Ecosystem Product Rankings and Values in Gera, Gumay, and Setema Woreda, Ethiopia

The dataset includes data comprising information on rankings of and values ascribed to 11 locally relevant ecosystem products (specific products appropriated from ecosystems) by 316 participants in southwestern Ethiopia, i.e. beef, biodiversity, cattle, coffee, eucalyptus, firewood, honey, khat, maize, sorghum, teff. Participants originated from eight kebeles (smallest administrative units in Ethiopia) along a social-ecological gradient and one town located in three woredas (districts), in Jimma Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, namely Gera, Gumay and Setema woreda. The questionnaire consisted of (1) a picture-based ranking exercise to assess the general importance of the 11 ecosystem products to participants’ livelihoods, and (2) an exercise (token distribution) to assess the value types (instrumental, relational, intrinsic) ascribed to each ecosystem product.

本数据集收录了埃塞俄比亚西南部316名受访者对11种当地重要生态系统产品（即从生态系统中获取的特定产品）的排序与赋值信息，涵盖的产品具体包括：牛肉、生物多样性、牛只、咖啡、桉树、薪柴、蜂蜜、恰特草（khat）、玉米、高粱、画眉草（teff）。受访者来自埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚州吉马专区3个沃雷达（woreda，埃塞俄比亚县级行政区）范围内的8个凯贝莱（kebele，埃塞俄比亚最小行政单位）以及1个城镇，且沿社会-生态梯度分布，这3个沃雷达分别为盖拉（Gera）、古迈（Gumay）与塞特马（Setema）。本次调研所用问卷包含两项内容：其一为基于图片的排序任务，用于评估11种生态系统产品对受访者生计的总体重要性；其二为代币分配任务，用于测算受访者赋予每种生态系统产品的价值类型，即工具价值（instrumental）、关系价值（relational）与内在价值（intrinsic）。