{"type":"survey","doc_desc":{"title":"Agriculture and Livestock Survey in A1 farms","idno":"DDI_ZWE_2015_AgLS_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency","abbreviation":"ZIMSTAT","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Economic Development","role":"Documentation of the study"},{"name":"Development Economics Data Group","abbreviation":"DECDG","affiliation":"The World Bank","role":"Review of the metadata"}],"prod_date":"2021-08-18","version_statement":{"version":"Version 02 (August 2021). Identical to a DDI published on Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) microdata catalog. Some of the metadata fields have been edited."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"ZWE_2015_AgLS_v01_M","title":"Agriculture and Livestock Survey - A1 Farms 2015","alt_title":"AgLS 2015"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Economic Development"}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Department for International Development","abbreviation":"DFID","role":"Financial assistance"},{"name":"Government of Zimbabwe","abbreviation":"Govt ZWE","role":"Financial assistance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"distributors":[{"name":"Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency","abbreviation":"Zimstat","affiliation":"","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Survey [ag\/oth]"},"study_info":{"abstract":"Agriculture and Livestock Survey collects data on agriculture production from A1 Farms.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2015","end":"2015","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Zimbabwe","abbreviation":"ZWE"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Plot holder","universe":"Agriculture holdings","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The 2015 Zimbabwe Agriculture and Livestock Survey - A1 Farms covered the following topics:\n- Household identification\n- Plot holder\/ lessee details\n- Details of area measurement for parcels and plots\n- Vehicles and farm machinery\/equipment\n- Timber sold, firewood, charcoal and coal used in plot\n- Transport costs\n- Post harvest"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"A register of A1 farms is used as the sampling frame for the selection of a sample of A1 farms. The sampling frame is stratified by province and district. Farms are selected from each stratum with probability proportional to size (PPS), the measure of size being the number of plot-holders in the farm.\n\nA complete listing of the plot-holders in the selected farms is carried out. The list of plot holders is used as the frame for the second-stage sampling, which is the selection of plot holders. The sample of plot-holders is selected by systematic random sampling.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"Four questionnaires (crop forecasting, capital formation, post-harvest, and transport and energy) were administered to collect the survey data."}}},"schematype":"survey","data_files":[],"variables":[],"variable_groups":[]}