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Ethiopia 100m Pregnancies

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


Region : Ethiopia
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00088
Date of production : 2013-05-05
Recommended citation

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2013. Ethiopia 100m Pregnancies. 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). DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00088


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