Ethiopia launches open data on agriculture, socioeconomic wellbeing
Ethiopia, with the support from the World Bank (WB) Group has launched open data on agriculture and socioeconomic wellbeing. World Bank In a continuing effort to improve data quality and accessibility, the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) on Wednesday publicly released data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) , said WB statement on Thursday. The ESS is a nationally representative, household survey with information on agricultural practices and socioeconomic wellbeing of households. The launch event is a culmination of several years of collaboration between CSA and the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) team of the World Bank Group, said the statement. As part of a global move by WB Group to further support open- data initiatives, the data will be available online immediately after the launch, it said. “These data can be used both directly by the government to help inform policy makers, and by local researchers and analysts to bet