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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption / Kondylis, Florence
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kondylis, Florence
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Education.
- Gender.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Measurement Error.
- Objective Adoption.
- Objective Knowledge.
- Population Policies.
- Primary Education.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Self-Reported Adoption.
- Self-Reported Knowledge.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Education.
- Gender.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Measurement Error.
- Objective Adoption.
- Objective Knowledge.
- Population Policies.
- Primary Education.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Self-Reported Adoption.
- Self-Reported Knowledge.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (35 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2014
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement error from male and female self-reports of their adoption and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching, and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men and women. Having received training unanimously lowers knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports. Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender. Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent, costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes.
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