@article{Meilby:199799,
      recid = {199799},
      author = {Meilby, Henrik and Burgess, N. and Chamshama, S. and  Kajembe, G. and Lund, J.F. and Ngaga, Y. and Ngowi, S. and  Njana, M. and Skeie, K. and Theilade, I. and Treue, T.},
      title = {Wealth ranking in 12 Tanzanian villages – turning failure  into triumph},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2012-05},
      number = {1333-2016-103813},
      pages = {1},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Rapid Rural Appraisal techniques are frequently used for  wealth-ranking of households in rural
communities. The main  justifications of such approaches are that they are fast,  allow prestratification
of households in preparation for  surveys and that they have been shown to have at
least some  empirical validity as means of stratifying households by  socio-economic status.
Sometimes, however, the  participatory process may fail to produce consistent wealth  categories,
or people refuse to accept labels such as  ‘poor’ and ‘rich’ and/or are reluctant to assign  such
categories to households within their village. A  household survey in Tanzania was conducted in
12 villages  across eastern Tanzania in 2008-2010. In all villages a  participatory wealth ranking
exercise was conducted and  used for stratification of households. Sample households  (n=40 per
village) were allocated proportionally to wealth  categories. The structured household survey
emphasized  assets, income, and perceived effects of Participatory  Forest Management. The
value of individual non-productive  assets was estimated through a follow-up survey  and
combined with results from the household survey to  estimate total value of assets for each
household. In this  study the original, partly inconsistent wealth ranking is  examined and
compared with estimated incomes and asset  values. Next, alternative wealth classification rules
are  introduced and resulting classification outcomes are  examined and discussed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199799},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199799},
}