Table 4 Food systems indicators used in the study
Dimension | Indicator | Source of data |
|---|---|---|
Food system components | ||
Food production (availability) | Average size in hectares of agricultural land owned by households that have agricultural land | Calculated from 2013 and 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys |
Average cereal yield (tonnes per hectare) in DHS clusters in the state | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW. The data was dated 2010, hence the data for 2008 NDHS clusters were used | |
Food Markets & Trade (accessibility) | Consumer Price Index—Spatial and temporal deflator | NLSS 2018/19 by NBS |
Road network (road density)—total length of federal roads divided by total land area of a state | Annual Abstract of Statistics (2017) published by the National Bureau of Statistics | |
Food Consumption (Inclusiveness & affordability) | Per-capita expenditures | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2020)—2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Executive Summary |
Gini-index of income inequality | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2020)—2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Executive Summary | |
% of population below national poverty line | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2020)—2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Executive Summary | |
Food Governance (Public Policies & Private Investment): Ease of doing business index | Number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) per 100 people, 2017 | NBS 2017 National survey of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) 2017 |
% Share of total cases crimes/ reported offences share over country total, 2016 (Crimes include: Offence against persons; Offence against properties; Offences against lawful authority; and Local Acts/laws that cannot be enforced outside Nigeria) | National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria | |
Food system outcomes | ||
Climate & Environmental resilience outcomes | Herfindahl index, data for 2010 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW |
| Â | Average tree/forest coverage | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW |
| Â | Average annual precipitation (mm/year) in DHS clusters in each state. Annual precipitation for each state was calculated (from the sum of monthly precipitation) as the mean annual precipitation in the state, using precipitation data from 2008, 2013, and 2018 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW |
| Â | Average soil organic carbon stock (tonnes per hectare) for depth interval 0 to 30Â cm, in DHS clusters in the state | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW |
Other indicators/drivers | ||
Internally generated revenue per capita | NBS 2017 Annual Abstract of Statistics, 2017 (based on the 2015/16 GHS panel) | |
Share of households with access to electricity | NBS 2018/19 NLSS | |
Rate of mobile phone subscription | Based on NBS 2018/19 NLSS | |
Number of radio and television stations per one million people | NBS 2017 Annual Abstract of Statistics, 2017 (based on the 2015/16 GHS panel) | |
Total employment in microenterprises as share of the population | NBS 2017 National survey of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) 2017 | |
The number of deposit banks per million people | Based on NBS 2017 Annual Abstract of Statistics, 2017 (based on the 2015/16 GHS panel) | |
Average nightlight intensity, 2013 | "International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) DHS-GIS Database https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OQIPRW" | |
Gender parity in secondary school net attendance ratio | 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey | |