AfriPop (www.afripop.org) pregnancies dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010 estimates of numbers of pregnancies per grid square, with national birth totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and estimates of stillbirths and abortions added (www.guttmacher.org).
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated pregnancies 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 - cod10preg-adj.tif = Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) pregnancies count map for 2010 (with live births step including adjustment to match UN national estimates).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2013

Dataset construction details and input data are provided here: www.asiapop.org and general population mapping approach described here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055882

