Abstract
Though household surveys have long been an established part of development practice and regularly used to gather data on poverty incidence and the range of associated indicators, they have not yet become a common tool of justice reform practitioners. This guide aims to be a practical starting point for integrating justice work and household data collection, targeted both towards justice practitioners interested in survey design, as well as survey researchers interested in incorporating justice questions into their work. It provides guidance on designing a survey, suggested topics and questions, and ideas to facilitate a constructive engagement in discussions around justice in development practice.
Highlights
It is not self-evident why one would one want to conduct a household survey that attempts to measure justice
Justice is an innately difficult issue to define (Sen 2009), let alone measure, and unlike some other concerns of development, such as vaccination rates, literacy levels, or household income, justice is inherently hard to ascertain through standardized, preformatted questions—such as those that constitute the core of Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys and other quantitative approaches
What should be expected from a household survey? What can it usefully do and what can it not do? While recognizing the valuable and distinctive information that can be discerned from a carefully designed household survey of justice issues, there are a number of ethical and practical questions to be considered before implementing such a survey
Summary
It is not self-evident why one would one want to conduct a household survey that attempts to measure justice. Initiatives such as the World Bank’s Justice for the Poor (J4P) program actively promote intensive, context-specific qualitative research as a means of better understanding justice in development, both in its own right and for the purpose of informing policy All this may make this guide seem somewhat unusual, especially compared with other work that focuses on developing household survey instruments to assess more orthodox topics (see, for example, Grosh and Glewwe 2000). We hope to bring two fields together: on one side, the raft of expertise (including in the World Bank) on the implementation of household surveys, and on the other, the coterie of practitioners and scholars ( both within and external to the World Bank) concerned with justice reform in developing countries These different groups of specialists, have infrequently come together to undertake good household justice surveys. We hope this guide can help bridge some of these differences by outlining an overview of professional perspectives and practices, encouraging greater collaboration by providing a concrete basis for doing so
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