The questionnaire was designed to collect detailed data about milk production, cost, and sales to generate information on net milk income and milk sales, which are two primary outcomes of interest to assess project impact. The project also aimed to reduce seasonality of milk production, so that net incomes would be higher and less variable throughout the year. Thus, the questionnaire also collected data on practices, such as second-season fodder grass production, associated with less pronounced seasonality in milk production.While a full-scale consumption module was not included, a module to capture dietary diversity was. The questionnaire also included sections to recover information on the most important control variables at the household level, in order to improve precision of estimating project impact. These included basic household demographics and wealth variables; landholdings; and access to extension and other sources of information, density of social networks, etc.
Importantly, a dairy group questionnaire was also designed. The functioning of dairy groups (i.e., structure, conduct, and performance) is likely to have a strong impact on the ability of households to benefit from project activities, many of which were carried out through the dairy group leadership. Indicators of dairy group performance can serve as controls and can also provide valuable additional insights to feed into future project designs. The dairy group questionnaire also included a module on the history of presence of other development projects in addition to SDCP, which could prove to be useful control information, as well as basic information on community characteristics.
Note: some variables may have missing labels. Please, refer to the questionnaire for more details.
