The Chilean Coast Cordilleras: Rural Poverty and Resource Degradation

Rural poverty and resource degradation in the Minifundien areas.

Topics: distance to Curepto; age and length of school attendance by
parents; parents´ ability to read and write; size of family; average
length of children´s school attendance; reasons for termination of
schooling; agricultural activity of family members on other farms and
type of work; duration of this activity and income received;
subsidies; amount of pension; social security and year of last
contribution paid; size of house; age and condition of house; type of
floor covering; value of house; type of house construction; number of
rooms; relation of family size to number of household goods;
judgemment on the completeness of household goods in household; type
of water supply; presence of electricity; type of sewage disposal;
judgement on fundamental infrastructure of house; irrigation; water
rights; range, condition and value of fencing; area and value of all
buildings; value of work tools and equipment; technical aid received
and institution providing it; participation in events for further
education; time interval since last participation in a further
education course and type of course; credit and debts; attitude to
credit; number of land rights and their area; number and size of
farmed plots; ownership of the land farmed the most; non-agricultural
activities; membership in production communities; leadership position
or earlier membership in production communities; experiences during
earlier membership; size of irrigated land surface, of land worked on
and of land that cannot be cultivated; total surface and size of
cultivated surfaces; size of artificial and natural pastures; size of
artificial and natural forest; size of land surface that can not be
used productively; proportion of cultivated area to area which could
be cultivated; proportion of cultivated area to total surface area;
change in culture; cultivation of selected agricultural products;
number of work horses and animals; number of animals sold and the
value of these animals; milking of cows and goats; length of milking
period; production of milk; sale of milk; extra fodder in the winter;
employment of extra workers and amount of wages; total income;
relation of agricultural income to other income; relation of
self-sufficiency to total income; relation of subsidies and pensions
to total income; activities in the area of crafts and small-scale
trade; participation of wife in field work; manner of obtaining
firewood; type of firewood; person responsible for collecting
firewood as well as time required and frequency of collecting;
burning rate of the wood; fuel and apparatus used for cooking; type
and frequency of baking bread as well as reasons for the form chosen;
heater; manner of obtaining coal; amount of production or acquisition
of coal; burning rate of one sack of coal in winter and summer;
cultivation of slopes; making furrows for seeds; leaving land fallow;
regard for a particular form of use of irrigation; presence of brush
and natural forest on the property; intensity of use of natural
forest; composition of the natural forest and types of trees;
recultivation of forest lands after the felling of timber; reasons
for erosion; regard for recultivating eroded ground; amount of total
monthly expenditures; distance to the nearest school; time since last
visit to the doctor by head of household and wife; visits to the
dentist and time since the last treatment; distance to the nearest
post office; available capital.

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interviewer.