I had a couple of staff members who probably
each spend maybe 30% of their time.
And then maybe we might have one or
two people who are specifically working on the JMP.
>> Can anybody get access to the raw data?
>> Yes. It is all-
>> It is all up on the web.
>> It is all up on the web.
Yeah yeah.
>> So what about this next stage,
what do you think it's going to cost to do this, this phase three?
>> Phase three.
I think it's going to be huge because we are going to be challenging ourselves
to monitor far more difficult things and to monitor them better than we ever have.
So, let's just take water quality, for instance.
The DHS and MICS are exploring options for
including water quality testing in among their enumeration activities.
>> For a sample of households, or everybody in the survey?
>> No, for a sample of households.
You can imagine, this is going to be quite big.
>> It's going to add a level of complexity to To
the implementation of the surveys and then there's going to be complicated data
which will have to be analyzed in terms of what the water quality tests tell us.
So if we start doing that in every single country in the world, at a national level,
that's huge in terms of the data analysis burden.
>> Have you thought about adding spatial information so
you know exactly where the households are?
>> Yeah. >> Yeah
>> So and
there are things that are now available to us which of course 10,
15 years ago we didn't really dream of.
There may be ways of collecting information using mobile phones or
whatever that we haven't really thought of.
And yet at the same time we have to continuously apply the same sort
of standard of rigor that we've always tried to keep on the JMP.
A lot of data never makes it into the JMP.
If we find out about a household survey that has been implemented in the country,
we will go and look at it.
Is it truly nationally represented?
Is it a good quality?
And if it doesn't meet either of those criteria, it goes out and people
are constantly frustrated that they think that certain data should be in the JMP.
But it doesn't meet our standard for rigor.
So we don't put it in.
And I think the same is going to happen with my new data sources.
Is it's going to be very difficult to balance out our desperate need for
data against our desperate need for quality.
>> So just looking back over this sort of second phase of the JMP and
this new data, was there anything that surprised you that came out of it
that you really didn't know before, think something that kind of jumped out.
>> That came out of the consultations?
>> Well, came out of the data from the surveys.