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Recall Length and Measurement Error in Agricultural Surveys

Wollburg, Philip Randolph - 2020

This paper assesses the relationship between the length of recall and nonrandom error in agricultural survey data. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania, the paper shows that key input and output variables...

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Varietal Identification in Household Surveys : Results from an Experiment Using DNA Fingerprinting of Sweet Potato Leaves in Southern Ethiopia

Kosmowski, Frédéric - 2018

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties have important nutritional differences and there is strong interest to identify nutritionally superior varieties for dissemination. In agricultural household surveys, this information is often collected based on the farmer's self-report. However, recent...

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From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies

Carletto, Calogero - 2020

Agricultural development is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus. There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries, (ii) agricultural data...

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Can Diaries Help Improve Agricultural Production Statistics? Evidence from Uganda

Deininger, Klaus - 2020

Although good and timely information on agricultural production is critical for policy-decisions, the quality of underlying data is often low and improving data quality could have a high payoff. This paper uses data from a production diary, administered concurrently with a standard household...

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Reliability of Recall in Agricultural Data

Beegle, Kathleen - 2020

Despite the importance of agriculture to economic development, and a vast accompanying literature on the subject, little research has been done on the quality of the underlying data. Due to survey logistics, agricultural data are usually collected by asking respondents to recall the details of...

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Collecting the Dirt on Soils : Advancements in Plot-Level Soil Testing and Implications for Agricultural Statistics

Carletto, Calogero; Aynekulu, Ermias; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2020

Much of the current analysis on agricultural productivity is hampered by the lack of consistent, high quality data on soil health and how it is changing under past and current management. Historically, plot-level statistics derived from household surveys have relied on subjective farmer...

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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real

Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …

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