TL-III Panel dataset - Ethiopia

This is a three-wave panel dataset of smallholder farmers in the East Shewa zone of Amhara and Oromia regional states of Ethiopia. East Shewa is located in the central highlands of the country, northeast of Bishoftu, which is 50 km to the capital, Addis Ababa. Bishoftu is home to the Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centre (DZARC), which offers production and marketing information to farmers, improved seeds, fertilisers, and other relevant farming information. The first wave of the survey was conducted in 2008 through a multistage sampling procedure. The first stage was the selection of three chickpea producing districts (Minjar-Shenkora, Gimbichu, and Lume-Ejere) from the East Shewa Zone. These districts were purposely selected based on their (agro- ecological) suitability and intensity of chickpea production. From the districts, 8–10 kebeles1 were randomly selected based on the size of the district. Eight kebeles were selected in Gimbichu and Lume-Ejere and ten kebeles in Minjar-Shenkora. From the kebeles, 20–30 households were randomly selected, leading to a total of 700 households with Gimbichu, Minjar-Shenkora and Lume-Ejere constituting 23%, 36%, and 41 per cent respectively of sampled households. Two additional waves were subsequently conducted in 2010 and 2014, with 661 and 631 households, respectively. 631 farm households in the original survey were observed through all three rounds.