Assessing access and adoption of improved bean varieties among the bean growing households in Northern and Southern provinces of Zambia

The data applies to ex-post analysis of improved bean variety adoption. The two provinces of Northern and Muchinga provinces in Zambia constitute the biggest area share planted to bean in the country. A total of 402 bean growing households were selected from 67 villages across seven districts for the survey using a two-stage cluster sample selection method. All information refer to the 2012-2013 agricultural season (i.e. December 2012-April 2013). The study also contributed information on gender aspects of bean production, which was made possible by allowing data on decision-making regarding bean management, labour contribution, use of income from beans, access to extension services & credit, and group membership to be disaggregated by sex and age of household member.

本数据集用于改良豆类品种采用情况的事后分析。赞比亚北部省与穆钦加省是该国豆类种植面积占比最高的两个省份。本次调研采用两阶段整群抽样方法，从7个区县的67个村庄中共选取402户豆类种植农户。所有调研数据均对应2012-2013农业季（即2012年12月至2013年4月）。本研究还补充了豆类生产的性别维度相关信息，这一补充得以实现，得益于可按家庭成员的性别与年龄，对豆类种植管理决策、劳动投入、豆类收益使用、农技推广服务与信贷获取情况以及团体成员身份等相关数据进行分类拆解。