Ghana - Agriculture - Land Tenure

Start	End	Cycle
2010-05	2010-07	Baseline

The main mode of data collection was the use of structured questionnaires. In some cases there were open ended questions in which the respondent could provide text. In many cases however the respondent was provided with coded answers from which to choose. These questionnaires were administered by enumerators who visited the homes or the work place of the participating households at a time convenient for the respondents. When the administration of questionnaire to a particular respondent is not completed at one sitting because the respondent had to attend to something else, it was continued later when they are available. For respondents who had moved from their original place of residence they were either reached on phone or contacted through the person they provided as their main future contact. Because of the nature and complexity of the field work in terms of administration of portions of the questionnaires and whom it should be administered to as well as demarcation for the various terms with the GPS, it became important that enumerators were closely monitored. For this reason, each team was visited after every other day especially within the first two weeks of the field work. For the purpose of this close monitoring, three principal research assistants were each assigned to each of the teams and they were responsible for getting feed-back from the team leaders and the members of the team for corrective measures to be taken as and when issues came up. Questionnaires Depending on the household type different portions of the questionnaire were administered to the head and spouse. The data consists of responses from these household to questions pertaining to Household Income and Expenditure, Education and Skills / Training and Employment, Individual and Household Assets, Agricultural and Land Information, Non-farm Household Enterprises, Financial literacy and Marital Information. Supervision Out of a total of 65 trained enumerators, the training team selected 54 for the field work. This was based on the outcome of a trial test conducted on the 27th and 28th of March, 2010 as well as the languages fluently spoken by these enumerators. The decision was also informed by an aptitude test on the various sections of the questionnaire which had been studied during a six-day training period The teams were made up of a Supervisor, a field editor, 2 plot mapping experts and 14 Enumerators. The Supervisor is the team leader and is responsible for overseeing, monitoring and, where necessary, correcting the work of the interviewers and the field editor. The enumerators on the other hand conduct daily interviews with the household. The plot mapping experts were responsible for demarcating boundaries within which enumeration should be conducted based on the three terms (treatment, short and long).
The main mode of data collection was the use of a structured questionnaires. In some cases there were open ended questions in which the respondent could provide text. In many cases however the respondent was provided with coded answers from which to choose. These questionnaires were administered by enumerators who visited the homes or the work place of the participating households at a time convenient for the respondents. When the administration of questionnaire to a particular respondent is not completed at one sitting because the respondent had to attend to something else, it was continued later when they are available. For respondents who had moved from their original place of residence they were either reached on phone or contacted through the person they provided as their main future contact.

Because of the nature and complexity of the field work in terms of administration of portions of the questionnaires and whom it should be administered to as well as demarcation for the various terms with the GPS, it became important that enumerators were closely monitored. For this reason, each team was visited after every other day especially within the first two weeks of the field work. For the purpose of this close monitoring, three principal research assistants were each assigned to each of the teams and they were responsible for getting feed-back from the team leaders and the members of the team for corrective measures to be taken as and when issues came up.

Out of a total of 65 trained enumerators, the training team selected 54 for the field work. This was based on the outcome of a trial test conducted on the 27th and 28th of March, 2010 as well as the languages fluently spoken by these enumerators. The decision was also informed by an aptitude test on the various sections of the questionnaire which had been studied during a six-day training period The teams were made up of a Supervisor, a field editor, 2 plot mapping experts and 14 Enumerators. The Supervisor is the team leader and is responsible for overseeing, monitoring and, where necessary, correcting the work of the interviewers and the field editor. The enumerators on the other hand conduct daily interviews with the household. The plot mapping experts were responsible for demarcating boundaries within which enumeration should be conducted based on the three terms (treatment, short and long).