With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in a specific topic, has gained considerable interest, due to its potential to extract a near real-time online signal about the current interest of a society. The objective of this study is to analyze whether search engine metadata in the form of Google Search Query (GSQ) data can be used to improve now-casts of maize prices in nine African countries, these are Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/can-one-improve-now-casts-crop-prices-africa-google-can
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Can one improve now-casts of crop.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/regine-weber
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/lukas-kornher
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/center-development-research-zef
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/crops
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maize
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/internet
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa