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Show APPENDIX A DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA AI. The Rural Socio-Economic 1994, the Economics Department of Addis Ababa University, in collaboration In with the Center for the of African Economies of Oxford Study survey of rural households in detailed information provides ownership Ethiopia. on The household Ethiopian University, Rural Household started panel a Survey (ERRS) demographics, education, consumption, asset and other socio-economic characteristics of rural households. It covered 1500 households from fifteen round. The ERRS is International Food villages, were Policy conflict but only 1477 continuation of a survey a Research Institute the southern part of the country, country Survey As the zones. purpose of the survey was mainly on six (IFPRI). available for villages analysis from the first undertaken in 1989 The 1989 survey was by the confined to because the central and northern parts of the principal primarily were researchers of the 1989 survey to monitor welfare in famine-prone stated, the areas of the country. Nine woredas woredas were were used as a 1994, giving selected to account for the such, stratified sampling was added in was diversity a total of fifteen woredas. The nine in the farming systems in Ethiopia. used in the selection of survey sites. The As farming system basis for stratification. Households within each woreda were, nevertheless, sampled randomly, except for the explicit decision to have proportional representation of |