Data supporting 'The value of donkeys to livelihood provision in northern Ghana'

The research was undertaken to investigate the value of donkeys to various stakeholders in northern Ghana. This dataset consists of four parts. The first part, a folder entitled '1_Data.zip' contains eight separate zipped datafiles. These comprise the original, anonymised research data collected with both donkey and non-donkey owners in northern Ghana on their perceptions of the value of their donkeys to their livelihood provision. Relevant data underpinning seven specific charts and tables in the paper currently under review include why people keep donkeys and barriers to owning them; the frequencies of certain activities undertaken with donkeys across the year; the reasons why non-donkey owners would like to own donkeys; temporal and contemporary costs of purchase of donkeys and, in three different scenarios, which animal would participants sell first to meet unexpected costs of living. The second part, a folder entitled '2_FAO_Livestock_Data.zip' contains one file of the temporal and current numbers of live asses in Ghana and Burkina Faso recorded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and downloaded from their website (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home and https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL). The third part, a folder entitled '3_Documentation.zip' provides the documentation that enabled the research study to take place in two further zipped files: Methodology and Research Instruments. The fourth part, a restricted folder entitled '4_Consent Forms.zip' provides nine consent forms for the research instruments held with various participants in the study.