Know East Africa's Cross-border Traders
Leverage behavioural data from multiple mobile-based trade and market information services on both sides of the borders between Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Our networked data pool is a rich resource for understanding the cross-border trade environment:
- What are cross-border traders’ dominant value-chains?
- How does trade behaviour differ across gender, age and/or education level?
- How do cross-border trade patterns change over time?
- Which currencies do cross-border traders’ exchange?
Demographic, market, and trade insights for East Africa's cross-border traders
Cross-border trade is notoriously difficult to sample by traditional methods. We provide near-realtime crowdsourced data to enrich analyst's understanding of East Africa's cross-border trade environment.
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Realtime innovative data from Sauti's systems-based sampling approaches
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