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

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.