Pesticide Storage and Disposal Practices Among Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria

Ibarapa North Local Government Area, Nigeria, is the geographic scope for this dataset. It contains survey data from 162 smallholder farmers, collected by Shade J. Akinsete via a structured questionnaire. The data, last updated in April 2026, includes knowledge scores, hygiene habits, and personal protective equipment use related to pesticide handling.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between knowledge scores and unsafe hygiene habits based on the reported statistical significance.
• Analyzing the prevalence of personal protective equipment use based on the reported percentages for goggles, coveralls, head covers, and gloves.
• Identifying common pesticide exposure routes based on the reported frequencies for inhalation, dermal, oral, and eye contact.
• Assessing unsafe disposal practices based on the reported rate of empty container disposal on farms.

Strengths

• Includes specific demographic statistics: mean age of 42.4 years, 85.0% male, and 32.9% with tertiary education.
• Reports calculated mean scores for knowledge (7.9) and hygiene habits (5.8), providing quantitative metrics.
• Contains validated survey data from a defined population of 162 farmers using a two-stage sampling method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single local government area in Nigeria, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Shade J. Akinsete

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using a validated structured questionnaire and a two-stage sampling method.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:24:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ibarapa North Local Government Area, Nigeria