Godoy, R., Jeffrey Franks, and Mario Alvarado. Adoption of modern agricultural technologies by lowland indigenous groups in Bolivia: The role of households, villages, ethnicity, and Human Ecology. 26:3:351-369. markets. 1997 Godoy, R. David Wilkie, and Jeffrey Franks. The effects of markets on Neotropical deforestation: Current Anthropology. 38:5:875-8. A comparative study of four Amerindian cultures. Appendix B: Naming convention of variables To make easier the use of the panel data, we followed a simple rule when naming variables: The first letter of a variable -- or indicates whether the variable refers to i, h, v – or For instance, we might have collected data from individuals, households, villages. about their height, or from about the number of forest plots individuals households they had cleared for horticulture, or from village leaders about prices. We village merged all information about the three entities in a single row for each of the annual surveys. Variables that start with the letter refer to village prices, but were created V by imputing prices to villages that had missing values. The next 2-3 letters after the first letter indicate the topic covered under the variable. For example, a variable beginning with the prefix indicates that data about the hag variable came from answers by a head [first letter of the variable]; the household answer and data about the topic, (ag), refers to the entire household (h); in agriculture this example, the topic, is abbreviated in the second-third character of the agriculture, name of the variable.
Godoy, R., Jeffrey Franks, and Mario Alvarado. Adoption of modern agricultural technologies by lowland indigenous groups in Bolivia: The role of households, villages, ethnicity, and markets. Human Ecology. 26:3:351-369. 1997 Godoy, R. David Wilkie, and Jeffrey Franks. The effects of markets on Neotropical deforestation: A comparative study of four Amerindian cultures. Current Anthropology. 38:5:875-8. Appendix B: Naming convention of variables To make easier the use of the panel data, we followed a simple rule when naming variables: The first letter of a variable -- i, h, or v – indicates whether the variable refers to individuals, households, or villages. For instance, we might have collected data from individuals about their height, or from households about the number of forest plots they had cleared for horticulture, or from village leaders about village prices. We merged all information about the three entities in a single row for each of the annual surveys. Variables that start with the letter V refer to village prices, but were created by imputing prices to villages that had missing values. The next 2-3 letters after the first letter indicate the topic covered under the variable. For example, a variable beginning with the prefix hag indicates that data about the variable came from answers by a household head [first letter of the variable]; the answer and data about the topic, agriculture (ag), refers to the entire household (h); in this example, the topic, agriculture, is abbreviated in the second-third character of the name of the variable.