Case study
A decision is never better than the data behind it. Everything starts with collection.
Paper questionnaires typed in three times, Excel files sent by email, free-text fields nobody can use: in many organisations, data degrades before it ever reaches a dashboard. We step in upstream, where it matters most.
Our teams design collection protocols, deploy offline mobile forms (ODK, KoboToolbox, custom apps), supervise field agents and run high-volume data entry with double checks. Every record is traced, validated and time-stamped.
The result: databases you can use immediately, processing times cut, and renewed trust in the figures you present to your board, your donors or your supervisory authorities.
- 99.5%accuracy with double entry
- ×3questionnaires processed per day
- 48 hto a first clean dataset
Our know-how
- 01
Collection design
Sampling plan, questionnaires, data dictionary and validation rules defined before the first interview.
- 02
Mobile & field collection
Offline forms, geolocation, photos and signatures, real-time supervision of field agents.
- 03
Data entry & digitisation
Double-blind entry, OCR and archive digitisation, large-scale form processing.
- 04
Quality control
Automatic consistency checks, verification samples, shared quality indicators.
Case studies
Context, solution, result: two representative assignments.
Context
A public administration ran an annual paper survey: six months of re-typing, transcription errors and results published too late to inform policy.
Solution
Offline digital questionnaire on tablets, built-in consistency rules, daily synchronisation and a supervision dashboard for 140 enumerators.
Result
Results available in 7 weeks instead of 6 months, inconsistency rate below 1%.
Context
Over 300,000 paper files, slow manual searches and a risk of losing original documents.
Solution
Digitisation pipeline, OCR, indexing with business metadata and controlled entry of key fields.
Result
Any file found in under 10 seconds, archives secured and backed up off-site.
Frequently asked questions
We work with ODK, KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO or custom applications when needed (offline operation, integration with your information system).
Yes. Our data-entry teams work double-blind with discrepancy arbitration, processing hundreds of thousands of forms with over 99% accuracy.
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