Finally, data on livelihood diversification by households were limited.
Participatory epidemiology and face-to-face structured interviews guided by a social network questionnaire were used to collect data on livelihood, agricultural patterns, food sources, raw fish eating habits, and other food sharing during daily life and social gatherings.
Grace et al. [ 19] and Jankowska et al. [ 20] include data on livelihood zones, provided by the Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), in their analyses.
Second, some in-depth analysis of the data from a livelihood perspective has already been conducted (McPeak et al. 2012), making it possible to contrast insights from a livelihood perspective with insights from a resilience perspective.
Over four months of fieldwork in 2010 and one month in 2011, data regarding pastoralist livelihood shifts and perceptions were collected through 79 semi-structured household interviews with local pastoralists and six weeks of participant observation of herding practices.
In addition, to disaggregate the numbers of population into particular land use units, this study used the data of local livelihood obtained from the local government at village level.
For each livelihood data the mhodds command in STATA 9.2 was used to examine the association between parasite infection and sleeping under a bed net the night before survey, adjusting for the separate confounding effects of livelihoods, age and sex using the Mantel-Haenszel method.
10 Perceived needs are defined as the matters that are indicated subjectively by the participants as problematic, as opposed to objective needs, which are based on 'objective' and standard indicators such as malnutrition rates or livelihood data.
Within the nationally adapted versions of DevInfo, there is a wealth of national and subnational statistical data on populations, livelihoods, poverty, health and nutrition.
The t-test was used to check the difference between means of CSI data for the two livelihood groups.
