Exploration & description

Contents

Livestock species owned       Purposes for keeping cattle
Age and gender of head         Ownership
Importance of cattle             Cattle responsibilities

Livestock species owned

First in the table below we provide the details of the number of homesteads sampled in the Hhohho region, the number of these homesteads that possessed cattle and the number selected for interview for cattle as the primary species.

	Number of homesteads	Percent
Number of homesteads sampled	456	100
Number keeping cattle	386	85
Number recorded with cattle as primary species	164	36

The number of homesteads sampled and the number selected for interview for cattle as the primary species correspond to the numbers of records in the HOUSEHOLD and PRODCAT files, respectively. Only those homesteads that were interviewed for cattle as the primary species provided data for the PRODCAT file. Thus, of the homesteads that kept cattle, 42% (164/386) were interviewed for cattle as the primary species.