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CGAP Smallholder Household Survey 2016, Building the Evidence Base on the Agricultural and Financial Lives of Smallholder Households

Tanzania, 2016
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    Survey ID number

    TZA_2016_SHS_v01_M

    Title

    CGAP Smallholder Household Survey 2016

    Subtitle

    Building the Evidence Base on the Agricultural and Financial Lives of Smallholder Households

    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Tanzania TZA
    Study type

    Other Household Survey

    Series Information

    Advancing its earlier global segmentation framework (Christen and Anderson 2013), CGAP has been working to build the evidence base on the financial and agricultural lives of smallholder households. This nationally-representative survey of smallholder households collected information on household demographics, poverty status, agricultural activities, income sources and expenses, mobile phones, and informal and formal financial services. The data was used to detail a national picture of the smallholder sector and identify the characteristics of its key segments in a segmentation analysis. To date, CGAP has smallholder household surveys completed or underway in Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, and Bangladesh.

    Abstract
    The objectives of the Smallholder Household Survey in Tanzania were to:
    • Generate a clear picture of the smallholder sector at the national level, including household demographics, agricultural profile, and poverty status and market relationships;
    • Segment smallholder households in Tanzania according to the most compelling variables that emerge;
    • Characterize the demand for financial services in each segment, focusing on customer needs, attitudes and perceptions related to both agricultural and financial services; and,
    • Detail how the financial needs of each segment are currently met, with both informal and formal services, and where there may be promising opportunities to add value.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households and individual household members

    Version

    Version Description

    Version

    Version Date

    2016-05-19

    Scope

    Notes

    The CGAP national surveys of smallholder households used three questionnaires: (1) household questionnaire, (2) multiple respondent questionnaire, and (3) single respondent questionnaire.

    1. Household questionnaire
      Respondent: Head of the household, their spouse, or a knowledgeable adult - Content: Basic information on all household members (e.g. age, gender, education attainment, schooling status) and information about household assets and dwelling characteristics in order to derive poverty status.

    2. Multiple respondent questionnaire
      Respondents: All household members over 15 years old who contributed to the household income and/or participated in its agricultural activities - Content: Demographics (e.g. land size, crop and livestock, decision-making, associations and markets, financial behaviors), agricultural activities (e.g. selling, trading, consuming crops, livestock, suppliers), and household economics (e.g., employment, income sources, expenses, shocks, borrowing, saving habits, investments).

    3. Single respondent questionnaire
      Respondent: One randomly-selected adult in the household - Content: Agricultural activities (e.g. market relationships, storage, risk mitigation), household economics (e.g. expense prioritization, insurance, financial outlook), mobile phones (e.g., usage, access, ownership, desire and importance), and formal and informal financial tools (e.g., ownership, usage, access, importance, attitudes toward financial service providers).

    The questionnaires were translated into Kiswahili and then pretested. After the pretest, debriefing sessions were held with the pretest field staff and the questionnaires were modified based on the observations from the pretest. After the questionnaires were finalized, a script was developed to support data collection on mobile phones. The script was tested and validated before it was used in the field.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Universe

    The universe for the survey consists of smallholder households defined as households with the following criteria:

    1. Household with up to 5 hectares OR farmers who have less than 50 heads of cattle, 100 goats/sheep/pigs, or 1,000 chickens; AND
    2. Agriculture provides a meaningful contribution to the household livelihood, income, or consumption.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Jamie Anderson The World Bank (GFMGP - CGAP)
    Producers
    Name
    InterMedia Survey Institute
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Role
    LSMS Team Knowledge exchange
    Tanzania Bureau of Statistics Technical assistance in sampling selection
    IPSOS Taznania Technical assistance in data collection and data processing

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The smallholder household survey in Tanzania is a nationally representative survey with a target sample size of 3,000 smallholder households. The sample was designed to provide reliable survey estimates at the national level.

