Starter Pack (SP2) Evaluation Programme 1999-2000 (Module 5)

Module 5 of the Starter Pack Evaluation Programme is concerned with trying to reconcile different estimates of the number of rural households in Malawi available from a variety of sources. The focus is particularly on data on households and population available from the National Statistical Office (NSO) and on the data on farm families available from the Starter Pack Logisitics Unit (SPLU). A main component of Module 5 was the Ground Truth Investigation Study (GTIS) which was designed to cover 60 villages spread out around Malawi. It was hoped that this study would yield independent estimates of the size of the rural population which could then be matched against the data from the other sources.