When engaging in research or community-based studies, the utilization of various tools within Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) becomes integral. Among these tools, the ranking and scoring exercise stands out as a methodological approach.

1. Ranking and
Scoring Exercises
Presented by
Rajesh Mondal

2. Placing something in order.
Putting things is order,
scoring relates to the weight
people give to the different
items.

3. Guidelines for Rankings
Let people do it own way
Use people’s own units of measurement
Use people’s own names for whatever is to
be ranked
See if we can adopt local games for
ranking
Probe the reasons for the order of ranking.

4. Wealth
Ranking
Direct
Matrix
Ranking
Preference
Ranking

5. Preference Ranking is a participatory technique that allows
analyzing and identifying problems or preferences
stakeholder share in order to implement adequate
improvements and solutions in their community and area.

6. Process of Preference Ranking

8. Problems Ranking
Pregnancy 5
Lack of
facilities
3
Early
Marriage
3
School Fees 3
Distance from
Home
1
So here main problem is Pregnancy. Then lack of facility, early marriage and
school fees.

9.  'Direct matrix ranking'
describes the method
because it moves quickly
from early discussion and
questioning to recording
respondents' views directly
onto a table or matrix.
It is simple, quick,
and informative, and
everyone seems to
learn something
from it.

10. Process of Direct Matrix Ranking
1)Ask people to choose an important objects
2)List the most important items and elicit criteria by asking
3)List all criteria.
4)Draw up a matrix
5)For each criteria ask which object is best
6)Ask ‘ which criterion is most important’
7)Force a choice

12. Wealth ranking
is used to
understand the
people's perceptions
of wealth and
welfare in their own
village.

13. 1) Write the name of household head
on a separate card.
2) A number of key informants who
know the village and its
inhabitants very well are asked to
sort the cards in as many piles as
there are wealth categories in the
community, using their own
criteria.
3) After sorting, ask the informants
for the wealth criteria for each pile
and differences between the piles.
Assure the informants of
confidentiality and do not discuss
the ranks of individual families, so
as not to cause bad feelings within
the community.
4) List local criteria and indicators
derived from the ranking
discussion.
Process of Wealth Ranking

16. Not
workable in
larger
communities
Difficult,
tiring
and
confused
Bias

17. Ranking is an important tool in PRA.
We can know the actual problems of
village by pairwise ranking.
By wealth ranking we can know the
wealth status of the village. In real
how many people have more assets
and surplus.