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Facebook Population⚓︎

Table Summary⚓︎

Population data from Facebook by Guanghua Chi Han Fang, Sourav Chatterjee, and Joshua E. Blumenstock

File Metadata⚓︎

Table Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
SHRID facebook_pop_shrid.dta shrid2

Variable Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_pop_sum Total population predicted using satellite imagery from 2021 4% 555,392
facebook_pop_num_cells Total pixels within polygon 0% 576,455

Table Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
Subdistrict facebook_pop_pc11subdist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, pc11_subdistrict_id

Variable Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_pop_sum Total population predicted using satellite imagery from 2021 0% 5,969
facebook_pop_num_cells Total pixels within polygon 0% 5,969

Table Information (District)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
District facebook_pop_pc11dist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id

Variable Information (District)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_pop_sum Total population predicted using satellite imagery from 2021 0% 640
facebook_pop_num_cells Total pixels within polygon 0% 640

Table Information (AC07)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2007 Assembly Constituency facebook_pop_con07.dta ac07_id

Variable Information (AC07)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_pop_sum Total population predicted using satellite imagery from 2021 0% 4,063
facebook_pop_num_cells Total pixels within polygon 0% 4,080

Table Information (AC08)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2008 Assembly Constituency facebook_pop_con08.dta ac08_id

Variable Information (AC08)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_pop_sum Total population predicted using satellite imagery from 2021 0% 4,118
facebook_pop_num_cells Total pixels within polygon 0% 4,118

Note

  • Missing %: Proportion of observations with missing data
  • Zero %: Proportion of observations with zero values
  • Canary variable: The ⭐ indicates the canary variable for imputation, see this link for more details about the imputation algorithm.

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