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Figure 1 summarises the selection of villages and characteristics of the selected villages.
The survey involved four villages in total, namely Mathangwane and Borolong (Central District) as well as Matsiloje and Matopi (North East District), which all fall under Zone 6. Selection of villages took into consideration several factors.
Source: Suryanarayana Murthy 2012 1. Identification of research problem/framing of objectives 2. Literature review and secondary data collection 3. Selection of villages for the research study 4. Preparation of schedule 5. Selection of sample 6. Field visit to the selected village collection of data 7. Data analysis 8. Interpretation.
The selection of villages which would best suit the theoretical concerns of the study was facilitated by the institutional setting.
The first stage was the selection of villages (containing the cluster) through probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling using population estimates from the 2002 Tanzania National Population Census.
The 3 villages included in block 0 were determined upon convenience considerations; while selection of villages into all the remaining blocks employs cluster randomization.
Selection of village was done through a systematic procedure.
Within each district, five wards were randomly selected, followed by random selection of three villages and systematic sampling (with replacement) of houses.
The selection of 16 villages, as explained above, ensured that each village had an average specified population size and one ANM, ASHA, and AWW with at least 3 years of experience of working together.
The fifth stage involved random selection of three villages from Niger state and two each from Kano and Osun states.
Limitations in the current study include the purposive selection of sample villages - increasing the likelihood of bias, unequal sample sizes for the two livelihood groups and the small sub-sample sizes for the TLUs and the land holdings.