    Sampling Frame. The sampling frame is the list of enumeration areas (EAs) containing agricultural households. These EAs were created in preparation for the 2012 population and housing census. The census questionnaire included a question on whether any household member operated any land for agricultural purposes during the 2011–2012 agricultural year. The information collected helped to identify agricultural households during the census.

    Sample allocation and selection. For the sample allocation, regions were combined into the following zones:
    • Border: Ruvuma, Iringa, Mbeya, Rukwa, and Kigoma
    • Coastal: Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Lindi, and Mtwara
    • Inland: Dodoma, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Morogoro, Singida, Tabora, Manyara, Njombe, and Katavi
    • Lake: Shinyanga, Kagera, Mwanza, Mara, Simiyu, and Geita
    • Zanzibar: all regions

    To take nonresponse into account, the target sample size was increased to 3,158 households assuming a nonresponse rate of 5 percent observed in similar national household surveys. The total sample size was first allocated to the zones in proportion to the number of agricultural households in the sampling frame. Within each zone, the resulting sample was then distributed to urban and rural areas in proportion to number of agricultural households.

    Given that EAs were the primary sampling units and 15 households were selected in each EA, a total of 212 EAs were selected.

    The sample for the smallholder survey is a stratified multistage sample. Stratification was achieved by separating each zone into urban and rural areas. The urban/rural classification is based on the 2012 population census. Therefore, 10 strata were created, and the sample was selected independently in each stratum.

    In the first stage, EAs were selected as primary sampling units with probability proportional to size, the size being the number of agricultural households in the EAs. A household listing operation was conducted in all selected EAs to identify smallholder households and to provide a frame for selecting smallholder households to be included in the sample. In the second stage, 15 smallholders were sampled in each EA with equal probability.

    In each sampled household, the household questionnaire was administered to the head of the household, the spouse, or any knowledgeable adult household member to collect information about household characteristics. The multiple respondent questionnaire was administered to all adult members in each sampled household to collect information on their agricultural activities, financial behaviors, and mobile money use. In addition, in each sampled household only one household member was selected using the Kish grid and was administered the single respondent questionnaire.

    The full description of the sample design can be found in the user guide for this data set.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    The smallholder survey in Tanzania is the third survey in the series, following the surveys in Mozambique and Uganda. Fieldwork in those two countries experienced a lot of failed call backs where identified eligible households and household members could not be interviewed during the time allocated to fieldwork in each country. As a result, the final sample size fell slightly short of the target. For this reason, in Tanzania the number of households selected in each EA was increased from 15 to 17 following the household listing operation in all sampled EAs.

    Response Rate

    The tables in the user guide to this data set show household and individual response rates for the Tanzania smallholder household survey. A total of 3,503 households was selected for the survey, of which 3,020 were found to be occupied during data collection. Of these, 2,993 were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 99.1 percent.

    In the interviewed households 5,935 eligible household members were identified for the Multiple Respondent questionnaire. Interviews were completed with 5,034 eligible household members, yielding a response rate of 84.8 percent for the Multiple Respondent questionnaire.

    Among the 2,993 eligible household members selected for the Single Respondent questionnaire, 2,795 were successfully interviewed a response rate of 93.4 percent.

    Weighting

    The sample for the smallholder household survey is not self-weighting, therefore sampling weights were calculated. The first component of the weights is the design weight based on the probability of selection for each stage of selection. The second component uses the response rates at both household and individual levels.

    The design weights for households were adjusted for nonresponse at the household level to produce adjusted household weights. Sampling weights for the multiple respondent data file were derived from adjusted household weights by applying to them non-response rates at the individual level. For the single respondent data file, the same process was applied after taking into account the subsampling done within the household.

    Finally, household and individual sampling weights were normalized separately at the national level so the weighted number of cases equals the total sample size. The normalized sampling weights were attached to the different data files and used during analysis.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    To capture the complexity of smallholder households, the smallholder household survey was divided into three questionnaires: the Household questionnaire, the Multiple Respondent questionnaire, and the Single respondent questionnaire. It was designed in this way to capture the complete portrait of the smallholder household, as some members of the household may work on other agricultural activities independently and without the knowledge of others.

