kenyachoice {gosset}

Kenyan farmers’ preferences for agricultural and livelihood practices

Description

Data from a preference experiment in Makueni County, Kenya. Twenty-six smallholder farmers ordered 9 different livelihood improvement practices by their personal preference. Full rankings were broken down into multiple pairwise rankings (kenyachoice[["contests"]]). To each respondent, a set of nine socio-economic variables is available (kenyachoice[["predictors"]]).

Usage

kenyachoice

Format

A list with two dataframes. kenyachoice[["contests"]] contains the pairwise rankings from farmers choices. kenyachoice[["predictors"]] contains the socioeconomic data for each farmer. Codes for contests are described:

B

Opening a business

D

Dry planting

G

Collective crop marketing

J

Finding off-farm job

M

Machine tillage

O

Renting out traction animals

R

Mulching

T

Terracing

Z

Zai pits

Source

Steinke, J., et. al. (2019). Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 162, 991–1000. doi:10.1016/j.compag.2019.05.026