Appendix 10.1 Objective 1: Evaluation of the Impact of Fish culture on the
Health and Nutritional Status of fish farmers households
Areas of Data Needs
- Children weight for age
- Children height for age
- Birth weight of new borns
- Skin fold thickness
- Mid arm circumference
Methods of Data Collection
- Weighing
- Measurement
- Formal and informal interviews
Appendix 10.2 Objective 2: Analysis of the Social Economic Profile of Small
Scale FishFarmers in Western Kenya
Areas of Data Needs
- Age
- Sex
- Marital status
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Education level
- Primary occupation/Amount of time
- Secondary occupation/Amount of time
- Household size
- Household composition
- Housing condition
- Income/sources
- Consumption and expenditure pattern
- Nutrition status
- Eating habits
- Importance of fish in supplementing protein/in comparison with other crops, animals and other Income Generating Activities
- Position of fish farmer within the house hold
- Appreciation of assistance, advice, credit, field trips
Methods of Data Collection
- Questionnaire survey
- Observation
- Informal interviews
- Focus group discussion
Appendix 10.3 Objective 3: Farmers Perception of aquaculture
Areas of data need
- Household objectives, needs, opportunities and constraints
- Available resources
- Diversity of resources
- Land use
- Access to land
- Market availability
- Ranking project intervention and assistance
- Farmers motivation to take up fish farming, priorities involved
- Contribution of fish farming to income and food
- Farmers perception of individual and shared ownership of resources
- Appreciation of association with other farmers and cooperatives
- Gender analysis and household decision-making
- Access to resources and informal credit
- Information exchange among fish farmers and spin-off effect to other farmers
- Mechanism for fingerling supply, feed production and distribution
- Impact of fishfarming on nutrition of children
- Rate of farmers dependency on LBDA inputs and advice
- Specific requirements for fishfarming
Methods of Data Collection
- Mapping (social and resource)
- Transect
- Institutional diagramming
- Time line and trends
- Institutions
- Household sketch
- Farm sketch
- Gender analysis (task, access and control profile)
- Ranking (wealth ranking, pair wise matrix ranking, option assessment)
- Seasonal calender
- Brief formal interviews
- Informal interviews
- Conversation
- Observation
- Participant observation
- Focus group discussion
Appendix 10.4 Objective Four: Economic analysis of aquaculture
Areas of data need
- Privatization or commercialization of fry production centres and feed production and its consequence for extension services
- Cost benefit analysis of aquaculture
- Marketing conditions and structure
Methods of Data Collection
- Formal interviews
- Informal interviews
- Conversation
- Observation
- Focus group discussion
PRA will be conducted first before the questionnaire survey to allow the study team
establish rapport with the community. From the PRA results there may arise issues
which need further investigation using the questionnaire survey.
Appendix 10.5 Data analysis
This to be a continuous process from the first day of data collection. While using PRA,
on spot analysis will be done with community members. Other qualitative data will be
summarised, discussed and conclusions drawn on each day. In this way, issues that
require more attention will be identified for follow up. Those where sufficient
information will be obtained and thus will not require further attention will be set aside.
Quantitative data will be analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science
(SPSS).
