Survey Bank

Welcome to the beta version of the J-PAL Survey Bank! Its goal is to make the survey instruments used across J-PAL projects more findable and usable by staff and researchers in the network. It contains two parts:

A project-level database:

• Each row is a J-PAL project that has available survey instruments. 

• You can filter by fields like Country, Year, Respondent Type, and Module; click the ⊕ See more to expand the row and see information on each of the instruments available for that project. 

• Use this if you want quick access to full instruments used in projects fitting your criteria. 

• The questionnaires and modules available in the database reflect the projects that we have imported thus far. As we continue importing projects, additional modules will become available. 

• The Copy and CSV buttons allow you to copy and export project information based on the filters you have selected.

• Please note that some questionnaire links are currently unavailable due to a bug (fix in progress). You can access those questionnaires by searching for the file name or project on the J-PAL Dataverse. 

• Find the database below!

A question-level database:

• Each row is a question from one of the survey instruments found in the project-level database. 

• You can filter by fields like the language of the question, the broad topic of the question, the respondent type, and more. There are two search boxes, one for a strict search that only returns questions that have the search term in them, as well as one for an AI-powered fuzzy search that allows you to search by similarity of underlying concept. 

• Click the ⊕ to expand the row and see information on the question's answer choices, its place in the survey, and broad information on the question's project and survey instrument.

• Use this if you want to get motivation for specific questions within a topic, or explore how other projects have asked similar questions.

• Access the database here.

Note: This is the beta version of the survey bank. If you notice anything off or would like to provide feedback on potential improvements, please reach out to data@povertyactionlab.org.