Agricultural household characteristics in Uganda at sub-region level- AAS-2018

METADATA

• SECTION 1 – CONTACTS

   

  1.1	Contact organisation	UBOS - Uganda Bureau of Statistics
  1.2	Contact organisation unit	DAES - Department of Agriculture and Environmental Statistics
  1.3	Contact name	Aliziki Kaudha Lubega
  1.4	Contact email address	[email protected] or [email protected]
  1.5	Contact person function	Director of DAES, UBOS
  1.6	Contact mail address	Statistics House, Plot 9 Colville Street, P.O. Box 7186, Kampala, Uganda.
  1.7	Contact email address	[email protected] or [email protected]
  1.8	Contact phone number	0711706064 or 0414-706-000
  1.9	Contact fax number	Not available
  2.1	Contact organization unit	PES - Department of Production and Environment Statistics
  2.2	Contact name	Patrick Okello
  2.3	Contact person function	Head of Department of PES, UBOS
  2.4	Contact mail address	Statistics House, Plot 9 Colville Street, P.O. Box 7186, Kampala, Uganda.
  2.5	Contact email address	[email protected] or [email protected]
  2.6	Contact phone number	0711706091 or 0414-706-000
  2.7	Contact fax number	Not available

• SECTION 2 – ACTION DATE

   

  2.8	Metadata last certified	20-09-2022
  2.9	Metadata last posted	20-09-2022
  3.0	Metadata last update	20-09-2022

• SECTION 3 – MAIN CHARACTERISTICS DATA

   

