Dataset for modelling the intention of tobacco farmers for safe use of pesticides: an application of the theorie of planned behavior
Description
Applying an extension of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) which considers five constructs: environmental attitudes, perceived behavior contol (PBC), subjective norms (SN), risk perception (RP) and morla norms (MN), this data set includes two different parts. The first part comprises sociodemographic data: gender (1: male, 2: female), age (1: < 18, 2: 18-30, 3: 31-50, 4: > 50 yrs), marital status (1: single, 2: married, 3: divorced, 4: Widowed), education level (1: Illiterate, 2: Primary, 3: Secondary, 4: University, 5: Postgraduate), Type of tobacco grower (1: Under contract, 2: No contract), experience in tobacco growing (1: < 1 yr, 2: 1-5, 3: 6-10, 4: 11-20. 5= > 20 yrs), tobacco surface area (1: < 1 ha, 2: 1-5, 3: 6-10, 4: 11-20, 5: > 20 yrs), use of pesticides (1: yes, 2: no), participation in a training of pesticide use and quantification (1: yes, 2: no), the distance between the field and the nearest river (1:<10m, 2: 10-100, 3:100-500, 4:500-1000, 5:1km-5km, 6: >5km) , the type of pesticides used within the last 2 years (authorised pesticides) and within the 5 last years (banned), and the pesticide waste management. The second part comprises the five constructs of the extended TPB. Respondents (n=273) were asked to indicate the extent of their opinions using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neither disagree nor agree, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree). Five hypoyheses were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and the mediation effect of RP and MN (the two additionl constructs in the orignal TPB) was assessed. This dataset provides the R scripts for statistical analyses. Tobacco farmers from the Bua river catchment in Central Malawi were the population of this study and the sample siwe was determined by the formula of cross-sectional studies with unkown population. The analysis of these data showed that environmental attitudes had a highest positive and significant effect on the intention of tobacco growers towards safe use of pesticides in Malawi, followed by RP, MN, SN and PBC.