Code Book of the SIDE Metadata

library(side_data)
side_meta_codebook() ## loads this codebook

Variables

side.metadata.df <- side_load_metadata()
colnames(side.metadata.df)
sideid

Unique ID for every map layer available. Identifies the data for an ethnic group in a given country, year, and DHS survey. Matches ascii-filename for that map. Structure: sideid = paste0("side_v1_",mapid,"_",groupid).

mapid

Unique ID for the ensemble of group-level maps created of one DHS survey in a given country and year.

layer

Layer-ID of one group-level map; nested within mapid.

country

Name of the country of a group-map.

cowcode

Correlates-of-war code of this country.

groupname

Name of the group as defined by the DHS. “Other” denotes ensemble of groups named “other” in the DHS data, and those that are too small to be effectively interpolates (see paper). If marker == "ethnic.religion, then the groupname is the groups ethnic and religious name, separated by a dot.

marker

One of c("ethnic","religion","ethnic.religion"), denoting the type of group.

year

The year of a DHS survey.

dhs.round; dhs.subround

The DHS survey round and subround. Sometimes, multiple sruveys were conducted in the same country during one wave of the DHS survey.

sample.size

The sample size of the geocoded DHS respondents used for interpolation.

fit.comb

The combined leave-one-out-cross-validation fit of the KNN and TPS models used for interpolation this mapid. See paper for further details.

tps.*

Parameters and fit of the Thin Plate Spline Model used for this mapid. See paper for further details.

knn.*

Parameters and fit of the K-Nearest-Neighbours Model used for this mapid. See paper for further details.