World Bank Income and Social Assistance Targeting Evaluation Survey

The survey that tested whether Greece's guaranteed minimum income was reaching the people it was designed for.

Scale

2,500 households, 500 of them recipients of the Social Solidarity Income

Reach

Greece, nationwide

Duration

8.5 months, June 2017 to February 2018

Team

Not recorded

Effort

117 professional staff-months

Client

The World Bank Group

Our role

Prime contractor

Period

June 2017 to February 2018

Geography

Greece, nationwide

Population

Greek households, with an oversample of poor households and of Social Solidarity Income beneficiaries

Mode and platform

Face-to-face CAPI, Survey Solutions

Languages

Greek

Quality standard

Sampling weights designed so that analysis including the oversampled groups remains representative at population level. Fortnightly fieldwork reports covering challenges, household replacements, quality control results, households re-interviewed by supervisors and staff replacements.

What the data fed

The assessment of the Social Solidarity Income programme's targeting design and implementation, and of its effect on poverty, labour market outcomes and other welfare indicators

Scope of our work

✓ Sampling frame✓ Sample design✓ Questionnaire and translation✓ Programming and testing✓ Pilot✓ Recruitment and training✓ Fieldwork✓ Monitoring✓ Back-checks and quality control✓ Data cleaning and weighting✓ Delivery✓ Reporting and dissemination

Results

2,500 household interviews delivered with documentation for data usability, on a sampling design built to be representative of Greek households, to oversample the poor, and to be separately representative of programme beneficiaries.