Datasets

× The Nexus Project is a collaboration between IFPRI and its partners, including national statistical agencies and research institutions. Our aim is to improve the quality of social accounting matrices (SAMs) used for computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. The Nexus Project develops toolkits and establishes common data standards, procedures, and classification systems for constructing and updating national SAMs. The 2019 Papua New Guinea SAM follows the Standard Nexus Structure. The open access version of the Papua New Guinea SAM separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital. Labor is further disaggregated across three education categories. Representative households are disaggregated by rural and urban areas and by per capita expenditure quintile. The remaining accounts include enterprises, government, taxes, savings-and-investment, and the rest of the word.

× These files comprise dataset and do-files for reproducing results presented in the article, "Perceptions of Relative Deprivation and Women's Empowerment" (Kosec, Mo, Schmidt, and Song, 2021). The dataset "Data_PNG_all_tables" is constructed from the Papua New Guinea Household Survey on Food Systems, 2018. A detailed description of each variable in this dataset is included in section 4 of the article. The sampling procedure employed and the raw data are described in the publication "Papua New Guinea Survey Report: Rural Household Survey on Food Systems" (Schmidt et al., 2019).

× In May – July, 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a rural household survey to investigate the food systems of rural households in four lowland areas of Papua New Guinea and how they assure sufficient food to meet the nutritional needs of their household members. The survey was implemented in East Sepik (Maprik), Sandaun / West Sepik (Nuku), and Madang (Middle Ramu) provinces (districts) and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB - Buin and Siwai areas of Southern Bougainville). A total of 1,026 households were surveyed. The survey set out to achieve two goals: 1) use the household survey results to inform agricultural productivity, enhanced food security, child nutrition outcomes; and 2) collect baseline data for recently development programs supported by World Vision (WV). The rural household survey includes modules on:

1. Household characteristics (demographics, education, migration, etc.)
2. Agricultural production (crop production, use of household labor, etc.)
3. Household assets (production equipment and consumer durables, livestock ownership, and housing quality)
4. Income apart from own agricultural activities (wage employment, own business activities, and income transfers and gifts)
5. Consumption and expenditures (nonfood expenditures, food consumption, and dietary diversity)
6. Economic shocks and food insecurity (perceptions of poverty, recent food insecurity, and health and nutrition extension)
7. Gender roles and social expectations (asked separately for men and women)
8. Female health (pregnancy care and breastfeeding practices)
9. Child health (healthcare, vaccinations, and anthropometry)