{"doc_desc":{"title":"MWI_2006-2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","idno":"DDI_MWI_2006-2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO","producers":[{"name":"Office of Chief Statistician","abbreviation":"OCS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture Organization","role":"Adoption of metadata for FAM"},{"name":"Census team, Statistics Division","abbreviation":"ESS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture Organization","role":"Metadata producer"}],"version_statement":{"version":"MWI_2006-2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"MWI_2006-2007_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","title":"Census of Agriculture, 2006-2007","alt_title":"CA 2006-2007"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"National Statistical Office (NSO)","affiliation":"Government of Malawi"},{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MoAFS)","affiliation":"Government of Malawi"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Statistics Norway","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Norwegian Government","abbreviation":"","role":"Funding"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"National Statistical Office","affiliation":"Government of Malawi","email":"enquiries@statistics.gov.mw","uri":" http:\/\/www.nsomalawi.mw\/"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"The Census of Agriculture (CA) 2006\/2007, to which this metadata review and data refer, is the fourth CA conducted in Malawi. The first one was conducted in 1968\/1969, the second in 1980\/1981 and the third in 1991\/1992."},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Crop production","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Livestock production","vocab":"","uri":""}],"topics":[{"topic":"Agriculture & Rural Development","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Food (production, crisis)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Land (policy, resource management)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Trade","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Livestock","vocab":"FAO","uri":""}],"abstract":"Malawi\u2019s economic growth and development depends on the agricultural sector. In order to plan for agricultural development, comprehensive, reliable and up to date data on state of agriculture, ownership,\nuse of agricultural land, volume and value of production are essential. Reliable data of food and agricultural production for marketing and own consumption are also required for poverty reduction, food\nsecurity management and estimation of agricultural GDP. Data on various aspects of agriculture are also required for monitoring of agricultural development programmes. The last agricultural sample census was\ncarried out in 1991\/92. Given the large demographic, economic and social changes since 1991\/92, it is therefore important to get up to date information.\n\nBasic objectives:\n\u00b7 To provide data for clarifying the social and economic factors affecting the country\u2019s agricultural structure by interrelating various characteristics of the holding\n\u00b7 To provide aggregate totals for fundamental agricultural data from both smallholder and commercial sectors for use as the benchmark for inter-censual estimates\n\u00b7 To provide basic data for the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive integrated system of food and agriculture\n\u00b7 To analyse food security at the household level\n\u00b7 To provide basic data regarding current use and changes in agriculture\n\u00b7 To enable government to formulate plans to improve productivity especially of smallholder sector\n\u00b7 To provide a frame for other agricultural sample surveys","coll_dates":[{"start":"2007-01","end":"2007-10","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Malawi","abbreviation":"MWI"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Households","universe":"statistical unit was the agricultural production household (\"agricultural household\").","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the study covered topics related to agriculture, marketing, livestock and health related issues."},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"\u00b7\tthe 2007 crop year (from January to October 2007), for items such as production of crops, inputs for crops\n\u00b7\tthe 12 preceding months (in relation to the date of data collection), for items such as the participation of household members in cooperative agricultural work or livestock disposed of\n\u00b7\tthe seven preceding days (in relation to the date of data collection), for food security items and income sources for food consumed","sampling_procedure":"SAMPLE FRAME AND DESIGN\n\nThe CA 2006\/2007 was conducted based on a sample enumeration. The Malawi Population and Housing Census (MPHC) 1998 provided the frame of EAs for the CA 2006\/2007. The sampling frame of agricultural households was built on the basis of the listing of households from the sampled EAs.Each district was stratified by agro-ecological zones and each EA was stratified by land cultivated (small-scale farmers and large-scale farmers). Sampling of households was undertaken based upon the listing of households, four strata were identified (estate households, large-scale smallholders, small-scale smallholders and landless households). All estates were included in the AC, while landless households were not in the target population. Actual sampling was done among small-scale and large-scale smallholders. It was decided to select five large-scale and ten small-scale households from each EA. Where less than five large-scale households were found, the number of small-scale households sampled was increased correspondingly in order to achieve a total of 15 from each EA.\n \nA two stage sample design was used; where the first sampling units were the Enumeration Areas (EAs) and the second sampling units were farming households. Stratification was done at district level and at\nEA level. Each district was stratified by agro-ecological zones and each EA was stratified by land cultivated (small scale farmers and large scale farmers). This stratification was done to improve the precision of the estimates by reducing the variance between EA and within EA. The total sample size was 25 000 households nationwide. The sample size at EA level was 15 households.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The CA used a set of nine questionnaires (\"modules\"). Eight questionnaires were used for holding-level data collection: \n\n(1) Household Composition\n(2) Land Parcels\n(3) Plot Details (information on production and area)\n(4) Food Security and HIV\/AIDS\n(5) Marketing\n(6) Welfare Monitoring Survey\n(7) Livestock Survey\n(8) Estate Survey\n \n The Village Facility Survey questionnaire was used to collect community-level data. The CA questionnaires covered 12 of the 16 core items4 recommended for the WCA 2010 round. (The following core items were not covered by the CA: (i) \"Legal status of agricultural holder\"; (ii) \"Presence of aquaculture on the holding\"; (iii) \"Presence of forests and other woodland on the holding\"; (iv) \"Other economic production activities of the holding's enterprise\".)","coll_situation":"Objective measurement was also applied to measure the areas of land parcels and plots.","cleaning_operations":"1. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING\nData entry was accomplished by scanning the questionnaires using the Eyes and Hands software. Data processing and analysis was done using SPSS.\n\n2. CENSUS DATA QUALITY\nThere was an effort to reconcile the CA 2006\/2007 data with the estimates from the MoAFS annual Agriculture Production Estimation Survey (APES); however, the APES estimates were significantly higher and the evaluation was inconclusive."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"See http:\/\/www.nsomalawi.mw\/","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"conditions":"CONTACT:\n\nNational Statistical Office, Agriculture and Natural Resources Division \nAddress: P.O. BOX. 333, Zomba, Malawi\nTelephone: (+265) 1524377 \/ 311","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses"}}},"schematype":"survey"}