Data for: DOES DE FACTO FOREST TENURE AFFECT FOREST CONDITION? COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS FROM ZAMBIA

Original data sets on household and community perceptions of forest tenure, governance, and condition. The data includes results from 2,822 households and 249 villages surveyed across three districts in eastern Zambia (Nyimba, Mambwe, and Lundazi). This survey data was collected in 2015 as part of the baseline for an impact evaluation – designed in part to examine the relationships among forest tenure, governance, and condition – of a reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) program in Zambia. The research design employed a multi-stage sampling methodology, with villages selected by probability proportionate to size and household respondents identified through random selection following stratification by female-headed respondents, wealthier households, and youth-headed households. The village survey represents a survey of each village’s headman or headwoman. From the original baseline datasets, we restrict the observations for this study to include households with access to at least one primary forest for livelihoods or consumption.

本数据集包含关于农户与社区对森林权属、治理及林地状况的认知的原始调研数据。该数据采集于2015年，覆盖赞比亚东部尼亚姆巴（Nyimba）、曼布韦（Mambwe）和隆达齐（Lundazi）三个县，共纳入2822户农户与249个村落的调研结果。此调研数据作为赞比亚某减少毁林和森林退化所致排放（Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation，简称REDD+）项目影响评估的基线数据之一，其部分研究设计旨在探究森林权属、治理与林地状况之间的关联。本研究采用多阶段抽样方法：村落按规模成比例概率抽取，农户受访者则通过分层随机抽样选取，分层维度包括女性户主家庭、富裕家庭及青年户主家庭。村落调研的受访对象为各村寨的男村长或女村长。本研究从原始基线数据集中筛选出至少拥有一处可用于生计或消费的原生林的农户样本作为研究对象。