<p>The World Bank Pilot Study for Crowd-Sourced Price Data Collection through Mobile Phones combined the need for high-frequency data, recent developments in information and communication technologies, and power of crowd. Crowd-sourced data are data collected and reported by the user community using information and communication technologies.</p>
<p>The objective of the pilot was to study the feasibility of crowd-sourced price data collection. Non-professional price collectors used personal computers and mobile phones for collecting data and entering it in a multilingual web microsite developed for the pilot. Price data was collected for thirty tightly specified food commodity items on a monthly basis for approximately six months in eight pilot countries. Non-professional price collectors received compensation in the form of airtime rewards.</p>
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Key fields
Organization:
WB
Agency Identifier:
Crowd-Sourced Price Collection
Dataset Type:
Time series
Access Level:
Public
Language:
Frequency:
No further updates planned
Date released:
22 Aug 2013
Date modified:
22 Aug 2013
Temporal Coverage:
30 Nov 1999
Geographical Coverage:
Bangladesh
Brazil
India
Indonesia
Kenya
Nigeria
Pakistan
Philippines (the)
Additional information
economycoverage:
EAP, IBRD, IDA, LAC, LMY, SAS, SSA
numberofeconomies:
8
updatefrequency:
No further updates planned
accessoption:
Bulk download
bulkdownload:
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