Listing of Agricultural Households 2025

Guinea Bissau, 2025

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Reference ID

GNB_2025_LAH_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Producer(s)

General Directorate of Agricultural Planning (Direção Geral da Planificação Agrária)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 29, 2026

Last modified

Sep 29, 2026

Identification

Survey ID number

GNB_2025_LAH_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Title

Listing of Agricultural Households 2025

Abbreviation or Acronym

LAH 2025

Country

Name	Country code
Guinea-Bissau	GNB

Study type

Sample Frame, Households [sf/hh]

Abstract

The Agricultural Household Listing in Guinea-Bissau was conducted under the 50x2030 Initiative to establish an updated sampling frame for the country's programme of annual integrated agricultural surveys. The operation was undertaken in response to the absence of a recent and comprehensive frame of agricultural households; the most recent household listing was the 2009 Population and Housing Census which no longer reflected the current demographic and agricultural landscape.

The household listing aimed to identify and enumerate households within the selected enumeration areas, collect key information on their agricultural activities, and identify agricultural households eligible for inclusion in the agricultural survey programme. The resulting sampling frame provides the foundation for the selection of representative survey samples and contributes to the production of timely, high-quality agricultural statistics for monitoring national agricultural policies and international development frameworks, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union's Agenda 2063.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households, dwellings

Scope

Topics

Topic
Family farming
Crops
Livestock

Keywords

Family farming Crops Livestock

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The listing covers only rural areas and the data are representative at national and regional level.

Geographic Unit

Region, Sector (second geographic administrative level)

Universe

Agricultural households of Guinea-Bissau.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
General Directorate of Agricultural Planning (Direção Geral da Planificação Agrária)	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, MADR), Government of Guinea-Bissau

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	United Nations	Technical assistance
The 50x2030 initiative	FAO	Technical assistance

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name
Goverment of Guinea-Bissau

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The primary sampling units (Census Districts) selected for the listing were chosen using probability proportional to size (PPS), with the number of households serving as the measure of size. The selection was stratified by region. The distribution of the sample by region was as follows:

TOMBALI: 34; QUINARA: 29; OIO: 38; BIOMBO: 48; BOLAMA: 33; BAFATA: 41; GABU: 32; CACHEU: 64.

Response Rate

All Census District sampled were covered during the listing.

Weighting

pesos_ea: sampling weight of the primary sampling unit (Census Districts)

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The questionnaire of the listing is accessible in the Downloads section.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2025-08	2025-11

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face computer-assisted interviews [capi]

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation	Abbreviation
Directorate General for Agricultural Planning	Ministry in Charge of Agriculture (MADR), Government of Guinea-Bissau	DGPA

Control Operations

Data quality during the data collection phase was ensured through both field supervision and digital supervision. To this end, an error detection script was developed and run on a weekly basis, and instructions were regularly sent to enumerators to correct missing values and data inconsistencies. In addition, a dashboard was developed to monitor the progress of data collection. These quality control activities were carried out throughout the entire data collection period (from August to November 2025).

Data Collection Notes

A training of enumerators was conducted from 14 to 18 July 2025. The Portuguese version of the question was implemented for the data collection.

Data processing

Data Editing

The validation checks built into the data collection application, together with continuous monitoring of fieldwork, resulted in datasets with minimal data quality issues. The few remaining missing values were imputed either through logical deduction or using the median, as appropriate. In addition, households were assigned sequential numbers within each enumeration area to identify and eliminate false duplicates and to establish the second-stage sampling frame.

Data appraisal

Data Appraisal

To protect the confidentiality of survey respondents, Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) methods were applied to the microdata before dissemination. All direct identifiers were removed, and selected quasi-identifiers were anonymized using appropriate disclosure control techniques to minimize the risk of re-identification. These measures ensure that the released dataset complies with confidentiality requirements while preserving its usefulness for statistical analysis and research purposes.

access_policy

Access authority

Name	URL
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Confidentiality

Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required?	Confidentiality declaration text
yes	The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO

Access conditions

Micro datasets shall only be allowed for research and statistical purposes. Any user which requests access working for a commercial company will not be granted access to any micro dataset regardless of their specified purpose. Users requesting access to any datasets must agree to the following minimal conditions:

The micro dataset will only be used for statistical and/or research purposes;
Any results derived from the micro dataset will be used solely for reporting aggregated information, and not for any specific individual entities or data subjects;
The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO;
The micro dataset cannot be re-disseminated by users or shared with anyone other than the individuals that are granted access to the micro dataset by FAO.

Citation requirements

Listing of agricultural households, 2025, Direção Geral da Planificação Agrária (DGPA), Guinea-Bissau

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

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 Document ID

DDI_GNB_2025_LAH_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
General Directorate of Agricultural Planning (Direção Geral da Planificação Agrária)	DGPA	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, MADR), Government of Guinea-Bissau	Producer
Statistics Division	ESS	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Metadata adapted for FAM
Development Data Group	DECDG	World Bank Group	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (GNB_2025_LAH_v01_M_v01_A_ESS) published on FAO microdata repository (https://microdata.fao.org/index.php/catalog). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.

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