  3.1	Data description	Indicators presented in this database are computed with microdata collected through the Uganda Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS) 2019 and the second season of AAS-2018. The purpose of the AAS is to collect data to provide information and statistics on agricultural activities (crop production, labour, inputs, costs, etc.), livestock, and demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the agricultural households. Data collection for the AAS is implemented in two waves, corresponding to the first and the second seasons of the agricultural year in Uganda. For each season, households are interviewed twice using the post-planting and the post-harvesting questionnaires. In addition, a livestock questionnaire is administered at the end of the second season. The present dataset contains the following set of indicators, which are computed using microdata collected on agricultural households: - Agricultural households (count) - Agricultural households - as % of all household in the sub-region - Average dependency rate in agricultural households (ratio) - Agricultural households practicing crop production only (proportion) - Agricultural households practicing crop production along with other agricultural activities (proportion) - Agricultural households practicing other agricultural production activities – no crop (proportion) - Agricultural households not practicing any agricultural production activity (proportion)  - Agricultural households with less than 3 parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with 3 to 5 parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with 6 or more parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with access to credit (proportion) - Agricultural households with access to advisory services (proportion) - Total agricultural area cultivated with crops (ha) - Average agricultural area cultivated with crops (ha) - Total holding area (ha) - Average holding area (ha) - Average number of parcels (count) For a full overview of the AAS questionnaire, reference is made to the microdata documentation available at the following link: http://microdata.ubos.org/index.php/catalog Available starting from August 2020
  3.2	Classification system	Not available
  3.2.1	Primary classification	Not available
  3.2.2	Secondary classification	Not available
  3.2.3	Secondary classification	Not available
  3.3	Sector coverage	Composition of agricultural households; Agricultural enterprises practiced by agricultural households; Cultivated area distribution; Agricultural area distribution; Plots and parcels of agricultural households; Access to advisory services; Access to credit.
  3.4	Statistical concepts and definitions	The following are the statistical concepts and definitions adopted by the AAS relevant to indicators presented in the “Socio-demographic characteristics of agricultural household members in Uganda”: 1) Household: A household is defined as a group of persons who normally eat and live together. Very often the household is constituted by a family living in the same house or compound and eating together. A household normally consists of a man, his wife and children and sometimes relatives, maids and visitors. If two or more groups of persons, each of which has its own separate eating and housekeeping arrangements, live in the same dwelling, they are treated as separate households. If a man has two or more wives and their children live and eat together, they are considered as one household. If the house and their children live and eat separately, they will form more than one household. The husband is the Household head in each of these households. A household may consist of one person who lives and eats on his or her own. A household may consist of several persons who are not related to each other. What matters is that they live together in the same household or compound and eat together. People that are on duty on the day of listing for the AAS are counted as a part of their household. Examples are night watchmen, police on night duty, night shift workers, fishermen who were out all night and similar people. 2) Household member: (i) Usual members present on the date of enumeration; (ii) Usual members not present on the date of enumeration; (iii) Children and other regular members away from home for six months or more for education, search of employment, business transactions, etc. but present on the date of enumeration; (iv) Same as in (iii) above but absent on the date of enumeration; (v) Non-members or guests staying temporarily on the date of enumeration; (vi) Those who were usual members and have stayed abroad for six months or more and; (vii) Those who have left the household permanently or died during the last 12 months. Usual members: defined as those persons who have been living in the household for 6 months or more during the last 12 months. However, members who have come to stay in the household permanently are to be included as usual members, even though they have lived in this household for less than 6 months. Furthermore, children born to usual members on any date during the last 12 months will be taken as usual members. Regular members: refer to those persons who would have been usual members of the household, but have been away for more than six months during the last 12 months, for education purposes, search of employment, business transactions, medical treatment, etc. and living in boarding schools, lodging houses and hostels. 3) Literacy rate: Percentage of adult literate household members. A person is defined as literate if he/she can read and write. 4) Household members without formal education: The survey records the highest grade of education completed by household members. Household members without formal education are those that never attended school, only went to nursery school, or attended primary school without but left before completion. 5) Household members with completed primary education: Household members that attended and completed primary school or a complementary opportunity for primary education. 6) Main economic activity: The economic activity is the supply of labor to produce economic goods and services. The main economic activity is the activity in which the respondent has spent most of his/her time in the last 12 months. It is not the activity from which the household member earns the most. A person might be engaged in more than one activity, in that case, the most important activity is defined according to time spent and not monetary gain. 7) Household members with completed secondary education or higher: Household members that completed one of the following courses of study: (i) Junior, (ii) Senior, (iii) Certificate, (iv) Diploma, (v) Degree, (vi) Postgraduate, or (vii) Vocational training. 8) Household members engaged in agriculture: Household members that reported as main economic activity (i) Crop production activity, (ii) Livestock production activity, (iii) Fisheries, (iv) Forestry, (v) Horticulture, (vi) Fruticulture, or (vii) Apiary-Bee keeping. 9) Household members engaged in crop production activities: Household members that reported crop production activity as main economic activity 10) Household members engaged in livestock activities: Household members that reported livestock production activity as main economic activity 11) Own account workers: a self-employed person who does not hire anyone to work for his/her enterprise. An example might be a person who has a stall in a market on his/her own or a farmer cultivating his/her land without hiring any laborer. An own-account  worker is a person who, working on his/her own account or with one or a few partners, holds a self-employment job in a market-oriented establishment and has not engaged any employees on a continuous basis during the reference period. However, during the reference period an own-account worker may have engaged one or more employees on a short-term and non-continuous basis. 12) Salaried workers: includes all employees including those doing casual, piece or domestic work. They may be paid in cash or in kind. 13) Adult household members: Household members with completed 15 years of age or above.
  3.5	Statistical unit	Agricultural household members
  3.6	Statistical population	All Agricultural households in Uganda
  3.7	Reference area	The AAS is a national survey representative at the ZARDI, sub-regional, regional and national levels. The national territory is divided into 14 sub-regions which are grouped in 4 regions. The following are the 14 sub-regions, grouped by region, included in the table. Eastern Region: Teso, Bukedi, Busoga, and Elgon. Central Region: South Buganda, North Buganda. Northern Region: West Nile, Lango, Ancholi, Karamoja. Western Region: Tooro, Kigezi, Bunyoro, Ankole.  Being an urban area, Kampala has been excluded from the survey. Ntoroko district did not fall in the selected sample.
  3.7.1	Code - reference area	Not available
  3.7.2	Code - Number of countries/areas covered	10 ZARDIs and 14 Sub-Regions. Kampala excluded from the survey. Ntoroko district did not fall in the selected sample.
  3.8	Time coverage	2018 for AAS-2018 and 2019 for AAS-2019
  3.8.1	Periodicity	Seasonal
  3.8.2	Start period	AAS-2018, second season: June 2018 (Post-planting) and March 2019 (Post-Harvest). AAS-2019, first season: June 2019(Post-planting) and September 2019 (Post-Harvest). AAS-2019, second season: December 2019(Post-planting) and March 2020 (Post-Harvest).
  3.8.3	End period	AAS-2018, second season: December 2018 (Post-planting) and May 2019 (Post-Harvest). AAS-2019, first season: August 2019(Post-planting) and November 2019 (Post-Harvest). AAS-2019, second season: March 2020(Post-planting) and October 2020 (Post-Harvest).
  3.9	Base period	Not applicable
  3.9.1	Base period code	Not applicable

