Analysing pig traders in Uganda: sampling issues, marketing activities, and constraint analysis. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mtimet, Nadhem; Baker, Derek; Ouma, Emily
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 28:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 124
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Environment (built and natural) - Agriculture -- Labour and livelihoods - Economics -- Methods -- Sub-Saharan Africa; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1363873
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: An integral part of the pig and pork value chain in Uganda is trader activity. This article reports on a study that quantifies the nature of these traders in Mukono district, a major pig and pork marketing site adjacent to Kampala, Uganda. Little guidance is available from the literature about the sampling of traders for this kind of research, and the second task addressed by this study is to test sampling mechanisms and report on their influence on the statistical results generated. Different sources of sampling frame provided different samples, with some limited overlap. The two samples exhibited distinctly different profiles of traders.