unit 4 strategies for data collection in a data poor, budget and manpower limited situation by peter...
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Unit 4Strategies for data collection
in a data poor, budget and manpower limited situation
ByPeter Manning (FAO)
Coastal Fisheries Policy and Planning Course, 28/01/08 – 8/02/08, Apia, Samoa
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Key strategic elements
1. Identify minimum information requirements
2. Internal or external sources3. Characteristics of the sector4. Active (you measure) or passive (they
report)5. Orthodox or alternative approach (proxy
indicators)
Key strategic elements
6. Achieve cooperative mind of fishers and others
7. Complete enumeration or sampling
Strategy 1: Identify minimum information requirements.
• Review current use of fishery information - who are using info for what purpose
• If some data is not used, re-consider whether to collect them – keep “need to know” info, eliminate “nice to know” info.
• Redefine information requirements with stakeholders (users of information)
Strategy 2 (external sources): Does information already exist outside of fisheries
department
• Look for other data collecting institutions including non-fishery institutions
• Establish communication with them • Ask for cooperation
Strategy 3 (Characteristics of the sub-sector): 5 W 1H
• Who are in the sub-sector?
• What they are doing?
• Where are they located?
• Where do they operate?
• When do they operate?
• How do they operate?
Strategy 4 : Carefully choose the method - active or passive data
collection
• Whether you measure or ask them to report
Process- ing
Local H/H Consumption
Discards
Fishers' own Consumption
Oth
ers
Export
Catch
Retail market
Imp
ort
Hotels/Rest's
Give
-away
Auction/wholesale
Landing
Subsistence productionCommercial production
Processing
Local Consumption
Discards
Own consumptionGive-away
Non-human consumption
Auction/
Wholesale
Export
Catch
Retail/Market
Landing
Import
Hotels/Restaurants
- Catch report/logbook- Observer report
- Landing Report - Creel survey
- Consumption survey
- Auction invoice- Wholesalers Report
- Report from plants- Sales record
- Sales record - Market surveys
- Custom declaration- Export documents
- Consumption survey- Purchase record
Production flow and data collection
How can we trace this production path?
• Middlemen/women– Purchase from who and sell to whom– Purchase at where and sell where
• Surveys/reporting– Include the same questions as above in; • landing survey/ creel survey• Fish market survey/report• Consumption survey
How can we trace this production path? (cont’d)
• Registration and license– Business license (hotels/restaurants/exporters)– Fish processing establishment registration– Trade permission
• Invoice/Record– Purchase record (retailers & hotels/restaurants)– Auction/Market invoice
Strategy 5 (Orthodox or alternative): Be creative and flexible in considering viable
options
• Think of best combination of intensive data collection to provide benchmarks and less intensive methods
• Use proxy indicators
• Use local knowledge.
Proxy indicators
Population census H/H income & expenditure survey
• Fishing H/H- subsistence• Fishing H/H- commercial• Fishing H/H - bothIdentify
• Production of fish for own consumption
• Income from sales of fish• Place to sell fish
Market surveys
Level of subsistence productionLevel of artisanal commercial
production
Monitor the trend of commercial production
Routine
Strategy 6 (attain fishers’ cooperation ): Incentives and trust are the key
• Community or Co-management (data provider =information users)
• Catch report as collateral for bank loan
7. Complete enumeration or sampling: A model of inshore fisheries monitoring
Comprehensive
benchmark survey
Comprehensive
benchmark survey
0 5 10 (year)
Estimation based on benchmark information but maintain minimum efforts to monitor the trends
Donor support