Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 2016, Baseline Survey
Burkina Faso, 2016
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BFA_2016_AGRA_v01_M
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 2016
Baseline Survey
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | BFA |
Agricultural Survey
The Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) is an organization that is at the forefront of agricultural intervention programs in Burkina Faso as well as in other sub-Saharan African countries, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Mozambique. Data for the first three countries is available from the ISSER ACEIR Data Hub. AGRA objectives are to increase farmer productivity through access to quality inputs, reduce post-harvest losses through access to post-harvest storage technologies and support farmers through an enabling policy environment. The Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) conducted a baseline survey of farmer households in five regions in Burkina Faso. Farmer households in Boucle de Mouhoun, Cascades, Centre-Est, Centre-Ouest and Hauts-Bassins were sampled to create baseline data of farming practices, yields, post-harvest loss and other features of the value chain in the cultivation of four major crop, namely maize, rice, sorghum and cowpea. The data seeks to help identify some key challenges to the production of these crops in the five regions and support the development and subsequent evaluation of AGRA interventions over the five-year period.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households and individuals
Version
Version 01: Edited dataset for public distribution.
2016
Scope
The survey collected the following data on:
- Households: demographic data and data on education and literacy of household members, household welfare (income, employment), food security, household assets, housing characteristics and access to credit and savings, women empowerment, time use, and women's dietary diversity.
- Agricultural: agricultural production and input access, plot characteristics and soil quality, farm labor, chemical use, awareness of hybrid/improved seed varieties and usage, agricultural mechanization, farmer based organizations' (fbos) membership, awareness and use of extension services and agronomic practices, crop yields and pre-harvest crop losses, post-harvest storage, crop sales, processing and market price.
Coverage
The study collected data from farmer households in five regions of Burkina Faso: Boucle de Mouhoun, Cascades, Centre-Est, Centre-Ouest, and Hauts-Bassins.
The data is at the level of District and Community.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research | University of Ghana |
Sampling
Quantitative and qualitative data collection occurred in both regions from 19 districts. The enumeration areas visited selected as per 2010 Census demarcations, to identify areas where rural households in the regions commonly grew the crops of interest. Based on existing and projected estimates for crop yields and crop losses in AGRA's business plan for Burkina Faso, the survey targeted a statistically acceptable sample size of 3,100 farm households.
A two stage sampling strategy employed to ascertain the needed sample size for the survey. In the first Stage (Primary Sampling), power calculations determined the number of clusters or enumeration areas (EAs,) required for the necessary size of power of at least 80%. It was determined that at least 15 farming households would be randomly selected from each of the 212 EAs to give the total sample of 3,180 households. We selected these clusters based on the distribution of the target crops across the regions and their districts, as provided by the AGRA country business plan. Sample size of 2,784 households, which increased to 3,202 to account for anticipated future attrition and difficulty accessing households or EAs during the initial baseline data collection.
Survey instrument
Two data collection instruments were employed to collect data for the qualitative baseline study. These are semi-structured interview and discussion guides. A questionnaire was then administered to randomly selected households for the quantitative interviews.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2016-11-21 | 2016-12-24 |
- Face-to-face [f2f]
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research | University of Ghana |
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana ACEIR Hub, ISSER | University of Ghana | www.isser.ug.edu.gh | joanakwawu@gmail.com |
Public access data, available to all
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research. Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 2016, Burkina Faso Baseline Survey [dataset]. Version 1. Accra: ISSER [producer], 2016. Accra: Ghana ACEIR Hub [distributor], 2021.
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI_BFA_2016_AGRA_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research | University of Ghana | Metadata creator |
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Metadata adapted for Microdata Library |
2021-11-09
Metadata version
Version 01: This metadata was downloaded from the DataFirst website (https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/central). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document and Survey ID.