Exploration & description/Importance of cattle

Using similar procedures in GenStat as described above, and with careful handling of the data, we can produce pie charts and bar charts to examine firstly the importance of livestock generally to the homestead and secondly the specific importance of cattle. The bar chart for the ranking of sources of income (Question 8 in CS11Quest1) shows that similar proportions of homesteads ranked livestock, crops and salary/wages as the primary sources of income.

Regardless of whether or not livestock was the primary source of income, the pie charts show that over 90% of homesteads considered cattle as the most important species. In subsequent analysis, therefore, it looks as though we can generally ignore primary source of income in analysing aspects of cattle production.