AfriPop (www.afripop.org) dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2008 estimates of proportion of people per grid square living in poverty, as defined by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (http://www.ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/), and associated uncertainty metrics.
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 1km at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Proportion of residents living in MPI-defined poverty (poverty dataset); 95% credible interval (uncertainty dataset)
MAPPING APPROACH: Bayesian model-based geostatistics in combination with high resolution gridded spatial covariates applied to GPS-located household survey data on poverty from the DHS and/or LSMS programs.
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Examples - ken08povmpi.tif = Kenya (ken) MPI poverty map for 2008. ken08povmpi-uncert.tif = uncertainty dataset showing 95% credible intervals.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013
CITATION: Tatem AJ, Gething PW, Bhatt S, Weiss D and Pezzulo C (2013) Pilot high resolution poverty maps, University of Southampton/Oxford.

