Socio-economic impacts at the village
level
The national bureau of statistics of Indonesia (BPS) compiles
data on indicators of human welfare such as education
and health as well as the dominant economic
activities within the village boundaries. These data allowed
us to distinguish between villages with oil palm
as their main commodity (OPC) and other (NOPC) in
the areas surrounding the 23 sample plantations of the
footprint study.
The data set was extracted from (1) GPS coordinates
of the 23 estates under study (nucleus and plasma), (2)
Village maps of 2003 (BPS 2003) that provided polygons
of villages, (3) PODES data 2008 (BPS 2008) that
provides extensive data at the village level. A one-way
ANOVA test in SPSS was conducted to compare means
of variables of interests between OPC and NOPC within
a 10 or 20 km radius of the 23 estates.