Boo, Gianluca, Yankey, Ortis, Abbott, Thomas, Bonnie, Amy, Chamberlain, Heather, Nnanatu, Chris, Lazar, Attila and Tatem, Andrew (2025) Modelled gridded population estimates Kasaï-Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo version 4.3. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00833 [Dataset]
Abstract
This dataset consists of gridded population estimates for the Kasaï-Oriental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It includes gridded population counts with model uncertainty measures and breakdowns in 40 age-sex groups at a spatial resolution of 3 arc-seconds, approximately 100-metre grid cells. The estimates are produced in a Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework by combining population and building count data collected in a microcensus survey, gridded building counts from settlement extent data, and other gridded geospatial covariates. The model estimates and predicts population and building counts based on the microcensus survey data using gridded settlement extent data as an essential model covariate. Although this method incorporates uncertainty in the population and building input data, other unaccounted sources of uncertainty are most likely present. These model-based population estimates can be considered as most accurately representing the year 2024. This time period corresponds to inputs used for Kasaï-Oriental. The data were produced by the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton as part of the GRID3 – Phase 2 Scaling project, with funding from the Gates Foundation (INV-044979). Project partners included GRID3 Inc, the Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) within the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, and WorldPop at the University of Southampton. The statistical model was designed, developed, and implemented by Gianluca Boo. Data processing was done by Ortis Yankey and Tom Abbott with additional support from Amy Bonnie and Heather Chamberlain. Methodological and project oversight was provided by Chris Nnanatu, Attila Lazar, and Andy Tatem. The microcensus survey data was collected during the GRID3 Mapping for Health project funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (RM 86720420A2). CIESIN prepared and shared the settlement extent data. The data has been clipped to GRID3-CIESIN health area extent (version 6.0) (CIESIN, 2025). The whole WorldPop group is acknowledged for overall support, particularly Chris Nnanatu, Attila Lazar, and Ortis Yankey for reviewing and providing thoughtful suggestions.
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