An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households

Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in so...

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Published inScientific data Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 160020
Main Authors Waha, Katharina, Zipf, Birgit, Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep, Hassan, Rashid M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 24.05.2016
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects
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Africa
Agriculture
Climate
Data Descriptor
Family Characteristics
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
multidisciplinary
Science
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Households were chosen randomly in districts that are representative for key agro-climatic zones and farming systems. The data set specifies farming systems characteristics that can help inform about the importance of each system for a country’s agricultural production and its ability to cope with short- and long-term climate changes or extreme weather events. Further it informs about the location of smallholders and vulnerable systems and permits benchmarking agricultural systems characteristics. Design Type(s) observation design • parallel group design Measurement Type(s) Agriculture Technology Type(s) survey method Factor Type(s) Sample Characteristic(s) Burkina Faso • Cameroon • Egypt • Ethiopia • Ghana • Kenya • Niger • Senegal • South Africa • Zambia • Zimbabwe • cultivated environment Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)
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K.W. designed and drafted the article, prepared Supplementary File 1 and collected information for Supplementary File 2. K.W. and B.Z. generated and tested CEEPASurvey.dta and CEEPASurvey.txt. B.Z. revised the drafted article, co-wrote the final article, prepared the files Questionnaire.pdf and AdaptationCoding.pdf for submission and contributed to Supplementary File 2. P.K. and R.M.H. coordinated the country teams conducting the interviews, were responsible for data collection in the World Bank/GEF project, helped processing the data and revised the article. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Development Programme.
ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.20