Farmers

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Farmers perceptions of risk and risk management

• WP 5
• Prof. Csaba Székely Péter Pálinkás
• Institute of Business Economics and Management,
• Szent István University, Gödöllo, Hungary
• Monday 30 January, 2006

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Contents

• Objective of WP 5 and links to other WPs
• Decisions to be made in WP 5
• Preliminary results
• Points of discussion
• Deliverables and planning

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Objective of WP 5 and links to other WPs

• Overall objective of WP 5 is to analyse farmers
  perceptions of (crisis) risk and (crisis) risk
  management and their perceptions of possible risk
  financing partners (farmers, national gov., EU)
• The objective is to be achieved by developing,
  completing and analysing a questionnaire of risk
  perception.
• Cooperation with Partners 3, 4, 5 and 7 is
  planned and the WPs results will contribute to
  the
• work of WP 6.

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Links to other WPs
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Links to other WPs

• Task leader P4 UPM, Spain

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Decisions (to be) made in WP 5

• Structure and content of questionnaire
• See draft questionnaire
• Data collection method to be used
• Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
• Selection of Member States involved in completion
  of questionnaire
• Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands
  (countries of project participants)
• Sample size and method for completion of
  questionnaire
• Number and composition of respondents in each
  selected Member State

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Preliminary results

• Draft questionnaire has been prepared.
• A pilot survey was carried out to test the
  comprehension of the questionnaire.
• Results of the pilot survey has been published.
• See conference paper by Székely Pálinkás
• Data storage method has been worked out.
• Storing data per questionnaire and per country.
• Draft assistance material for interviewers has
  been prepared.

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Points of discussion

• What modifications should be done to the
  questionnaire?
• (E.g. structure, extra questions etc.)
• How the survey population and sample should be
  determined?
• (How to determine the list of respondents for
  the questionnaire and how many respondents should
  be interviewed?)
• What methods should be applied in processing the
  data obtained from the completed questionnaires?
• (Suggestion data analysis with SPSS)
• Farmers expectations about future risk financing
  models?

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Deliverables and planning
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• Thank you for your attention.