Interview guides: Continuum of Care in Animal Health: Gendered Division of Labor, Barriers

Laura Baensch provides semi-structured interview guides used to collect qualitative data on gendered roles and barriers in livestock health management. Data were collected in April and May 2025 from 23 key informants, 20 women farmers, and 135 focus group participants in smallholder dairy and poultry systems in Kenya and Zambia. The repository contains PDF guides tailored for a dairy farming context in Kenya, with poultry and Zambian guides following the same structure.

Use Cases

• Analyzing gendered division of labor based on the continuum of care framework described for disease prediction, prevention, detection, and treatment.
• Designing responsive agricultural initiatives based on identified barriers and opportunities for women farmers.
• Conducting comparative qualitative research on livestock value chains using the provided interview and focus group discussion guides.
• Studying ethical data collection practices in rural settings based on the described consent and approval procedures.

Strengths

• Clear ethical provenance with approvals from Chuka University, NACOSTI, and a Zambian IRB.
• Specific participant counts: 23 key informants, 20 women farmers, and 135 focus group participants.
• Well-defined temporal scope: data collected between April and May 2025.
• Structured guides tailored for specific livestock types (dairy, poultry) and countries (Kenya, Zambia).

Limitations

• Dataset is very small in scale (610.7 KB), containing only the interview guides, not the collected response data.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any potential coded data are unknown.
• The actual qualitative data collected using these guides is not included in this repository.

Provenance

Source

Laura Baensch, via figshare.

Collection Method

Data collected via key informant interviews, in-depth interviews with women farmers, and focus group discussions.

Time Range

April to May 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 10:26:00

Geography

Kenya and Zambia