• SECTION 4 – UNITS

   

  4	Unit of Measure	- Agricultural households (count) - Agricultural households - as % of all household in the sub-region - Average dependency rate in agricultural households (ratio) - Agricultural households practicing crop production only (proportion) - Agricultural households practicing crop production along with other agricultural activities (proportion) - Agricultural households practicing other agricultural production activities – no crop (proportion) - Agricultural households not practicing any agricultural production activity (proportion) - Agricultural households with less than 3 parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with 3 to 5 parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with 6 or more parcels of land (proportion) - Agricultural households with access to credit (proportion) - Agricultural households with access to advisory services (proportion) - Total agricultural area cultivated with crops (ha) - Average agricultural area cultivated with crops (ha) - Total holding area (ha) - Average holding area (ha) - Average number of parcels (count)
  4.1	Unit of measure codes	Not available

• SECTION 5 – REFERENCE PERIOD 

   

  5

  Reference period

  Data used to compute indicators of this table were collected in the AAS-2019 and the second season ofAAS-2018 visits.

• SECTION 6 – FORMAL SET OF INSTRUCTIONS

   

  6	Institutional mandate	UBOS is the principal data collecting, processing, analyzing and disseminating agency responsible for coordinating and supervising the National Statistical System. As such, UBOS is responsible for providing high quality central statistical information services on social, environmental and economic conditions in the country.
  6.1	Legal acts and other agreements	UBOS was established by Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act N0. 2 of June 11, 1998 This Act provides for the development and maintenance of a National Statistical System to ensure collection, analysis and publication of integrated, relevant, reliable and timely statistical information. It also establishes the Bureau as a coordinating, monitoring and supervisory body for the National Statistical System; and for other matters incidental to the foregoing. The 1998 Statistics Act Document can be accessed here (https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/UBOS-Act-1998.pdf) The Statistics Act has recently been updated and can be accessed here (https://ulii.org/ug/legislation/consolidated-act/310)

• SECTION 7 – FORMAL PROVISION

   

  7	Confidentiality	Basic rules to prevent identity disclosure of individuals and households have been applied.
  7.1	Confidentiality - policy	See section 18 of UBOS Act

• SECTION 8 – POLICY REGARDING THE RELEASE

   

  8	Release policy	According to section 19 of the UBOS Act, "The executive director shall ensure that any statistical data collected, after appropriate processing and ascertaining its quality for accuracy, and also after ensuring confidentiality with respect to any individual who provided any statistical information to which section 18 relates, is released for general dissemination."
  8.1	Release calendar	Not available
  8.2	Release calendar access	Not available
  8.3	User access	In line with UBOS’s Statistics Code of Practice data are disseminated on UBOS's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably.

• SECTION 9 - FREQUENCY DISSEMINATED DATA

   

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  Frequency of dissemination

  Yearly

• SECTION 10 - MEANS OF DISSEMINATION

   

  10	Dissemination format	Excel, Comma-Separated Values (CSV) and Tableau Workbook  (Web data portal) files
  10.1	News release	Ad-hoc news releases
  10.2	Publications	Annual Agricultural Survey 2018 and 2019 - Survey Report https://www.ubos.org/?pagename=explore-publications&p_id=2
  10.3	Means of Dissemination	NSO Open Data Platform (https://uganda.opendataforafrica.org/)
  10.4	Micro-data access	The AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 microdata are disseminated through the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070 Available starting from October 2022)

• SECTION 11 - AVAILABILITY OF NATIONAL REFERENCE

   

  11.1	Documentation on methodology	The documentation of the AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 is available at and downloadable from the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070 Available starting from August 2020)
  11.2	Quality documentation	The documentation of the AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 is available at and downloadable from the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070 Available starting from August 2020)

• SECTION 12 - MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FAO

   

