Nigeria - National Survey of Agricultural Export Commodities 2003, First Round

Start	End	Cycle
2003-08-05	2005-08-15	10 days

Start	End	Cycle
2003-08-05		10 days

Face-to-face [f2f]
DATA COLLECTION STRATEGY
The FOS permanent field staff residing in the Enumeration Areas carried out the data collection during the survey. In the household component of the survey, each household head or a responsible adult in the household gave information
about his household in general. The field staff consisted of Enumerators, Interviewers and Supervisors while the
field coordination team comprised the State Officers and Zonal Controllers. Each State Officer coordinated all field operations while each Zonal ContRoller supervised and coordinated the States in his zone.

TRAINING
Three levels of training were conducted for the survey. Training of the Trainers (TOT) was conducted for the members of the Technical Sub-committee. Twenty trainersttrainees who were trained at the first level training later handled the second level training held in the six geo-political zones of the country. During the second level training, 117 participants comprising Zonal Controllers, State Officers and field officers of the Federal Office of Statistics were trained. The third level training took place in each of the 36 States' capital and FCT where a total of 1,067 Enumerators and Supervisors of the Federal Office of Statistics were trained.

FIELD ORGANISATION
Listing exercise commenced on Monday, 251h November, 2002 and lasted two weeks. Thereafter, ten export farming housing units (EFHUs) were selected for coverage. The Enumerators and field officers of the Federal Office of Statistics administered the copies of the holding questionnaire to all qualified agricultural export commodity farmers in each of the selected Enumeration Areas in all the States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, from 27'h January 71h February, 2003. Through this exercise, relevant information on production, processing, marketing and credit were obtained from the farmers. The crop cutting exercise covered three broad activities namely: the survey of farm plots, laying of yield plots, and harvesting of crops on designated plots. This

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Field services and methodology department,	FSM	National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)

Field services and methodology department,