Consolidated Sub-national Crop Production Data for Harmonized Admin Units in West-Africa, 1984-2010 (based on various sources)

Time series for agricultural production statistics at sub-national level come with heterogeneous definitions for agric.production activities and with changing administrative units over time. Also, the availability of data is usually better for higher administrative levels (e.g. regions are better covered than districts). To generate consolidated time-series, it was necessary to define a harmonized classification for statistical units (WASU), which combines official admin units into comparable and time-invariant groups. Available information for all levels was fed into a consolidation process that ensured consistency across admin levels and accounted for obvious outliers(e.g.yields 10 times larger that in other years or comparable regions).

Date (Publication): 2016-06-07T00:00:00

Presentation form: Digital table

Status: Completed

Author

- Marc Müller ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

crop production
harvest
yield (agricultural)
economy

Theme

Region

Benin
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Togo

Place

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: This data is licensed under ODC Open Database License (ODbL) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

Citation:

Müller, M. (2016): Consolidated Sub-national Crop Production Data for Harmonized Admin Units in West-Africa, 1984-2010 (combined from various sources). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=540cd686-c557-4581-905a-088139d5281d

Aggregate Datasetindentifier: ea23ce21-724b-4d8c-9c62-ffd521e0c4c1

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Economy

Begin date: 1984-01-01

End date: 2010-12-31

Supplemental Information: Table attributes

WASUCode

WAGRCode

ElementCode

Year

Value

Distribution format

text - tab-separated values (tsv) ( 1 )

Distributor

Distributor

WASCAL -

OnLine resource: Econ_Agri_ConsProdDat_WASU_Subnational_1984_2010.tsv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
File to download

Protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Generating long and comparable time series for agric.production in the admin. units relevant for WASCAL required substantial processing of statistical data. The combination of statistics is provided in:

The Consolidation of these statistics was done based on a variant of the highest-posterior density estimator proposed by Heckelei et al 2008