CONTRIBUTING YOUR DATA
The type of data we are looking for include all quantitative measures of offtake from any wild terrestrial species. Examples may include:
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Locations of the sampling points, as precisely as possible (with the coordinate system used, if possible);
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Characteristics of each sampling site (e.g. rural / urban market etc.), including any available data on settlement characteristics (settlement size, year of settlement establishment etc).
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Quantitative data (at the species level if possible) on offtake at each site and associated data. Offtake data is most commonly reported in terms of kilograms of each species or number of carcasses of a species. We are looking for data from:
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Hunter follows/hunter recall/bag counts, and associated information on the number of hunters surveyed, and the number of days surveyed for, as well as the total number of hunters in the study site;
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Consumption data, and information on the number of households surveyed, the number of days sampled, and the number of recall days, as well as the total number of households in the study site;
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Market surveys, and information on the number of market days observed and % of the market surveyed.
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If you think your data may be suitable for this project - we would love to hear from you!
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The Offtake project has been reviewed by the University of Sussex and is regarded to not require ethical review, as the project involves the collation and analyses of secondary data collected and published by researchers with participants being non identifiable. The Offtake project assumes that the researchers collecting the raw data followed their institutions’ and journal publishers’ code of research practice and ethical review processes, and that the data were collected in an ethically sound way. We recognise that some secondary data collated by us may be regarded as not meeting ethical criteria. If you are concerned that you have found material on our website or database, for which you have not given permission or contravenes ethical research standards, please use the 'Contact us' tab.