Article

SQUEAC Prior building for Stage 3: Recognising uncertainty

This article explains in detail how to build a prior for stage 3 of the SQUEAC survey.

Publication date

1st January 2019

Author(s)

Action Against Hunger

Practitioners and participants of SQUEAC assessments will most likely have experienced some uncertainty when building a prior for conjugate analysis between Stages II and III of a SQUEAC assessment. The step represents a seed change from exhaustive collection and triangulated analysis of data. After forming and testing hypotheses about our understanding of programme coverage, Stage III now requires us to introduce probability and belief in preparation for a final coverage estimate. For more details, download the document below.