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This paper discusses the findings of a project that analyzed whether mobile phone-based surveys are a feasible and cost-effective approach for gathering statistically representative information in low-income countries. In particular, the authors conducted surveys in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to answer this question and focused on three primary research questions: 1) Can mobile phone surveys provide a nationally representative sample for a survey? 2) To what extent do linguistic differences affect the ability to produce a representative sample? And 3) what impact does monetary compensation have on survey completion patterns?