Subject area	Agricultural sciences
More specific subject area	Adoption of improved rice varieties and management practices
Type of data	Categorical, string and numeric variables
How data was acquired	Household surveys through face to face interviews
Data format	STATA (dta) files and CSV files in raw format
Experimental factors	Sample consisted of 1028 rice growers selected randomly in main rice production areas in Ecuador in a cross-sectional survey
Experimental features	Factors that facilitate or limit the adoption of rice innovations
Data source location	84 farm communities distributed in Guayas, Los Rios, Manabi, and El Oro provinces of Ecuador
Data accessibility	The data accompanying this article can be found online at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DX3F4T