Household Data Ghana Upper East 2011-2012

The dataset consists of socio-economic data obtained from the survey of 409 farm households in the Bongo, Kassena Nankana East and Kassena Nankana West Districts in Upper East Ghana. It also includes constructed data from the main dataset for the analysis of the drivers and impacts of farmer innovation. A description of all the variables in the data is also included.

Date (Publication): 2014-10-08

Purpose: Data was collected under WASCAL project Work Package 3.3 for a PhD dissertation on the drivers and impacts of farmer innovation in rural Ghana.

Credit: The author gratefully acknowledges the following assistants: George Anamoo, John Abugre, Prosper Atanga, Eric Asampaana, Patrick Atura, Cosmas Asaah,Francis Sadongo, Henry Ayamba, Oswald Bataki, Simon Chanagia, Francis Akaachube and Esther Agumah

Status: Completed

Author

Center for Development Research, Department for Economic and Technological Change (ZEF b) - Justice Akpene Tambo ( Junior Researcher )

Walter-Flex-Straße 3 , Bonn , 53113 , Germany

http://www.zef.de

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

household
income
innovation

Theme

food security
nutrition security
climate shocks

Region

Ghana

Place

Upper East
Bongo
Kassena Nankana East
Kassena Nankana West

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: Personal sensitive data. Only to be used for research. Accessible by WASCAL members only after contacting the author.

Terms of Use:

- The data must not be re-distributed to by the Data Provider unauthorized persons;

- Derivations must meet the data privacy protection demands as outlined in the WASCAL-DSP;

- If a scientific publication is made based on the Data, a copy of the manuscript or abstract shall be sent to the Data Provider not less than forty-five (45) days prior to the date of the publication;

- If publication results from using the Data, the Receiving Party agrees to acknowledge the Data Provider and/or give credit to the Data Provider, or, as scientifically appropriate, provide co-authorship to the Data Provider based on any direct contribution they may make to the research.

Citation:

Tambo, J. A. (2014): Household Data Ghana Upper East 2011-2012. https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=b19542ad-42a7-4dd0-831a-7741a602b212

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Farming

Begin date: 2011-12-01

End date: 2012-05-31

Supplemental Information: Parameters are described in a separate table (WSC_SocEcon_Household-Variable-Description_Ghana-UpperEast_2011-2012)

Distribution format

Comma Seperated Values ( n.n. )

Distributor

Distributor

- Justice Akpene Tambo ( )

Ordering instructions: Contact distributor via email to get access permission.

OnLine resource: WSC_SocEcon_Household_Ghana-UpperEast_2011-2012.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Household masterdata, aggregated data and variable description

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Data was obtained using pre-tested questionnaire. The enumerators were supervised by the researcher to ensure quality of data obtained. Data was constructed from the main dataset for statistical and econometric analyses. Final data was cleaned and checked for quality.

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