Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Forest Resource Use by Rural Communities in India

Description:

This project, “Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Forest Resource Use by Rural Communities in India” aims to study the role of forest plantations as a safety net for rural households facing distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected in 2021-22.

The data includes:

- Village information on demographics and resource governance
- Household information on demographics, livelihoods, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and forest use and management
- Information on forest plantations, including species and management

Data structure:

This dataset contains 720 households nested within 24 local governmental units (panchayats) in the Kangra District of India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

This data builds a panel dataset with previously collected data in 2018, “Impacts of Afforestation on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in India”, which is publicly available here: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/220402 .

The data from 2018 included 2400 households nested within 60 panchayats (40 households per panchayat). The current dataset has selected 24 panchayats from the previous study, and randomly selected 30 households from the original sample in each panchayat to resurvey in 2021-22.

The panel dataset thus enables comparison of forest use patterns before the pandemic (2018) with forest use during/after pandemic disruptions (2021-22) for 720 households.

At present, we post the raw, unprocessed data. We have removed all person names to protect identity of surveyed households. The documentation files include full information about variables collected.

本项目题为《新冠疫情对印度农村社区森林资源利用的影响》，旨在研究森林人工林在新冠疫情期间为陷入困境的农村家庭所发挥的安全网作用。数据采集工作于2021-2022年完成。

本数据集涵盖以下信息：
- 村庄层面的人口统计与资源治理信息
- 家庭层面的人口统计、生计状况、新冠疫情影响以及森林利用与管理信息
- 森林人工林相关信息，包括树种构成与经营管理情况

数据结构：
本数据集包含720户家庭，这些家庭嵌套于印度北部喜马偕尔邦（Himachal Pradesh）坎格拉县（Kangra District）的24个潘查亚特（panchayat）中。

本数据集与2018年采集的《印度造林对农村可持续生计的影响》的既往数据集共同构建为面板数据集，该既往数据集可通过以下链接公开获取：https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/220402。

2018年的数据集共包含2400户家庭，这些家庭嵌套于60个潘查亚特（panchayat）中，每个潘查亚特下设40户家庭。本研究从既往研究的样本中筛选出24个潘查亚特，并于2021-2022年从每个潘查亚特的原始样本中随机抽取30户家庭进行回访调查。

因此，本面板数据集可对比720户家庭在疫情前（2018年）与疫情期间及疫情后（2021-2022年）的森林利用模式差异。

目前本团队发布的为原始未处理数据。为保护受访家庭的身份信息，已删除所有个人姓名。数据集的说明文件涵盖了所采集变量的完整信息。