547 peasant farmers in Brazil's semi-arid region were interviewed to examine health risks from different agricultural practices. The data, collected via face-to-face interviews with a validated questionnaire, compares farmers exposed to pesticides to those using agroecological methods. Findings suggest chronic pesticide exposure is associated with a greater likelihood of suicidal ideation, harmful alcohol consumption, and acute pesticide poisoning.
Use Cases
- Modeling the association between pesticide exposure and suicidal ideation based on survey responses.
- Analyzing the relationship between agricultural practice type and harmful alcohol consumption among farmers.
- Investigating risk factors for acute pesticide poisoning in a specific geographic and occupational context.
Strengths
- Data collection used a previously validated questionnaire administered through face-to-face interviews.
- Includes a comparison group of 236 farmers adopting agroecological practices without pesticide use.
- Sample size of 547 respondents provides a basis for statistical analysis.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and sampling bias inherent to the convenience sampling method used.
Provenance
- Source
- Carla Wernecke Padovani Gonzaga
- Collection Method
- Data was collected using a previously validated questionnaire administered through face-to-face interviews with convenience sampling.
- Geography
- Semi-arid region of the north of Minas Gerais, Brazil