 Leveraging existing household survey data to map livelihoods in NigeriaRichard Barad, Erin Fletcher and Chris Hillbruner World Development, 2020, vol. 126, issue C Abstract: Understanding livelihoods patterns is a key component of food security and poverty analysis. The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a leading method of conceptualizing, organizing, and analyzing information on livelihoods systems that is widely used within the food security analysis community. This approach is typically informed by data collected using qualitative methods. However, the increasing availability of large-scale household survey datasets presents an opportunity to explore the degree to which these data can be used to strengthen HEA analysis. Here, we present the results of a novel pilot study that uses large-scale household survey data to create livelihoods products for Nigeria, using a combination of spatial interpolation, principal component analysis, and cluster analysis. We show how these techniques can leverage existing data to create low-cost maps of quantitatively described livelihoods that are stable over time and conceptually consistent with products derived using traditional methods. We also outline future research for how to incorporate these outputs into practitioner analysis. Keywords: Food security; Livelihoods; Spatial interpolation; Nigeria; Household economy approach (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:126:y:2020:i:c:s0305750x19303766 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104727 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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