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How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty

How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty Abstract The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (FTEPR) project investigated poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia and Uganda. When designing fieldwork to capture poor people often missing from standard surveys, several methodological challenges were identified and, in response, four decisions were made. First, FTEPR focused on wage workers rather than farmers and improved on standard questionnaires when collecting labour market information. Second, researchers adopted contrastive venue-based sampling. Third, sampling was based on clearly identifiable “residential units” rather than unreliable official registers of “households”. Fourth, an economic definition of “household” was used rather than the more common definition based on residential criteria. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpe Taylor & Francis

How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2014 Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID)
ISSN
2158-9100
eISSN
0225-5189
DOI
10.1080/02255189.2014.873022
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Abstract

Abstract The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (FTEPR) project investigated poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia and Uganda. When designing fieldwork to capture poor people often missing from standard surveys, several methodological challenges were identified and, in response, four decisions were made. First, FTEPR focused on wage workers rather than farmers and improved on standard questionnaires when collecting labour market information. Second, researchers adopted contrastive venue-based sampling. Third, sampling was based on clearly identifiable “residential units” rather than unreliable official registers of “households”. Fourth, an economic definition of “household” was used rather than the more common definition based on residential criteria.

Journal

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpeTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 9, 2014

Keywords: methodology; poverty; agriculture; labour markets; Africa

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