Data base on household income

The deliverable constitutes a database containing the result of a household questionnaire survey in the GSME (task 5.1) aiming to quantify household reliance on selected tangible ecosystem services accompanied by a report describing the variables included in the database. UCPH and consortium partner institutions will in collaboration choose the survey sample. The sample selection strategy aims to represent relevant aspects of the diversity of biophysical and socioeconomic circumstances in the GSME and as far as possible ensure coordination of surveys undertaken by WPs across AfricanBioServices. UCPH will adjust the Poverty Environment Network survey instruments and data collection protocol to the study context and the objectives of quantifying household reliance on different income category sources including environmental goods. Adjustments include adding indicators of human health easily measurable in the field (conditional on obtaining National Medical Research Institute ethical clearance). UCPH, ILRI and TAWIRI will pilot test the questionnaires, and UCPH will adjust the questionnaires as relevant. UCPH, ILRI and TAWIRI will implement the household survey consisting of: 1) one village-level participatory wealth ranking, 2) two annual village-level questionnaires, 3) two annual household questionnaires, 4) four quarterly household interviews and 5) four field economic experiments. The sample will include 25 villages and approximately 1000 households depending on village and household commitment and attrition as well as aspects not under the control of the AfricanBioServices project. UCPH will develop data recording instruments including a database and a tablet-interphase enabling real-time data entry and uploading to a cloud, and write the description of variables that combined constitutes the deliverable.