How to Score Different Indicators in Your Life

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Men, women and children may map out and value things differently in your experience. One of the advantages of these methods is that if you convene people to do some matrix scoring they can get a longer list of indicators than expected. And for children, things emerge which otherwise would not have been recognized. For instance, dogs often come up as being a major problem for children, which adults don't recognize.

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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under what conditions should qualitative surveys be preferred over quantitative and vice versa? What is participatory mapping? How has the field of development changed over the last few decades? Why do people get taller when sanitation improves?

Robert Chambers is a British academic and development practitioner. He spent his academic career at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies. He has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute, and marginalized at the center of the processes of development policy since the 1980s. Learn more about him here.

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