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Abstract:
The Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality dataset consists of spatially referenced consumption-based measures of poverty and inequality for subnational administrative areas of various countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. These measures are derived, on a country-level basis, from a combination of census and survey data using small area estimation techniques developed for poverty mapping. The collection of data sets have been compiled, integrated and standardized from the original data providers into a unified, spatially referenced and globally consistent dataset. The data products include shapefiles (vector data), tabular datasets (in comma seperated values format) and centroids (comma seperated values file with latitude and longitude of a geographic unit and associated poverty estimates). Additionally, a data catalog (in Excel format) contains detailed information and documentation on each data set in the collection. The collection is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with a number of external data providers. |
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The Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality dataset consists of spatially referenced consumption-based measures of poverty and inequality for subnational administrative areas of various countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. These measures are derived, on a country-level basis, from a combination of census and survey data using small area estimation techniques developed for poverty mapping. The collection of data sets have been compiled, integrated and standardized from the original data providers into a unified, spatially referenced and globally consistent dataset. The data products include shapefiles (vector data), tabular datasets (in comma seperated values format) and centroids (comma seperated values file with latitude and longitude of a geographic unit and associated poverty estimates). Additionally, a data catalog (in Excel format) contains detailed information and documentation on each data set in the collection. The collection is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with a number of external data providers.
To provide highly resolved subnational estimates of poverty and inequality for use by a wide user community for interdisciplinary studies of poverty, inequality and the environment.
This is the first version (Version 1.0) of the Small Area Estimates data set. If you discover any errors or have any comments regarding the dataset please contact ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
The nominal year of reference for the poverty estimate, based on the input Census year.
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold the copyright of this dataset. Users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission from CIESIN. Users should acknowledge CIESIN as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this data set. CIESIN also requests reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts. Additional Restrictions from original data set provider: Spatial data an be redistributed, unchanged only, with citation.
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Spatial Data: Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB), United Nations, http://www3.who.int/whosis/gis/salb/salb_home.htm Attribute Data: Ivaschenko O. (2004). Poverty and Inequality Mapping in Bulgaria: Final Report, pp. 69.
Changes made to the original data are noted in the Small Area Estimates datasets catalog available for download at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/ds_info.html
Country name (in English)
Name of the administrative unit
Numeric key of the administrative unit
Numeric key of the administrative unit's parent, or higher-leve (larger) administrative unit in which it falls
Code for administrative level
Numeric key used to link attribute data to spatial features
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Area of the surrounding spatial feature as measured in square kilometers
The nominal year of reference of the poverty estimate, based on the input Census year
Feature geometry.
ESRI
For a description of additional poverty and inequality attribute fields available, for a given country and administrative level, please see the Small Area Estimate catalog available at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/ds_info.html
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The data are available from the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) in comma separated values (CSV) and ESRI Shapefile (SHP) formats via direct download at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/ds_nat_all.html.
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