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Commercial Training 2008-2011

Ghana, 2008 - 2011
Agriculture Census and Surveys
The Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)
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Identification

Survey ID Number
GHA_2008_CT_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Title
Commercial Training 2008-2011
Country
Name Country code
Ghana GHA
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Abstract
The evaluation had the primary objective of measuring the impact of the FBO training program on farmers' farm productivity and crop income. It was based on a randomized phase-in approach, taking advantage of the fact that not all FBOs that were to be part of the program could be trained at the same time, and so implicit in the program design itself was some degree of phasing. At the core of the impact evaluation was a difference-in-difference approach designed to measure the difference in agricultural output between the treatment group (a collection of FBO members who received commercial trainings in 2008 and 2009) and the control group (a collection of FBO members who received commercial trainings a year later). The Farmer-Based Organization (FBO) Survey series is a collection of data designed to evaluate the impact of these trainings on farmers in Ghana. To aid the survey and enable the implementation of the difference-in-difference approach, the FBOs were divided into two batches and each farmer was to be interviewed twice: once at baseline and again after one year. Batch 1 treatment and control farmers were surveyed in November-December 2008 and again in February-April 2010. Batch 2 treatment and control farmers were surveyed in February-April 2010 and again in November 2010-January 2011. In total, approximately 6,000 farmers -- 3,000 in the treatment group and 3,000 in control group -- were surveyed.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Households

Scope

Notes
-Household members
-General education
-Health
-Activity and occupation
-Migration
-Transfers
-Information seeking
-Savings, credit & assets
-Housing characteristics
-Agriculture
-Non-farm interprises
Topics
Topic Vocabulary
Agriculture & Rural Development FAO
Access to Finance FAO
Migration & Remittances FAO
Keywords
Keyword
Randomized Roll-out
Farmer Training
Impact evaluation

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Regional

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
The Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Millennium Challenge Corporation MCC Funded the study

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The Farmer-Based Organization (FBO) Survey covered farmers in three (3) Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) operational zones and the sample was selected in two (2) stages. In the first stage, FBOs were selected within each zone. MiDA made 600 FBOs available to the survey group, all of which were used in the sample. FBOs were randomly assigned to either receive the early trainings (Batch I) or the late trainings (Batch II). In the second stage, five (5) farmers were selected from each of the 600 FBOs. Each batch contained approximately 3,000 farmers and 6,000 farmers in all were interviewed.
Deviations from the Sample Design
Researchers noted that there seemed to have been some level of contamination of the control group -- a problem that the farmers in the southern zone raised. There were two sources of this contamination. One was from the control farmers attending training sessions meant for the treatment group. The other source was engendered by the situation where farmers who got the training went around to their colleagues in the control group (who may have been part of some "original" groupings) and taught them what they had learned. Whereas the first was an implementation challenge, researchers noted, the second reflects positive spill overs of the training.
Response Rate
Approximately 82 percent
Weighting
Refer to study dataset.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2008-11-01 2008-12-30 Batch I (Round 1)
2010-02-01 2010-04-30 Batch I (Round 2)
2010-02-01 2010-04-30 Batch II (Round 1)
2010-11-01 2011-01-31 Batch II (Round 2)
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face paper [f2f]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Email
Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation [email protected]
Confidentiality
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use
Access conditions
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use
Citation requirements
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana. An Impact Evaluation of the MIDA FBO Training. 2012.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_GHA_2008_CT_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Office of Chief Statistician OCS Food and Agriculture Organization Adoption of metadata for FAM
Millennium Challenge Corporation MCC Metadata entry
DDI Document version
GHA_2008_CT_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01