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Poverty Mapping Project: Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_PMP_IMR

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Summary

Abstract: The Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates consists of estimates of infant mortality rates for the year 2000. The infant mortality rate for a region or country is defined as the number of children who die before their first birthday for every 1,000 live births. The data products include a shapefile (vector data) of rates, grids (raster data) of rates (per 10,000 live births in order to preserve ...

Purpose: To provide a global subnational map of infant mortality rate estimates that can be used by a wide user community in interdisciplinary studies of health, poverty and the environment.

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Data download page.

Link: GET RELATED VISUALIZATION

Description: Maps in PDF and PNG formats.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 85.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

Dataset Title: Poverty Mapping Project: Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates

Dataset Release Date: 2005

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

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

Version: 1.00

Data Presentation Form: raster, vector, tabular, map

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/povmap-global-subnational...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2000-01-01

Stop Date: 2000-01-01

Location Keywords

OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION DISTRIBUTION

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION SIZE

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > MORTALITY > INFANT MORTALITY RATES

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > PUBLIC HEALTH

ISO Topic Category

HEALTH

SOCIETY

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

PMP > Poverty Mapping Project

Quality See http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/methods_global.jsp.

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold the copyright
of this dataset. Users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or
...

Ancillary Keywords

CIESIN > Human and Environmental Health > Vital Statistics > Infant Mortality

CIESIN > Human Attitudes, Preferences, and Behavior > Consumer Behavior > Poverty

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

SEDAC

Data Center

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Data Center URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/
Dataset ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_PMP_IMR

Data Center Personnel
Name: SEDAC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 845-365-8920 Fax: +1 845-365-8922 Email: ciesin.info at ciesin.columbia.edu Contact Address: 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000 City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964 Country: USA

World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment

Data Center URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc/
Dataset ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_PMP_IMR

Data Center Personnel
Name: ROBERT CHEN Phone: 1-845-365-8952 Fax: 1-845-365-8922 Email: bchen at ciesin.columbia.edu Contact Address: WDC for Human Interactions in the Environment CIESIN/Columbia University P. O. Box 1000 61 Route 9W City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964 Country: USA

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