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Table 3 Sources of freely available spatial demographic data

From: Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation

Data (standard survey name)/source

Time intervals

Typical spatial coverage

Typical strata

Relevant variables

Census

    

National Statistical Offices

Typically 10 years

Census enumerator area or courser level

Urban/rural, race or ethnic groups (often)

Sex, age, education, migration status, household and dwelling characteristics

Census Microdata

    

https://international.ipums.org/international/

Typically 10 years

Admin 1-3

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status, children ever born, children surviving

DHS (Demographic and Health Survey)

    

Household, women 15–49, men 15–59, children born in the last five years

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Varies by country, typically every 5 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for most recent surveys (last 15 years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, maternal and child health, fertility and full birth history, family planning, domestic violence, biomarkers, nutrition

MICS (Multi-indicator cluster survey)

    

http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_24302.html

UNICEF (Round 2, 1999–2001; round 3 2005–2007; round 4 is in the field 2009–present)

National, Admin 1

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, status, maternal and child health, child labor, domestic violence, summary birth history, anthropometry

LSMS (Living Standard Measure Survey)

    

(Integrated Household Budget Survey and many others that are locally adapted)

    

http://iresearch.worldbank.org/lsms/lsmssurveyFinder.htm

Irregular

National, Admin 1, some GPS coordinates

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status,consumption, expenditures, income, nutrition,anthropometry, summary birth history

MIS (Malaria Indicator Survey)

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

    

http://www.malariasurveys.org/

Varies by country, typically every 3 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last five years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers

AIS (AIDS Indicator Survey)

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Varies by country, typically every 3 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last eight years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers

DHS (Demographic and Health Survey)

    

Household, women 15–49, men 15–59, children born in the last five years

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Varies by country, typically every 5 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for most recent surveys (last 15 years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, maternal and child health, fertility and full birth history, family planning, domestic violence, biomarkers, nutrition

MICS (Multi-indicator cluster survey)

    

http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_24302.html

UNICEF (Round 2, 1999–2001; round 3 2005–2007; round 4 is in the field 2009-present)

National, Admin 1

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, status, maternal and child health, child labor, domestic violence, summary birth history, anthropometry

LSMS (Living Standard Measure Survey)

    

(Integrated Household Budget Survey and many others that are locally adapted)

    

http://iresearch.worldbank.org/lsms/lsmssurveyFinder.htm

Irregular

National, Admin 1, some GPS coordinates

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, migration status, consumption, expenditures, income, nutrition, anthropometry, summary birth history

MIS (Malaria Indicator Survey)

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

    

http://www.malariasurveys.org/

Varies by country, typically every 3 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last five years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers

AIS (AIDS Indicator Survey)

    

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Varies by country, typically every 3 years

National, Admin 1/region, GPS coordinates of cluster locations for some surveys (last eight years)

Urban/rural

Household and dwelling characteristics, sex, age, education, biomarkers