ABSTRACT
This chapter has three parts. Section 5.1 contains a cursory description of the southern lowland region of Nepal (referred to as the tarai) that is the setting for the survey data used in the farm household model estimation. It also briefly explains why the question of heterogeneity between family and hired labour in Nepalese agriculture is particularly relevant in the context of the tarai region. Section 5.2 describes the design and main features of the household survey and the structure of the data collected. The last section discusses the definitions adopted for the main variables used in the production function and labour supply regressions, and shows how they were computed from the data recorded in the household survey forms.
