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Poverty Mapping Project: Unsatisfied Basic Needs

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_PMP_UBN

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Summary

Abstract: The Unsatisfied Basic Needs dataset consists of measures of household level wellbeing and access to basic needs (such as adequate housing conditions, water, electricity, sanitation, education, and employment) for subnational administrative units of numerous countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. The ...

Purpose: To provide high spatial resolution subnational estimates of unsatisfied basic needs for use by a wide community for interdisciplinary studies of poverty, inequality and the environment.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 15.0

S: -60.0

E: -30.0

W: -90.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)

Dataset Title: Poverty Mapping Project: Unsatisfied Basic Needs

Dataset Release Date: 2005

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Version: 1.00

Data Presentation Form: vector , tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/povmap-unsatisfied-basic-...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1988-01-01

Stop Date: 2001-01-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CENTRAL AMERICA > EL SALVADOR

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CENTRAL AMERICA > GUATEMALA

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > FOREST SCIENCE > FOREST PROTECTION

AGRICULTURE > PLANT COMMODITIES > FIELD CROP PRODUCTS

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS

BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > ENDANGERED SPECIES

ISO Topic Category

FARMING

BIOTA

ECONOMY

ENVIRONMENT

Access Constraints none

Use Constraints none

Ancillary Keywords

tortricids

Microlepidoptera

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Publishing, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Data Center URL: http://www.unesco.org/
Dataset ID: ISBN: Hyb: 90-75000-18-9

Data Center Personnel
Name: UNESCO CUSTOMER SERVICE Phone: 33 1 45 67 16 90 Fax: 33 1 45 67 16 90 Email: bpiweb at unesco.org Contact Address: UNESCO 7 Place de Fontenoy Paris 07 SP Postal Code: 75352 Country: FRANCE