  12	Quality management	UBOS has an Agricultural Data Quality Assessment Framework in place.
  12.1	Quality assurance	Estimates presented in this table have been computed with data collected, cleaned, validated and processed according to sound statistical methods.
  12.2	Quality assessment	The quality of computed estimates has been assessed looking at: 1) the number of non-weighted observations on which estimates were based; 2) the standard error of estimates (for proportions); 3) the coefficient of variation (for totals and averages). In the case of proportions, estimates based on less than 10 observations or with a standard error above 0.1 have not been disseminated. These values have been replaced with the symbol *** in the database. Furthermore, estimates with a standard error in between 0.05 and 0.1 have been flagged for quality concerns. These estimates are flagged with the symbol * under the column Quality_Flag  of the database. In the case of totals and averages, estimates based on less than 10 observations or with a coefficient of variation above the 30% have not been disseminated. These values have been replaced with the symbol *** in the database. Furthermore, estimates with a coefficient of variation in between 20% and 30% have been flagged for quality concerns. These estimates are flagged with the symbol * under the column Quality_Flag  of the database.

• SECTION 13 - CLASSIFICATION USERS

   

  13.1	User needs	The main users of this database are UBOS analysts, other national organizations, International Organizations (e.g. the FAO), research institutes and universities, journalists and general public.
  13.2	User satisfaction	Users feedbacks are routinely recorded although no user satisfaction studies have been conducted.
  13.3	Completeness	Completeness of presented indicators reflect completeness of source data. More detail on the completeness of the AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 microdata is available at and downloadable from the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070  Available starting from August 2020)

• SECTION 14 - MAIN SOURCES OF ERROR

   

  14.1	Overall accuracy	The AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 First Season had response rates of about 78% and 84%   of the targeted sample respectively
  14.2	Sampling error	The AAS-2018 and AAS-2019 had a large enough and representative sample hence limiting errors due to sampling. For more details, see the survey documentation available at the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070   Available starting from August 2020).
  14.3	Non-sampling error	The non-sampling errors were controlled through training of the data collectors, field supervision by the headquarter team, and a well-developed CAPI application.

• SECTION 15 - TIMELINESS AND PUNCTUALITY

   

  15.1	Timeliness	Data collection for the second season of the AAS 2018AAS-2018 was implemented in two visits. The post-planting visit was implemented from the 1st of July 2018 to the 31st of December 2018. The post-harvesting visit was implemented from the 1st of March 2019 to the 31st of May 2019. For AAS-2019, data collection for post-planting and post-harvest visits of the first season was implemented from June to August 2019 and from September to November 2019 respectively. The analogue periods for season 2 was from December 2019 to March 2020 and from March to July/August 2020 respectively.
  15.2	Punctuality	Data are released after one year from the end of data collection.

• SECTION 16 - COMPARABILITY BETWEEN COUNTRIES OR REGIONS

   

  16.1	Comparability - geographical	Estimates for different sub-regions are comparable among each other and can be aggregated at the regional and national level
  16.2	Comparability - over time	Not applicable

• SECTION 18 - COST ASSOCIATED

   

  18

  Cost and Burden

  Activity was co-funded by Government of Uganda (GOU) and the USAID through the AGRISurvey project

• SECTION 19 - GENERAL REVISION POLICY

   

  19.1	Data revision - policy	Not available
  19.2	Data revision - practice	Not available

• SECTION 20 - IDENTIFICATION DATA

   

  20.1	Source data	Annual Agricultural Survey 2018 and 2019 (AAS-2018 AAS-2019)
  20.1.2	Code - type of data	Survey data
  20.2	Frequency of data collection	Seasonal
  20.3	Code - Type and purpose of data collection	Data collected to provide information and statistics on agricultural activities (crop production, labour, inputs, costs, etc.), livestock, and demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the agricultural households
  20.4	Data validation	The documentation of the AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 is available at and downloadable from the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070 Available starting from August 2020)
  20.5	Data compilation	The documentation of the AAS-2018 Second Season and AAS-2019 is available at and downloadable from the UBOS microdata catalogue (https://microdata.ubos.org:7070 Available starting from August 2020)
  20.5.2	Imputation rate (frequency and value)	Not available
  20.5.3	Coverage rate	Not available
  20.6	Adjustment	Not available
  21	Comment	This database has been developed by UBOS-DAES with technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Technical assistance was provided in the context of the AGRISurvey programwith funding from the USAID.