Inferential and Behavioral Implications of Measurement Error in Agricultural Data

Abay, Kibrom A.; Wossen, Tesfamicheal; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; Stevenson, James; Michelson, Hope; Barrett, Christopher B.

doi:10.1146/annurev-resource-101422-090049

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“…Anonymity was maintained to encourage participants to provide honest responses, particularly when reporting their motivations. Cross-checking of the data was conducted wherever feasible [47,48]. Furthermore, the questionnaire underwent a pretesting phase that involved five innovative SMEs to fine-tune its effectiveness and ensure its suitability for the study's objectives.…”

Section: Sample Surveymentioning

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The Energy Transition in SMEs: The Italian Experience

Thomas,

Castellano,

Punzo

et al. 2024

Energies

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Encouraging energy transition (ET) has become a global imperative for nations and companies, and not just large ones. Not all economic organizations pursue this process with the same intensity. Particularly, the factors driving Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) towards ET are not yet clearly defined, despite SMEs representing most companies and bearing a significant responsibility for pollution. To shed light on this matter, this study presents a framework of the main drivers that stimulate SMEs placed in Italy to pursue energy transition. We conducted a Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis on data collected from innovation-oriented SMEs enlisted in a specific register of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The research findings show a weak interest among SMEs towards ET. While country-specific conditions and social and psychological traits affect the decision to invest in ET, firm-specific factors and ‘stakeholder’ pressures seem to be almost irrelevant. Policy measures with a different focus are necessary. Specifically, the provision of facilitation emerges as the most effective tool for encouraging ET among SMEs.

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Section: Sample Surveymentioning

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The Energy Transition in SMEs: The Italian Experience

Thomas,

Castellano,

Punzo

et al. 2024

Energies

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“…There are several sources of errors in self-reported production and land area (Abay et al, 2023;Carletto et al, 2021). First, farmers may intentionally over-or underreport production or farm size for different reasons and motives.…”

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Revisiting the size–productivity relationship with imperfect measures of production and plot size

Ayalew

Chamberlin

Newman

et al. 2023

American J Agri Economics

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Monitoring smallholder agricultural productivity growth, one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, rests on accurate measures of crop production and land area. Existing methods and protocols for measuring smallholder production and plot size are prone to various sources and forms of mismeasurement. Inaccuracies in production and land area measurement are likely to distort descriptive and predictive inferences. We examine the sensitivity of empirical assessments of the relationship between agricultural productivity and land area to alternative measurement protocols. We implement six production and six land area measurement protocols, and show that most of these protocols differ systematically in their accuracy. We find that an apparent inverse size–productivity relationship in our data is fully explained by measurement error in both production and plot size. Moreover, we show that some of the previously used “gold standard” measures are themselves prone to nonclassical measurement error, and hence can generate spurious inverse size–productivity findings. Our results also show that slight improvements in the precision of objective measures significantly reduce the inferential bias associated with the size–productivity relationship.

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Using Optical Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data for Crop Mapping, Monitoring, and Disease Detection in Smallholder Systems

Brown

2024

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences

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Inferential and Behavioral Implications of Measurement Error in Agricultural Data

Cited by 10 publications

References 122 publications

The Energy Transition in SMEs: The Italian Experience

The Energy Transition in SMEs: The Italian Experience

Revisiting the size–productivity relationship with imperfect measures of production and plot size

Using Optical Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data for Crop Mapping, Monitoring, and Disease Detection in Smallholder Systems

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