A unique environmental augmented household-level livelihood panel dataset from Nepal.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents primary household-level panel data for the investigation of rural livelihoods dynamics in Nepal. The data is environmental augmented through the inclusion of information on environmental resource use allowing estimation of household-level environmental income. The main variables included are: household demographics (individual's age, gender, educational status, marital status), assets (livestock, implements, land, jewellery, saving, debt), income (from the environment, crop production, livestock rearing, business ownership, wage employment, remittances, and other sources), and household shock experiences (e.g., crop failure or livestock loss). Spanning the three main physiographic regions in Nepal, data was collected in the districts of Chitwan (lowland), Kaski (mid-hil

SUBMITTER: Walelign SZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature