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Can Diaries Help Improve Agricultural Production Statistics : Evidence from Uganda / Klaus Deininger
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Deininger, Klaus
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Production.
- Agriculture.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Diaries.
- Food & Beverage Industry.
- Food Insecurity.
- Household Welfare.
- Policy-Decisions.
- Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research & Science Parks.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Production.
- Agriculture.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Diaries.
- Food & Beverage Industry.
- Food Insecurity.
- Household Welfare.
- Policy-Decisions.
- Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research & Science Parks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 pages)
- Other Title:
- Can Diaries Help Improve Agricultural Production Statistics
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Although good and timely information on agricultural production is critical for policy-decisions, the quality of underlying data is often low and improving data quality could have a high payoff. This paper uses data from a production diary, administered concurrently with a standard household survey in Uganda to analyze the nature and incidence of responses, the magnitude of differences in reported outcomes, and factors that systematically affect these. Despite limited central supervision, diaries elicited a strong response, complemented standard surveys in a number of respects, and were less affected by problems of respondent fatigue than expected. The diary-based estimates of output value consistently exceeded that from the recall-based production survey, in line with reported disposition. Implications for policy and practical administration of surveys are drawn out.
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