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.  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 ..."