Ghana 100m Births
Ghana 100m Births
DATASET: Alpha version 2010 estimates of numbers of live births per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated births per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based with DHS-derived subnational age-specific fertility rates applied, as described on the website (general mapping approach described in: Gaughan AE, Stevens FR, Linard C, Jia P and Tatem AJ, 2013, High resolution population distribution maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55882)
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - cod10bth-adj.tif = Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) births count map for 2010 adjusted to match UN national estimates on numbers of live births.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2013
Sub-national, GIS, Maternal and newborn health, Live births, Age Specific Fertility Rates
University of Southampton
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WorldPop,
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Abstract
DATASET: Alpha version 2010 estimates of numbers of live births per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated births per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based with DHS-derived subnational age-specific fertility rates applied, as described on the website (general mapping approach described in: Gaughan AE, Stevens FR, Linard C, Jia P and Tatem AJ, 2013, High resolution population distribution maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55882)
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - cod10bth-adj.tif = Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) births count map for 2010 adjusted to match UN national estimates on numbers of live births.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2013
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Published date: 2013
Keywords:
Sub-national, GIS, Maternal and newborn health, Live births, Age Specific Fertility Rates
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/440100
PURE UUID: 4a4044fe-cd6a-40b2-8ed3-0619281b98bb
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