Generation and Distribution of Rural Prosperity: Questionnaire Data Collected During the Revisits to Previously Surveyed Households, 2015-2018

Numerous African economies are growing rapidly and there are signs of prosperity in rural and urban regions. The greater returns the wealthy enjoy enable them to concentrate land and resources. Those without land become a rural proletariat, their livelihoods part of the general trend towards deagrarianisation, but in the absence of viable alternatives to agriculture they are not characterized by prosperity and long term prospects. We revisited families in Tanzania who had been previously surveyed and explored changes to the assets they owned with a short questionnaire. These data contain the results of those revisits.