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| Title: | Participatory Appraisal Approaches versus Sample Survey Data Collection: A Case of Smallholder Farmers Well-Being Ranking in Njombe District, Tanzania |
| Authors: | Temu, Andrew E. Due, Jean M.  |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 44-62 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | research research methods social sciences small farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/1/44.full.pdf |
| Abstract: | Many socioeconomic researchers rely heavily on sample selection, structured questionnaire interviews and empirical data analyses, not using other data collection methods such as participatory and rapid rural appraisal techniques. This study compares results from the two different types of surveys conducted in 1995-1996 to establish socioeconomic well-being ranks among smallholder farmer groups for a rural development and natural resource conservation project (HIMA-Njombe) in the district of Njombe in Tanzania. It finds that the two approaches, participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and sample survey data collection, support each other in revealing the socioeconomic situation of Njombe. The PRA offers several advantages, being less costly and taking a shorter time, and involving future beneficiaries of the project. The sample survey method produces more numerical data. PRA and conventional surveys could be combined for better results than would be the case if each one was carried out independently. There is a strong justification for programmes to adopt methodological pluralism. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |
