Survey Instruments and Data Documentation

Introduction

Since 1991, FSP has carried-out or assisted in a large number of household surveys in Mozambique. These surveys have ranged from geographically focused studies designed to address specific policy issues, to assistance to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in its National Agricultural Survey. Below are brief descriptions of each survey, links to downloadable questionnaires, and links to Research Reports which provide methodological background or research results from the surveys. Many of the downloadable questionnaires are "synthetic questionnaires". These are based on the original, but are redesigned to reflect the final structure of the SPSS/Windows data files. If the questionnaire is an original, and not a synthetic version, that is indicated in parentheses.

2005 National Agricultural Household Survey (TIA05)

• Village/Community Questionnaire (English, Portuguese)
• Small and Medium Farms: Panel Households (English, Portuguese)
• Small and Medium Farms: New Households (English, Portuguese)

2003 National Agricultural Household Survey (TIA03)

• Village/Community Questionnaire (English, Portuguese)
• Small and Medium Farms - with Field Measurements (English, Portuguese)
• Pequenas E Médias Explorações - Sem Medição
• Grandes Explorações

2002 National Agricultural Household Survey (TIA02)

During 2002 the project is working intensively in support of MADER's national agricultural household survey, referred to as TIA02. Field work is scheduled to be launched in July 2002 and completed during October. A total of over 4,000 households will be interviewed. Final questionnaires are now available.

• Household Questionnaire
• Community Questionnaire

Agricultural Market Information System (SIMA)

Since 1991, MSU has assisted MADER in implementing an Agricultural Market Information System (SIMA). This system produces weekly (Quente-Quente) and monthly (Boletím Mensal) bulletins with domestic prices of 25 products in 27 producer, wholesale, and retail markets throughout the country. The bulletins also include regional and international prices of selected commodities, and market commentary.

• Questionnaires
• SIMA Web site - Full set of SIMA and SIMA Provincial (SIMAP) Publications and presentations.

2000/01 Cotton Monitoring Surveys

In October 2000, Mozambique embarked on a phased liberalization of its cotton sector, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Policy Analysis Department was charged with monitoring this process and recommending follow-on reforms. As part of the monitoring process, FSP assisted the Policy Analysis Department in conducting a survey of cotton growers in Nampula province during December, 2000.

Questionnaires

• Household Level: this questionnaire is based in the income proxy methodology developed from the 1998 Income Survey, and will allow the calculation of estimates for each household of income from 10 different sources. (original in Portuguese)
• Grower Level: this questionnaire focuses on the cotton growing practices and experience of the grower. (original in Portuguese)

1998 Income Survey

In 1998, FSP worked with USAID-funded NGOs to conduct a survey of households in NGO target areas. The stratified cluster sample design covered 490 households, each of whom was visited twice during the year. The primary purpose of the survey was to develop income proxy models for use by NGOs in impact monitoring.

Questionnaires

• Round 1 (June 1998; original in Portuguese)
• Round 2 (November 1998; original in Portuguese)

Research Reports: See #38 for more detail on research methods, and for the income proxy models developed on the basis of these data.

1996 National Agricultural Survey (TIA96)

FSP assisted MADER in carrying out this national rural household survey. The stratified cluster sample design covered 3,851 households in all 10 provinces of the country. FSP added a microenterprise module to this survey, covering all sampled households in the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia, Manica, and Sofala.

Questionnaires

• Main Questionnaire
• MSE Module
  • Rural, Part I (translated original)
  • Rural, Part II (translated original)
  • Rural, Closed Enterprises (translated original)
  • Urban (translated original)

Reports

• Lessons Learned
• Documentation and selected results: text of the report, and statistical tables.

Small-Holder Cash Cropping, Food Cropping and Food Security in Northern Mozambique

This survey was carried out over five rounds in 1994 and 1995. It focused on three "Joint Venture Companies" operating cotton outgrower schemes with smallholders in Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces in northern Mozambique. The objective of the research was to examine the effects of alternative technological packages and institutional arrangements for cotton on smallholder incomes and food security. The stratified cluster sample covered 472 households, with modules on agricultural production, field level agricultural activities (including labor hiring), off-farm wage and microenterprise activities, expenditure, and 24-hour recall food consumption.

Questionnaires

• Agriculture, Demography, Employment and Expenditure
• Household Level Questions
• 24-hour Recall Consumption
• Maize Milling Module
• Land Conflict Module (done in collaboration with Land Tenure Center, U. of Wisconsin)

Research Reports: See #21 for details on research methods; #25 for selected research results.

Socio-economic Survey of the Smallholder Sector in Three Districts of Nampula Province, 1991

This survey covered 343 households in the districts of Ribaue, Monapo and Angoche, Nampula province. It examined the food security strategies that households had adopted under the extremely difficult circumstances created by civil war and degradation of infrastructure.

• Original Questionnaire
• Related Research Reports: See Research Reports 3 and 3P (Portuguese) for more detail on research design. For research results, see Research Reports 4, 4P, 5, 5P, and 6