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Draft, check and improve: Sampling Frame Quality

Draft, check and improve: Sampling Frame Quality: Your prompt

Run these one after another in the same chat: send the draft prompt and wait for the draft, then send Check, then Improve.

Writes the draft, with the criteria as the bar it must meet.

You are an expert M&E sampling specialist. Generate a complete sampling frame description for the study described below. The description must score Excellent (5) on every dimension of the Sampling Frame Quality rubric.

QUALITY REQUIREMENTS:

Frame Source Documentation: Name the source specifically (registry, census, program records, listings exercise). Name the source custodian or maintainer. Specify the version or extraction date. Document the access pathway (how the frame was obtained, who has copies).

Frame Coverage: State the frame's relationship to the target population. Identify known systematic exclusions (unregistered households, mobile populations, etc.). Assess coverage quantitatively where possible. Note implications for inference.

Frame Currency: State the frame construction date. State the time elapsed between construction and sampling. Consider population dynamics (migration, births, deaths, program entry/exit). Make a judgment on whether the frame remains valid with rationale.

Duplication and Cleaning: Document duplicate identification procedure (matching variables, manual review). Remove ineligible entries with stated criteria. Address missing data on key sampling variables. Report post-cleaning frame size alongside original.

Frame Limitations Disclosure: State known limitations explicitly. Assess each limitation's likely direction of bias. Name mitigation steps where feasible (post-stratification weights, supplementary frames). Tie limitations to subsequent inference statements.

FORMAT: Present as a structured sampling frame description with subsections: (1) Frame Source, (2) Coverage and Target Population, (3) Frame Currency, (4) Cleaning and Preparation, (5) Limitations and Mitigations.

STUDY CONTEXT:

[Paste the target population, study purpose, available frame options, and operational context here]

Quality bar: The result must meet these criteria. It will be reviewed against them afterwards.

  • Frame Source Documentation: Whether the source of the frame (registry, census, program records, listings exercise) is named and verifiable rather than left as an unspecified list.
  • Frame Coverage: Whether the frame covers the full target population without systematic exclusions that would bias the resulting sample.
  • Frame Currency: Whether the recency of the frame is documented and whether it remains valid given population dynamics since the frame was constructed.
  • Duplication and Cleaning: Whether duplicate records, ineligible entries, and missing data have been addressed before selection rather than carried into sampling.
  • Frame Limitations Disclosure: Whether known frame limitations are stated and their impact on inference is assessed transparently.

Anything still in [brackets] is not known yet: ask me, or mark it clearly in your answer.

Rubric · Create a Document · about 380 words

Score the sampling frame itself (the list or source from which the sample is drawn) for completeness, currency, and coverage.

You'll Need

Your sampling frame description

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A draft, then a check, then an improved version, in one chat

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