Investigating the sociological aspects of goat raising in Lao PDR to improve goat husbandry and livelihoods - Dataset

Abstract

A folder titled ‘LIEHR, Eoin Masters project data’ is shared through Owncloud<br><br>

Within this folder, there are two folders: <br><br>

Folder 1: Village SS interview recordings<br> I conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with Laos farmers across 5 villages in Savannakhet province, Laos. The audio recordings of all the semi-structured interviews are stored in this folder. Within this folder, each audio recording is stored in one of 5 sub-folders pertaining to the particular village location that the interview took place in. These sub-folders are further broken down to indicate whether the interviewed farmer was affiliated with the LS/2017/34 goat development project, or not:<br> e.g. Village SS interview recordings folder > Village location sub-folder > Project affiliation status folder > audio recordings.<br> There are 30 audio recordings in total. These audio recordings were used to develop interview transcriptions that constituted my data. <br><br>

Folder 2: Village SS interview transcriptions<br> The audio-recorded interviews were translated into English transcripts by experienced, professional translators that were fluent in both English and Lao language. The English transcripts of all the semi-structured are stored in this folder. Within this folder, each transcription is stored in one of 5 sub-folders pertaining to the particular village location that the interview took place in. These sub-folders are further broken down to indicate whether the interviewed farmer was affiliated with the LS/2017/34 goat development project, or not: <br> e.g. Village SS interview transcriptions folder > Village location sub-folder > Project affiliation status folder > transcriptions.<br><br>

There are 30 transcriptions in total. These transcriptions constituted my data and were analysed using grounded theory methodology (with the assistance of the Nvivo12 software package) to develop the results presented in my thesis.