    The household questionnaire collected information on the following:
    • Basic household members’ individual characteristics (age, gender, education attainment, schooling status, relationship with the household head).
    • Whether each household member contributes to the household income or participates in the household’s agricultural activities. This information was later used to identify all household members eligible for the other two questionnaires.
    • Household assets and dwelling characteristics.

    Both the Multiple and Single Respondent questionnaires collected different information on the following:
    • Agricultural practices—farm information such as size, crop types, livestock, decision-making, farming association, and markets.
    • Household economics—employment, income, expenses, shocks, borrowing and saving habits, and investments.

    The Single respondent questionnaire collected the following information:
    • Mobile phones—attitudes toward phones, use, access, ownership, desire, and importance.
    • Financial services—attitudes toward financial products and services such as banking and mobile money, including ownership, usage, access and importance.

    The questionnaires were translated into Kiswahili and then pretested. After the pretest, debriefing sessions were held with the pretest field staff and the questionnaires were modified based on the observations from the pretest. After the questionnaires were finalized, a script was developed to support data collection on mobile phones. The script was tested and validated before it was use in the field.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2016-02-06 2016-03-08
    Data Collectors
    Name
    IPSOS Tanzania
    Supervision

    InterMedia’s local field partner recruited interviewers and supervisors. In addition five independent field quality control staff were directly hired by InterMedia. Each team consisted of one supervisor and 4- 5 interviewers. Four staff members from InterMedia’s local field partner coordinated and supervised fieldwork activities and the independent quality control (QC) team hired by InterMedia oversaw the overall quality function of data collection. The QC team stayed with the survey teams during fieldwork to closely supervise and monitor them.

    Data Collection Notes

    InterMedia’s local field partner conducted the recruitment of interviewers and supervisors for the main fieldwork taking into account their language skills. Following the recruitment of field staff, a centralized training session was conducted in Dar Es Salaam from 27 January to 2 February 2016. Five independent field quality control (QC) staff directly hired by InterMedia also attended the training. The training covered interview techniques and field procedures, a detailed review of the survey questionnaires, mock interviews between participants in the classroom, and a field practice with actual respondents in the areas outside the sampled EAs.

    The interviewing teams collected data for the survey on mobile phones. Each team consisted of one supervisor and four to five interviewers. Four staff members from Intermedia’s local field partner coordinated and supervised fieldwork activities in addition to the five independent quality control (QC) team hired by Intermedia. The QC team stayed with the survey teams during fieldwork to closely supervise and monitor them.

    The final data files were checked for inconsistencies and errors by InterMedia, and corrections were made as necessary and where possible.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    The data files were checked for completeness, inconsistencies and errors by InterMedia and corrections were made as necessary and where possible.

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    The sample design for the smallholder household survey was a complex sample design featuring clustering, stratification and unequal probabilities of selection. For key survey estimates, sampling errors taking into account the design features were produced using either the SPSS Complex Sample module or STATA based on the Taylor series approximation method.

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Affiliation
    Jamie Barbara Anderson The World Bank

    Data Access

    Access conditions

    Direct access.

    Citation requirements

    Anderson, Jamie. 2016. National Survey and Segmentation of Smallholder Households in Tanzania: Household Level Data. Washington, D.C.: CGAP.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    Rights and Permissions This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0) http://creativecommons .org/licenses/by/3.0. Attribution—Cite the data as follows: Anderson, Jamie. 2016. National Survey and Segmentation of Smallholder Households in Tanzania: Household Level Data. Washington, D.C.: CGAP. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 All queries on rights and licenses should be addressed to CGAP Publications, 1818 H Street, NW, MSN IS7-700, Washington, DC 20433 USA; e-mail: cgap@world bank.org.

    Copyright

    CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), 2016.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Anna Nunan GFMGP - CGAP anunan@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_TZA_2016_SHS_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2016-05-19

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (May 2016)

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