New evidence on the rural poverty and energy choice relationship

The dataset was generated by combining USAID’s Demographic Health Survey (DHS) country level household surveys with publicly available satellite information on precipitation accessed through the Google Earth Engine tool. The DHS survey information contains a set of data from representative national household surveys. Several years between 2006 and 2016 are available for each country, resulting in a pooled cross-section of 460,780 household observations (see Table A1). Filtering for rural households (defined as households residing in the countryside, as opposed to urban households that…