Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia 2020

Cambodia, 2020

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Reference ID

KHM_2020_HBIST_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/gcnr-gw66

Producer(s)

World Bank

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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May 03, 2023

Last modified

May 03, 2023

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Identification

Survey ID number

KHM_2020_HBIST_v01_M

Title

Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia 2020

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Cambodia	KHM

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Abstract

This paper provides results from the randomized control trial project, Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia. One control and three treatment groups were assessed on how literacy and reading habits changed when households were provided a variety of high-quality and low-cost early reading materials along with varying degrees of encouragement toward building better reading habits. The findings show that providing books in isolation was not enough. Rather, books in conjunction with a network of reading supports was found to be an effective means to boost reading outcomes, including reading proficiency measures, frequency of reading, and attitudes toward reading. The results highlight the need for at-home reading materials in poor households as an integral step to improve early reading.

Unit of Analysis

Child

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Kampong Thom Province and Battambang provinces.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
World Bank

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Two questionnaires (caregiver and child were used to collect the survey data. Caregiver and child questionnaires have sets of common questions in across the different visits (baseline, house visit 2, house visit 3, and endline visit). However, there are some differences depending on the type of visits. There are two types of differences:

1. Unique questions which are asked in one of the visits, but not in the others. This is because as the time passed the questions to be asked needed to be complemented or were irrelevant.

2. Differences in how the question stems were formulated. This is due to the different timing of the visits when the time passed had to be accounted for. For example, in many cases the questions in the subsequent visits had phrases like “since I last saw you” or “in the last six months”.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End	Cycle
2020-06-01	2020-06-13	Baseline
2020-08-08	2020-08-26	Second House Visit
2020-10-15	2020-10-28	Third House Visit
2020-12-19	2020-12-30	End-line

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Michael F. Crawford	World Bank	mcrawford1@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_KHM_2020_HBIST_v01_M_WB

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Documentation of the survey

Date of Metadata Production

2023-04-24

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