Abstract

Social intervention in the agricultural sector requires an evaluation of the changes such intervention has brought, therefore without valid socio-economic indicators (SES) such assessment could not be empirically determined. This present work is a baseline information for construction of SES scale for measuring changes in status of agropastoralists especially before and after intervention and for prediction of intervention outcome. This study was designed to develop indexes of SES indicators for agropastoralists (sub-rural population) in North-central, Nigeria. Multiple-stage sampling procedures comprising simple random sampling and cluster sampling techniques were used to select respondents in the three states of the study area to get 557 respondents. Structured interview was used for data collection while discriminant analytical tool was used to analyse the data. Out of 79 universe of cross sectional variables collated, 40 variables were valid indicators. Indicators with high indexes included grinding stone, types of bathrooms, mattress, GSM phone, wrist-watch and donation of cows.

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