Modelled Weighting and Data Fusion on Gender Mobile Pilot

Our procedure successfully corrected for problems of the representativeness of the SMS survey, especially when using a small amount of representative data to calibrate the estimates. FMT wants to further explore whether similar adjustments will allow us to make inferences about gender-specific outcomes—such as the social, economic, and health status of women and girls who are underrepresented in SMS surveys. In this project, Mathematica is working with FMT to apply our predictive model to women-specific outcomes in four countries in Africa and Asia: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Pakistan. The project's primary funders are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the MasterCard Foundation.