Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghanaian Households: Survey Data
Working
papers based on the survey (please note that these are mostly highly
preliminary and subject to change):
- The Return to Capital in Ghana, Chris Udry and Santosh Anagol, February 2006, AER Papers and Proceedings.
- Addressing Unequal Economic Opportunities: A Case Study of Land Tenure in Ghana, Chris Udry and Markus Goldstein. Development Outreach, February 2006.
- The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana, November 2005, Chris Udry and Markus Goldstein.
- Institutions and Development: A View from Below, November 2005, Chris Udry and Rohini Pande.
- Households and the Social Organization of Consumption in Southern Ghana, November 2005, Chris Udry. Paper for presentation at the African Studies Association meetings, November 2005.
- Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana, July 2005 (revision of Economic Growth Center Working Paper 817), Chris Udry and Tim Conley.
- Social
Networks in Ghana, May 2004 (Economic
- Fieldwork, Economic Theory and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries, January 2003, Chris Udry. A somewhat less terse version that ignores the AER Papers and Proceedings restrictions.
- Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana, November 2000, Chris Udry and Tim Conley. Forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
- Gender and Land Resource Management in Southern Ghana, September 1999, Chris Udry and Markus Goldstein.
- Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghana, Chris Udry and Markus Goldstein. Here are the landscape figures and the portrait figures. This paper contains an overview of the data and the data collection process.
- Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana, Chris Udry and Tim Conley.
- 'Chop Time, No Friends': Intrahousehold and Individual Insurance Mechanisms in Southern Ghana, Markus Goldstein
- Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana, November 2000, with Tim Conley. Forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The survey modules were administered according to this schedule. Here are some pictures from the area.
The "Code Books + Questionnaires" column contains pdf reproductions of the relevant survey instruments, and files describing the data and response coding. The "Raw Data + Programs" column contains raw data from the survey in Paradox for Windows (version 4.5) format, along with the Stata programs that translate that data into Stata format and correct the typographical and coding errors in the raw data. The "Final Data" column contains the corrected data in Stata format.
Complete Data Archive:
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Round 1 |
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Asset Holdings |
AssetRaw1.zip
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Round 2 |
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Gifts,
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Trading
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Round 3 |
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Farming Information, Round 3 |
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Other Income, Round 3 |
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Round 4 |
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Expenditure |
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Round 5 |
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Gifts,
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Family
Background, Round 5 |
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Plot List,
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Round 6 |
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Plot Status |
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Farm
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Plot
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Round 7 |
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Household
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Other
Income, Round 7 |
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Round 8 |
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Expenditure |
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Plot
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Round 9 |
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Time Allocation |
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Asset Holdings |
AssetRaw9.zip
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Plot List,
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Round
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Marriage,
Round 10 |
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Plot
Ranking, Round 10 |
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Agricultural
Learning, Round 10 |
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Round
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Gifts,
Round 11 |
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Events,
Round 11 |
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Round 12 |
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Expenditure |
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Round 13 |
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Other
Income, Round 13 |
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Marriage,
Round 13 |
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Permanent
Labor, Round 13 |
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Round 14 |
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Learning version 2 |
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Time Allocation |
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Gifts,
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Round 15 |
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Household
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Plot wrap up |
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Asset Holdings |
AssetRaw15.zip
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Trading
Stocks, Round 15 |
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Events,
Round 15 |
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Multiple Rounds |
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Soil Data |
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Plot Activity Data |
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Sales Data |
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Borrowing
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Lending
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Sales from
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Work on
Spouse's Plot Data |
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Permanent
Individual Roster |
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Added
Plots |
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Discontinued
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Marital
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| Plot Questionnaire | plotquesques.zip | plotquesraw.zip | plotquesfin.zip |
The research project which has generated these data is
supported by NSF grants 9617694 and 0079115, and by the International Food
Policy Research Institute, the World Bank Research Committee, the Social
Science Research Council, the Fulbright program,
The actual work to collect these data was provided by:
Ernest Appiah, field supervisor
Robert Ernest Afedoe, enumerator
Patrick Selorm Amihere, enumerator
Esther Aku Sarquah, enumerator
Kwabena Moses Agyapong, enumerator
Esther Nana Yaa Adofo, enumerator
Michael Kwame Arhin, enumerator
Margaret Harriet Yeboah, enumerator
Issac Yaw Omane, enumerator
Peter Ansong-Manu, enumerator
Ishmaelina Borde-Koufie, enumerator
Owusu Frank Abora, enumerator
Rita Allotey, enumerator
Aima Oforiwa Adinku, data entry
Stella Anim-Koranteng, data entry
Ruby Ofori, data entry