Reference: Bean counting
Reference information: First ghit opened: Apres une petite ANALYSE PAR PILES PROPORTIONNELLES (PROPORTIONAL PILING), plus de 85% des ménages possèdent encore un stock de vivres suffisant pour une ration de deux semaines. http://rdc-humanitaire.net/attachments/article/643/Rapport_M... PROPORTIONAL PILING is a technique used to get people to express the different importance of issues, events and things to a particular community. Here we are USING BEANS TO REPRESENT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY (100 beans in total) and the participants, who are all from the poorest income group called mangkwa are arranging the beans to indicate the rough proportions of people in the four income strata in Bolosso Sorie. http://thecompassedge.net/archives/archive-122003.shtml Benin field work, results PROPORTIONAL PILING for livestock species kept • Uganda field work, Bugiri, proportional piling to assess morbidity and mortality ... www.flickr.com/photos/ilri/4266577052/ Uganda field work, Bugiri, PROPORTIONAL PILING to assess morbidity and ... www.flickr.com/photos/ilri/4265831821/ - Participatory epidemiology uses interviewing, scoring and ranking, and visualisation methods (Table 1). Of these, interviews are the most important group of methods because they are used alone but also complement and form the basis for other methods. The visualisation methods include mapping (natural resource maps, social maps, service maps), seasonal calendars, time-lines, transects, Venn diagrams, flow diagrams. Scoring methods include matrix scoring and PROPORTIONAL PILING. These methods are combined with conventional veterinary investigation and epidemiological tools. http://www.participatoryepidemiology.info/FAO PE Impact Asse... PROPORTIONAL PILING IS A QUANTIFICATION TECHNIQUE widely used in RRA and PRA-derived fieldwork. As the name implies, THE METHOD INVOLVES PARTICIPANTS MAKING PILES (OF STONES, BEANS, DUNG PELLETS, OR WHATEVER ELSE IS HANDY) PROPORTIONAL IN SIZE TO THE RELATIVE NUMBER OR IMPORTANCE OF THE ITEMS UNDER DISCUSSION. Its numerous applications include wealth ranking (to assess proportions of wealth groups, rather than ranking named households); problem prioritization (Mariner, 2000); and, as here, estimating the proportions of income obtained from different sources (Jones, 1996; Seaman et al., 2000; Watson, 1994). It is an interactive method employing ‘‘visuals and tangibles’’ (Chambers, 2002, p. 1) to generate discussion, disagreement, and eventually consensus. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE PARTICIPANTS TO BE NUMERATE. http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/16.pdf
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No numeracy is required by the bean-PLACERs. Bean-COUNTERs must by definition be numerate. In my second example, it is even stated that they know the total number of beans (100). Somebody must have counted them ... Or should a putative (numerate) bean-counter be given latitude to say "There are 5 more beans in this pile than in that pile but I'll say the bean piles are identical because they look the same" (possibly because one pile had more larger/smaller beans than the other (until such time as bean trees can be persuaded to lay beans of consistent age at date of birth)).
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