Identification

Title

Household composition, income and assets survey data (including environmental product collection) from Mabalane, Gurue and Marrupa districts, Mozambique in 2014 and 2015

Abstract

This dataset includes data collected as part of the Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services (ACES) project on the composition, income (including consumption and sale of environmental resources), ownership of assets (e.g. farming equipment, household furnishings and own transport) and wellbeing of respondent households in rural Mozambique. Data are also included from a participatory wealth ranking exercise carried out in each village. Data were collected in a total of 27 villages: 7 villages in Mabalane District in Gaza Province, 10 villages in Gurué District in Zambezia Province and 10 villages in Marrupa District in Niassa Province. Data collection was carried out in 2014 and 2015, using a one-off environmentally-augmented household income and assets survey administered by enumerators in the locally appropriate language. The objective of the ACES project was to explore interactions between woodland change, ecosystem services and wellbeing in rural Mozambican households. The study used a space-for-time substitution approach, with villages in each district chosen to represent different points on gradients of land use intensity with respect to the dominant land use types in each district (charcoal production in Mabalane, commercial agriculture in Gurué and subsistence agriculture in Marrupa). Data were collected primarily by researchers based in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique. All the data collected using the household survey are included in this dataset barring those data which would compromise the anonymity of respondents, such as the names and household coordinates of those interviewed. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6d94d084-6c9d-4f81-8a3f-0b82de827858

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/6d94d084-6c9d-4f81-8a3f-0b82de827858

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/6d94d084-6c9d-4f81-8a3f-0b82de827858.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6d94d084-6c9d-4f81-8a3f-0b82de827858

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

economy

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

30.21

East bounding longitude

45.05

North bounding latitude

-10.33

South bounding latitude

-26.91

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-01-01

End position

2015-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-03-29

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data for the ACES project were collected in three districts of Mozambique representing three different social-ecological contexts. Marrupa District in Niassa Province has low levels of infrastructure and livelihoods are characterised by dependence on subsistence rather than commercial agriculture. In contrast, Gurué District in Zambezia Province is one of the main commercial crop producing regions of Mozambique, with crops including soya, pulses and sunflower primarily derived from smallholder producers. Mabalane District in Gaza Province is characterised by high dependence of livelihoods on production of charcoal, primarily for supply to the capital city Maputo. A total of 27 villages were chosen for inclusion in the survey based upon scoping visits: 7 in Malabane, 10 in Gurué and 10 in Marrupa. The ACES project followed a ‘space-for-time’ substitution approach, with villages selected at different intensities of the dominant land use in each of the three districts (specifically charcoal in Mabalane, soya in Gurué and tobacco in Marrupa). The chosen villages within each district displayed, as far as possible, similar soil and vegetation types, and had a leader who was resident in the village. The ACES survey used the definition of a household as people ‘eating from the same pot’ . Different household sampling strategies were used in the three study districts: in Malabane, a census of all households was attempted as villages were relatively small, whereas in Marrupa and Gurué stratified random sampling was employed with the aim of oversampling the rich and very poor households.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

© Natural Environment Research Council

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Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Vollmer, F., Fisher, J., Ryan, C.M., Baumert, S., Woollen, E., Luz, A., Cossa, I., Stedham, R., Smith, H. (2019). Household composition, income and assets survey data (including environmental product collection) from Mabalane, Gurue and Marrupa districts, Mozambique in 2014 and 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6d94d084-6c9d-4f81-8a3f-0b82de827858

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

frank.vollmer1@gmx.de

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

janet.fisher@ed.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

casey.ryan@ed.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

email address

sophia.baumert@posteo.de

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

e.woollen@ed.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Universidade de Lisboa

email address

anaccluz@gmail.com

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

email address

idrissejorge@gmail.com

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

becky@livelihoods.net

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Leeds

email address

h.x.smith@leeds.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Sheffield

email address

r.pritchard@sheffield.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-05-18T12:29:10

Metadata language

eng