Africa - African Cigarette Prices 2016-2019

Start	End	Cycle
2016	2019	All Rounds

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
For this project, the Data on Alcohol and Tobacco in Africa (DATA) Project organised for University of Cape Town students from different African countries to visit retail outlets and street vendors in their countries, where cigarettes were sold, and obtained permission to take photographs of cigarette prices, using their cellphones.

Fieldworkers working in the same areas were put in contact to avoid duplication of effort. As such, it is reasonable to assume that duplication was largely avoided and that a store being interviewed twice in one round occured quite rarely if at all. Students were somewhat self-governing in their choice of areas to visit and stores to gather data from. How the student groups covering an area divided up that area has not been well documented. As such, there may be georgraphic bias, for example against poorer areas that are more difficult to interview. This also means that a given interviewer might repeat whatever bias/mistakes they tend to make over all the rounds (if they remained on the project) making it hard to detect.

In some cases the same store (retailer/spaza shop/street vendor) was interviewed in more than one round of data collection.This means it is possible (in theory) for an analyst to create a panel of cigarette vendors. However, this requires using GPS locations which are only available in the secure (disclosive) verison of the data.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products	REEP	University of Cape Town
Economics of Tobacco Control Project (prior)	ETCP	University of Cape Town