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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

(Click for Interactive Map)

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

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > INFRARED IMAGERY

ISO Topic Category

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

NASA ER-2 > NASA Earth Resources-2

Instrument

CAMERA

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

SAFARI 2000 > The Southern African Regional Science Initiative Project

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

Ancillary Keywords

EOSDIS

AIRCRAFT

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)

Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 722

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: (865) 574-7447 Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov Contact Address: ORNL DAAC User Services Office Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA