Water access and SAI

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This dataset was gathered under the ethical approval of the University of Cape Coast- Institutional Review Board. The data comes in five sections: demographic characteristics, farming characteristics, landscape change perspectives, effects of landscape changes on water balance, access to water and sustainable agriculture intensification. The survey data is in IBM SPSS format and it is important to note that the additional variables in the surveyed data were estimated using GIS and remote sensing techniques. Apart from the survey, there are GPS datasets of dams to cater for the spatial aspects. The dam data are in kml format. Attached to this data is the questionnaire used to gather the data.

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This data was gathered from smallholder farmers in two districts in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Based on the estimated target population, a sample size of 698 respondents was recruited using multistage sampling. The multistage sampling began with sampling 5% of the total number of communities in each district using simple random sampling. Based on the total number of smallholder farmers who are household heads, a proportional sampling was adopted to know the number of respondents per community. In the community, a systematic sampling procedure was used to select the household heads. In houses (farmsted) with multiple households, the lottery method of simple random sampling was used to select one respondent. Sampled smallholder farmers who are household heads were assisted in responding to the interview schedule (Questionnaire) by trained field assistants.

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