The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Tomlinson, Mark ^a,b   Solomon, Wesley ^b   Singh, Yages ^b   Doherty, Tanya ^b,c   Chopra, Mickey ^d   Ijumba, Petrida ^b   Tsai, Alexander C ^e   Jackson, Debra ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d UNICEF   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349103757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-51     Document Type: Article

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