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Social Media Data Sources in Africa: sources and methods
A practical guide to choosing evidence. This page does not publish an original dataset or measure market size.
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Choose a source that measures your question, record its publication date and reporting period, and keep definitions comparable. Mobile-money turnover, advertising reach, active accounts and paying customers measure different things. None is a measure of SMM-panel demand.
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- Africa; verify each country's inclusion
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What to consider for social media data sources in africa: sources and methods
- Record the original publisher, exact URL, reporting period and retrieval date.
- Keep accounts, people, advertising reach and transactions separate.
- Document sample limits and avoid attributing sales or income to purchased engagement.
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- Use columns for metric, value, unit, country, period, source URL, definition and limitation.
- Compare Africa and other regions on the same basis. Do not add overlapping country or platform populations.
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