Latin America and Caribbean Population Database Documentation
The methodology and documentation for the Latin America and
Caribbean Population Database are based on earlier work for Africa and Asia by
Uwe Deichmann. The database was prepared by:
Glenn Hyman, Andy Nelson and German Lema
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
A.A. 6713, Cali, Colombia
gislab @cgiar.org
Gene Fosnight and Ashbindu Singh
United Nations Environment Program
Eros Data Center
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Uwe Deichmann
World Bank
Washington DC
udeichmann @worldbank.org
Last edition by
UNEP/DEIA/GRID-Sioux Falls: 3 November 2000
Contents
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT),
the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/GRID
Sioux Falls, UNEP/GRID Arendal),
and the World Resources Institute (WRI)
provided funding and support for the development
of this database. We are grateful for the cooperation of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), the World Bank and all the
countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that supported this effort.
The Latin America and Caribbean Population Database project
fulfills the UNEP/GRID goal of providing digital population maps for the major
developing world regions.Ê This project
follows as closely as possible the design and methodology of the
previously-developed Asian and
African databases.
The gridded population database was derived from over 10,000
administrative units and 1300 populated places.
The documentation follows the same format as that developed for
the Asian and African data sets. Part 1 discusses the boundary and population
data sources. The methods to make population projections and data quality
issues are discussed in the following sections. Part 2 describes the methods
for developing the raster population distribution surfaces. This section
follows with comments on the modeling process and an evaluation of the results.
The appendices include information on data resolution and quality, data sources
for population and administrative boundary information.
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