Household surveys and quantitative studies

The Survey Division of ESA Consultores is one of the most experienced quantitative investigation organizations in the Central American region. We have in our full-time staff experts in sampling, fieldwork quality supervision and control, and database management. We have the infrastructure, hardware and software, the experience, and all the logistics necessary to carry out large-scale surveys.

Among the survey and census work carried out by ESA Consultores are the following: a census of 75,000 homes in 70 municipalities as part of the targeting exercise of the Honduran government's Family Allowance Program (PRAF), and more than 20 large surveys, with samples up to 6,000 and using complicated questionnaires that have included, among others, anthropometrical components and the physical measurement of soil chemistry. Several of these studies have been implemented in cooperation with institutions internationally renowned for high quality quantitative research, such as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Universities of Wisconsin and Wageningen.

A particular area of our expertise in survey work is that of contingent valuation surveys, which we have conducted in 12 cities in seven different countries for the World Bank and the IDB, along with the concomitant econometric analysis required to determine willingness to pay for public goods and services in the populations studied. Other surveys conducted by ESA have included: a national census of micro enterprises in Honduras, and three apparel industry employee surveys for USAID; a KAP survey (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) of health services in Honduras for the Japanese cooperation, JICA; surveys of health and education employees for the IDB, agrarian surveys for the Universities of Wageningen and Wisconsin; surveys for the social evaluation of improvement projects in low income neighborhoods in Caracas, Managua and Guatemala for the World Bank and a survey for the Ex-post evaluation of the Honduran Fund of Social Investment for the World Bank. We also have an installed capacity in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including georeferenced resources on socioeconomic and environmental conditions in Honduras, based on ARC VIEW and CAD.