Methodology

AidData TUFF Coder Instructions, Version 1.3

Date Published

Oct 9, 2017

Authors

Austin M. Strange, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks

Publisher

Citation

Strange, Austin, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks. 2017. Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF) Coder Instructions, Version 1.3. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary.

Abstract

This document provides detailed instructions to AidData Research Assistants as they collect and verify project-level data using the Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology. Users can also refer to this document to get detailed information on how researchers comb through sources, triangulate information, and classify projects to create a final TUFF dataset.

For a full list of methodologies, see Research Methods.

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Associate Director, Chinese Development Finance Program

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Bradley C. Parks

Executive Director

Austin Strange

Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

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