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Facebook Relative Wealth⚓︎

Table Summary⚓︎

Relative wealth 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_rwi_shrid.dta shrid2

Variable Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_mean_rwi Mean relative wealth of location polygon, predicted using satellite imagery. The wealth index has a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of one. 1% 591,699
facebook_min_rwi Minimum relative wealth of polygon 1% 591,699
facebook_max_rwi Maximum relative wealth of polygon 1% 591,699
facebook_num_cells_rwi Number of pixels in polygon 0% 596,173
facebook_mean_error Mean error of relative wealth of polygon 1% 591,699
facebook_min_error Minimum error of relative wealth of polygon 1% 591,699
facebook_max_error Maximum error of relative wealth of polygon 1% 591,699
facebook_num_cells_error Number of pixels in polygon 0% 596,173

Table Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
Subdistrict facebook_rwi_pc11subdist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, pc11_subdistrict_id

Variable Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_mean_rwi Mean relative wealth of location polygon, predicted using satellite imagery. The wealth index has a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of one. 0% 5,960
facebook_min_rwi Minimum relative wealth of polygon 0% 5,960
facebook_max_rwi Maximum relative wealth of polygon 0% 5,960
facebook_num_cells_rwi Number of pixels in polygon 0% 5,969
facebook_mean_error Mean error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 5,960
facebook_min_error Minimum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 5,960
facebook_max_error Maximum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 5,960
facebook_num_cells_error Number of pixels in polygon 0% 5,969

Table Information (District)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
District facebook_rwi_pc11dist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id

Variable Information (District)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_mean_rwi Mean relative wealth of location polygon, predicted using satellite imagery. The wealth index has a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of one. 0% 640
facebook_min_rwi Minimum relative wealth of polygon 0% 640
facebook_max_rwi Maximum relative wealth of polygon 0% 640
facebook_num_cells_rwi Number of pixels in polygon 0% 640
facebook_mean_error Mean error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 640
facebook_min_error Minimum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 640
facebook_max_error Maximum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 640
facebook_num_cells_error Number of pixels in polygon 0% 640

Table Information (AC07)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2007 Assembly Constituency facebook_rwi_con07.dta ac07_id

Variable Information (AC07)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_mean_rwi Mean relative wealth of location polygon, predicted using satellite imagery. The wealth index has a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of one. 0% 4,069
facebook_min_rwi Minimum relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,069
facebook_max_rwi Maximum relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,069
facebook_num_cells_rwi Number of pixels in polygon 0% 4,080
facebook_mean_error Mean error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,069
facebook_min_error Minimum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,069
facebook_max_error Maximum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,069
facebook_num_cells_error Number of pixels in polygon 0% 4,080

Table Information (AC08)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2008 Assembly Constituency facebook_rwi_con08.dta ac08_id

Variable Information (AC08)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
⭐ facebook_mean_rwi Mean relative wealth of location polygon, predicted using satellite imagery. The wealth index has a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of one. 0% 4,116
facebook_min_rwi Minimum relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,116
facebook_max_rwi Maximum relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,116
facebook_num_cells_rwi Number of pixels in polygon 0% 4,118
facebook_mean_error Mean error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,116
facebook_min_error Minimum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,116
facebook_max_error Maximum error of relative wealth of polygon 0% 4,116
facebook_num_cells_error Number of pixels in 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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