I'm pleased to share an ebook that SocialCops has just released with the members of KM4DEV community.

In the last two years, we’ve helped over 150 partners — including BASF, Tata Trusts, Ministry of Rural Development (India) and NextBillion — collect over 20 million data points using our platform. In the process, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to collect high quality data to drive decision making.

We've curated our knowledge into an ebook, “The Ultimate Guide To Effective Data Collection”. You can download it here.

This 30-page guide contains everything you need to know to improve the way you collect data, including the basic building blocks of effective data collection:

• Frame your research question, outcomes and indicators
• Choose between 4 types of data collection methods
• Use (and even mix) qualitative and quantitative research
• Write purposeful questions to improve data quality
• Sample your population, with a simple sample size formula

We hope this ebook will be a useful resource for you. Feel free to forward it to anyone else who might find it useful. If you have feedback on this ebook, please let us know here.