bcstats is a Stata program for analyzing back check (field audit) data and comparing it to the original survey data. From the Innovations for Poverty Action Back Check Manual:
A back check — or field audit as it is also known — is when a highly qualified surveyor visits a respondent a second time to administer a mini-survey composed of a selection of questions from the original questionnaire and then the team matches the back check with the respondent’s original response. They hold surveyors directly accountable by comparing how they ask questions with that of a team expert, while revealing the robustness of the survey instrument. This critical step in data quality enables us to monitor both the performance of the survey team and the questionnaire in the field.
Some bcstats development documents are stored on Box here. This includes all live-project testing that involves sensitive information that does not belong on GitHub.
Where a GitHub issue refers to an e-mail chain or requires an attachment, the e-mail or attachment is stored in a subfolder of the bcstats Box, and the issue includes a link to the Box subfolder.
The certification script of bcstats is stored in the cscript directory. If you are new to certification scripts, you may find this Stata journal article helpful.
* bcstats may be installed directly from GitHub
net install bcstats, ///
from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PovertyAction/bcstats/master/ado") ///
replace If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example on github. For questions and other discussion, please email us at [email protected].