Household surveys are key to understanding smallholder farms but research organizations and development agencies did not always consider interoperability, complicating attempts for wide-scale data analysis. CGIAR researchers began tackling the household survey interoperability problem in 2015. More than 13,000 standardized surveys and 21 countries later, they published their findings, methods and analysis of their massive dataset in February in Scientific Data, a Nature publication. The use of the survey tool continues to expand.
With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
- EurekAlert
- 3. 3 2020 (06:00)