Data Cover Page#

This document provides important information about how the geovariables which accompany the National Panel Survey (NPS 2012-2013) survey were generated. For an in-depth understanding of how the geovariables were generated, please read this document. The document contains the following information:

  • Links to detailed metadata of all the geovariables

  • Links to source code which was used to generate the data

  • Definitions and description of some of the geovariables if needed

Survey Coordinates and Anonymization#

The GPS coordinates of households and plots could be used to reidentify survey respondents. As such they are considered confidential and are not part of the public use data. A set of anonymized coordinates is provided in the data for dissemination, to facilitate the integration of spatial data and enable spatial analysis, while preserving the confidentiality of sample household and communities. Please refer to this section of the repository for detailed description of the anonymization methodology.

Geovariables Informtion#

Geovariables list and metadata#

  • Full list and metadata. A list of all geovariables compiled for this survey and their metadata are available here.

  • Data access. The generated geovariables data for this survey is available on the following platforms:

    1. Datahub 2

    2. [Microdata library](

Geovariables generation#

Refer to the following notebooks which are organized by geovariable themse on how each geovariable was generated:

  1. Distance geovariables notebook

  2. Climate geovariables

  3. Soil and Terrain

  4. Rainfall(TS)

  5. Phenology(TS)

Methodology and Source code#

For general description of methodology of how geovariables are generated, refer the Geo-enhancement GitHub repository. Otherwise, refer to the IDP_DRC folder for R scripts for thius survey.

Miscellaneous#

Add any information which may be useful for someone who will need to replicate this data generation process or a survey technical person

Contacts#

For questions about how any of the geovariables generation process for this survey, please contact the people below:

  1. Dunstan Matekenya. dmatekenya@worldbankgroup.org