Questionnaires
The questionnaire was a structured questionnaire written in English. It was designed in tabular form and some in question type format. The data items/variables in the questionnaire were based on the previous questionnaires with some modifications and additions. This questionnaire focused on costs and retuns structure of palay production by farm type further disaggregated by seed class/type covering the last completed normal cropping within the one year reference period (July 2004 to June 2005) and regardless of season.
The questionnaire was pre-tested and reviewed before its implementation.
The questionnaire consisted of 9 pages covering 12 blocks as follows:
A. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION includes the location of the sample farmer such as the name of the region, province, city/municipality, barangay and its classification.
B. SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION includes the name, age, farming experience and educational attainment of the sample farmer and name of respondent.
C. BASIC FARM CHARACTERISTICS such as total farm area and palay area, usual number of croppings per year, type and class and variety of palay seeds planted, source of seeds, type of palay farm, tenurial status, major source of irrigation, month and area planted and harvested.
D. FARM INVESTMENTS include inventory of farm investments used, year and cost of acquisition, repairs and improvement cost, estimated life and percent of use in palay farm
E. MATERIAL INPUTS such as usage and cost of seeds, fertilizers, soil ameliorants, insecticides, herbicides/weedicides, fungicides, rodenticides and molluscicides.
F. LABOR INPUTS such as labor utilization (in terms of mandays) and labor cost by type of farming activity, by source of labor and by sex and food cost incurred
G. OTHER PRODUCTION COSTS covers cash and non-cash payments for land tax, land lease/rental, rental value of owned land, rentals of machine and animals, fuel and oil, transport costs of inputs, irrigation fee, interest payment on crop loans and other production costs.
H. PRODUCTION AND DISPOSITION such as volume of palay production and its disposition in terms of sold, harvesters' share, threshers' share, other laborers' share, landowners' share, lease/rental, for home consumption, given away, used/to be used for seeds and for feeds, irrigation fee, wastage and other purposes.
I. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED such as problems affecting production and production losses
J. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PALAY PRODUCTION
K. OTHER INFORMATIONS ON HYBRID AND INBRED SEEDS USAGE include the years of planting hybrid seeds, variety used, area harvested, volume of production, reasons for shift from hybrid to inbred seeds
L. DATA COLLECTOR/EDITORS/PASO PARTICULARS contain the name of data collector, field supervisor, editor and PASO and CO editor and encoder.
The questionnaire is provided as External Resource.