Rwanda - Agricultural Household Survey 2017

Version 0.1 Edited anonymized dataset for public use

2017-07-28

Data collection consists of two distinct phases: The first Phase, known as Listing of households, consists of visiting all sampled segments and after identifying a dwelling (household) enumerators through reading the definition of household to the household head, identify the number of households in that dwelling record the information on household's main activity whereby each household was asked if there is at least one household member who was engaged in cropping or/ and livestock during the agricultural year 2016/2017.the second phase consists of visiting agricultural household from listing, all of them were interviewed and records were taken using survey instruments.In this phase each sampled agricultural household is requested to provide information related to socio-economic characteristics of agricultural households, crop production, use of agricultural production, awareness of agriculture technology, government policies and programs, access to inputs, access to finance, agricultural assets and livestock numbers.

For AHS 2017 NISR employed 200 field workers 168 enumerators, 23 Team leaders at district level, 7 regional supervisors and 3 data editors. Training was provided to all fieldwork personnel on the data collection methodologies associated with the use of GPS household location and computer tablet questionnaires used for data collection. The computer assisted personal interviewing data collection method allowed for very fast and efficient uploading and transfer of the enumerated data from the field to NISR headquarters for processing. The tablet software instruments (electronic version of the paper questionnaires) allowed for instantaneous checking of the respondent data and automatically directed the enumerator questioning to reduce non-sampling errors within the data collection.

Agriculture statistics are useful for monitoring progress on agriculture programs and policies in Rwanda. The government of Rwanda needs updated information on agricultural household in order to assist in addressing key agricultural issues and information needs that will inform policy makers and other stakeholders and allow more effective identification of priority intervention needs and to facilitate evidence-based decision making for the development of Agriculture sector.

Sample survey data [ssd]

This seasonal agriculture survey focused on the following units of analysis: Agricultural Households for both household and individual level.