Soil Sensor Adoption Survey and Focus Group Data from Kenyan Farmers

Kenyan smallholder farmers and agricultural stakeholders contributed anonymized quantitative and qualitative data for a study on low-cost soil sensors. The dataset includes household survey data on soil health perceptions, management practices, and technology adoption willingness, plus thematically coded focus group discussions. Author Caroline Wahome uploaded the 3.4 MB collection to figshare in April 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling farmer willingness to pay for soil sensors based on survey variables about adoption constraints.
• Analyzing thematic patterns in stakeholder views on co-development of sensing technologies from coded discussion data.
• Correlating existing soil management practices with awareness of testing services using survey responses.
• Studying perceptions of soil health among smallholder farmers from qualitative and quantitative survey data.

Strengths

• Includes both quantitative survey data and qualitatively coded focus group discussions, providing mixed-methods insights.
• Data is explicitly anonymized, addressing privacy concerns for human subjects research.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.
• File formats include DOC and DOCX, which may require specific tools for analysis compared to structured data formats.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Collected through household surveys and focus group discussions.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 07:58:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya