Baseline and Endline Household Surveys Conducted in 'Treatment' Villages and 'Control' Villages in Nimba County, Liberia, to Assess the Socio-Economic Impact of Upgrading Rural Footpaths From Farm to Village to Road-Side, to Motorcycle Taxi Navigable Tracks.

The data-sets downloadable are the baseline and endline household surveys conducted in 'treatment' villages and 'control' villages in Nimba County, Liberia, to assess the socio-economic impact of upgrading rural footpaths from farm to village to road-side, to motorcycle taxi navigable tracks. The baseline data was collected in 2016 (April-May) by a team of Sierra Leonean and Liberian research assistants, overseen by researchers from Swansea and Wageningen university. In 2017, footpaths were upgraded to motorcycle taxi navigable tracks by an American NGO (Global Communities) and funded by GIZ. In 2018 the research assistants and main researchers returned and conducted the endline household surveys (again during April-May) in the communities along the tracks and in the control communities along the footpath. Key findings are published in: JENKINS, J., PETERS, K. & RICHARDS, P. 2020. At the End of the Feeder Road: assessing the Socio-economic Impact of Upgrading Rural Footpaths to Motorcycle Taxi-Accessible Tracks in Liberia. NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. Vol. 92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2020.100333

可下载的数据集包含在利比里亚宁巴县（Nimba County, Liberia）的“处理组”村庄（'treatment' villages）与“对照组”村庄（'control' villages）开展的基线家庭调查（baseline household survey）及终线家庭调查（endline household survey），旨在评估将农村小径（连接农场、村庄至路边的路径）升级为摩托车出租车可通行轨道（motorcycle taxi navigable tracks）的社会经济影响。

基线数据于2016年4月至5月由塞拉利昂与利比里亚研究助理团队收集，由斯旺西大学（Swansea University）及瓦赫宁根大学（Wageningen University）的研究人员监督。

2017年，上述小径由美国非政府组织“全球社区”（Global Communities）升级为摩托车出租车可通行轨道，项目资金由德国国际合作机构（GIZ）提供。

2018年，研究助理与主要研究人员重返当地，于4月至5月期间在轨道沿线社区及小径沿线的对照社区再次开展终线家庭调查。

主要研究结果发表于：JENKINS, J.、PETERS, K. 及 RICHARDS, P. 2020年的论文《支线道路尽头：利比里亚农村小径升级为摩托车出租车可通行轨道的社会经济影响评估》（At the End of the Feeder Road: assessing the Socio-economic Impact of Upgrading Rural Footpaths to Motorcycle Taxi-Accessible Tracks in Liberia），载于《NJAS - 瓦赫宁根生命科学期刊》（NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences）第92卷，DOI：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2020.100333。