FI:GCP/INT/436/SWE.4

FISH-FARMERS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: EVALUATION OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND SURVEY ROUTINES USED DURING A PILOT SURVEY IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF ZAMBIA TABLE OF CONTENTS

Report prepared for the
Aquaculture for Local Community Development Programme

by

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1988

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   SUMMARY

2.   INTRODUCTION

2.1   Background

2.2   Purpose of Report

2.3   Content of Report

3.   NARRATION OF THE PILOT SURVEY

3.1   Preparations

3.2   Execution of the Survey

3.3   Analysis of Data

4   DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN IMPRESSIONS OBTAINED DURING LAST SURVEY AND RESULTS AS OBTAINED FROM ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONNAIRES

5.   USEFUL ADDITIONAL DATA

6.   ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OBTAINED FROM PILOT SURVEY: CURRENT SITUATION AND OUTLOOK

6.1   Was the Purpose Achieved?

6.2   Faulty Assumptions in Pilot Survey

6.3   Error in Questionnaire Design

6.4   Guidelines for Improvement

7.   ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE PILOT SURVEY: THE FISH-FARMER

7.1   Results Achieved

7.2   Guidelines for Improvements

8.   RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FULL-SCALE SURVEY

8.1   Procedures

8.2   Questionnaires

Appendix 1:   Questionnaires

Information About Interview

Part 2:   Identity of Respondent

Part 3A:   Current Situation and Outlook: Practising Farmer Batch Culture

Part 3B:   Current Situation and Outlook: Practising Farmer Continuous Culture

Part 3C:   Current Situation and Outlook: Former Farmer Batch Culture

Part 3D:   Current Situation and Outlook: Former Farmer Continuous Culture

Part 4:   The Practising Fish Farmer: Decision to Modify

Part 5:   Decision to Start

Part 6:   Former Fish Culturists

Part 7:   Potential Fish Culturist

Part 8:   Evaluation of Interview