méthode des piles proportionnelles

English translation: proportional piling method

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French term or phrase:méthode des piles proportionnelles
English translation:proportional piling method
Entered by: Daniel Weston

19:42 Apr 10, 2011
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French term or phrase: méthode des piles proportionnelles
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"Utiliser la méthode des piles proportionnelles pour l’estimation"

It comes under the question: What are the main crops grown in the area? Is there a "proportional stack method" in statistics or mathematics? I couldn't find any info on the internet.

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Daniel Weston
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proportional piling method
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Sheila Wilson
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4 +3proportional piling method
Sheila Wilson
3Method of stacking crops proportionally (to the area)
Lara Barnett
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Bean counting
Bourth (X)

  

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proportional piling method


Explanation:
http://www.ineesite.org/toolkit/INEEcms/uploads/1033/Partici...

http://www.ineesite.org/toolkit/INEEcms/uploads/1033/Partici...

Sheila Wilson
Spain
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agree  Bourth (X): More refs. below.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks. Yes, it's a posh name for counting beans.

agree  Tony M
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agree  B D Finch
14 hrs
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Method of stacking crops proportionally (to the area)


Explanation:
Here is a video on crop stacking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_IxqGSJnds





Lara Barnett
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3 hrs peer agreement (net): +2
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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Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  rkillings: But misleading title, Alex. 'bean quantity magnitude appreciation *without* counting'. "Does not require numeracy".
10 hrs
  -> Nah, they have to be counted. Everything they list for the purpose is countable, and the individual elements could vary in size. I think there is room for PhD research into the standardization of dung pellets for the purposes of in-field surveys.
agree  B D Finch: You should query the accuracy of this: the peasants may put more dung pellets in the top income category because they think they are a pile of poo!
11 hrs
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