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Data from: multi-level determinants of land use land cover change in Tigray, Ethiopia: a mixed-effects approach using socioeconomic panel and satellite data

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Abstract

The dataset contains six files from three data sources: (1) the Ethiopia Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS)/Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), a three-round panel data for Ethiopia, filtered for Tigray region; (2) an ERSS follow-up survey on the beliefs and opinions of respondents on land use change conducted in August 2019 in Tigray; and (3) land cover transition data derived from LandSat satellite imagery for years 1986 and 2016. The files include data on household and plot features, prices of land use outputs, a diagonal block matrix of variables for mixed effects analysis, beliefs and opinions on land use change, and land cover transitions. The dataset covers 34 Enumeration Areas (EA) of the ERSS/LSMS-ISA and is representative of the region. It can be useful for studies on land use policies, environmental protection, and the drivers and impacts of land use land cover change in Tigray, Ethiopia. The data were processed using user-written codes in STATA v.17.