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AfriPop (www.afripop.org) births dataset details_______________________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: AfricaSPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84UNITS: Estimated births per grid squareMAPPING 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 2013Dataset 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
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2013. Togo 100m Births. 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/). DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00274