Ghana Feed the Future Harmonized Dataset

This dataset was created by re-compiling available open, gender/sex-disaggregated Feed the Future data for Ghana and applying standard processing methods to enhance their accessibility and interoperability. This process entailed the standardization of variable names and labels, the creation of derived socio-economic indicators such as dietary diversity scores, household dependency ratios, and household age and gender composition. This dataset allows researchers to easily use data for Ghana, as well as make cross-country comparisons with other standardized datasets. Moreover, the provision of household GPS coordinates (offset for confidentiality purposes) allows users to match data at different levels. This work combines multi-topic household and community socioeconomic and agricultural surveys with biophysical datasets from multiple sources, including remote sensing, for a thorough comparison of different phenomena. These biophysical sources include the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) World Soil Information, NASA MODIS vegetation indices and land surface temperature data, and the HarvestChoice spatially-disaggregated subnational crop production statistics database (Spatial Production Allocation Model; SPAM).

本数据集通过重新编译加纳地区公开可用的、按性别/社会性别拆分的Feed the Future全球粮食安全倡议相关数据，并采用标准化处理方法提升其可访问性与互操作性而构建。该处理流程涵盖变量名称与标签的标准化工作，以及衍生社会经济指标的构建，具体包括膳食多样性得分、家庭抚养比、家庭年龄与性别结构等指标。本数据集可帮助研究人员便捷使用加纳相关数据，同时支持与其他标准化数据集开展跨国比较分析。此外，数据集附带经过偏移处理以保护隐私的家庭GPS坐标，可支持用户开展多层级数据匹配工作。本研究整合了多主题家庭与社区社会经济、农业调查数据，以及包括遥感数据在内的多源生物物理数据集，以实现对各类现象的全面比较分析。上述生物物理数据集来源包括：国际土壤参考与信息中心（ISRIC）的世界土壤信息数据、美国国家航空航天局（NASA）中分辨率成像光谱仪（MODIS）植被指数与地表温度数据，以及HarvestChoice项目的按空间拆分的次国家作物生产统计数据库（空间生产分配模型，SPAM）。