Summary information

Study title

Factors Affecting the Usage of Insecticides and Fungicides on Fruit and Vegetable Crops in Great Britain, 1974

Creator

Tait, E. J., University of Cambridge

Study number / PID

968 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-968-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this study was to develop a method of comparing the pesticide usage pattern of farmers, allowing for variation in the crops grown and the pesticides used.

Science and technologyAgriculture and rural industryEnvironment and conservation

Data collection period

01/01/1974 - 01/04/1974

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

Subnational

Farmers

Farms

Pesticides

Universe

Vegetable farmers growing Brussels sprouts in Bedfordshire and fruit farmers in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample

farms larger than 30 acres growing more than 4 acres of Brussel sprouts; name and addresses of fruit farmers obtained from Ministry advisors and a voluntary organization

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Diaries

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1980

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Tait, E. (0001) 'Factors affecting the usage of insecticides and fungicides on fruit and vegetable crops in Great Britain: I Crop-specific factors', Journal of Environmental Management
Tait, E. (1976) Factors affecting the production and usage of pesticides in the U.K., [Thesis], Cambridge: University of Cambridge.
Tait, E. (1976) 'A method for comparing pesticide usage patterns between farmers', Annals of Applied Biology, 229-240