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Where can I find data on African higher education institutions?
The World Bank data is useful, but not comprehensive. You might also want to keep an eye on data posted to openAFRICA.net for examination & graduation results, as well as data about education ...
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Data on the number of cats and dogs kept as pets in Asia and Africa
This Paper provides tables of ownership estimates of dogs and cats for most world countries. There is a description of the collection methodology.
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Where can I find earthquake resistant school design?
I'm not sure why schools in Africa should be designed in any different way than buildings for housing people for other purposes elsewhere. There might be constraints to do with cost, availability of ...
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Seeking globally available road data for medium-scaled maps (1:200.000)
Despite your reluctance to use OSM data, check out osmfilter, and in particular objectfilter, which is exactly designed for this purpose.
./osmfilter africa.osm --keep="highway=primary =secondary" &...
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Data on radio station tower locations in Africa
OpenCellid is an open cell tower database offered by Unwired Labs and claims to be "The world's largest Open Database of Cell Towers". You simply need to sign up for an API key to access the data via ...
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Where can I get vector datasets for Nasarawa state in Nigeria?
You can get some spatial data by selcting your country name. http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata?
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Open data on African social networks at the micro level
This doesn't exist as of now. There are very limited datasets on social networks at the micro-level. Especially if you're interested in full village census, you are restricted to very few data sets ...
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Coordinates of villages in The Gambia/Senegal
You can find the information you are looking for (cities, villages, populated places) with their local and english name and coordinates at the US National Geospatial Agency's (NGA) Geographic Name ...
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Coordinates of villages in The Gambia/Senegal
Have you taken a look at Open Street Map (OSM)? The data are downloadable and it is always being updated. If you happen to have more detail than OSM, you could always contribute to the data set.
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Annual Mean temperature of Africa countries for past 50 years?
A good source 1961-1999 is http://gaez.fao.org/Main.html#
lots of atmospheric parameters can be found at (1979-2015):
http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/
You can use zonal ...
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Data on ethnicity of African names
I guess something like that would have to be computed from micro-data, prior to anonymization. Ideal would be censuses, but they are always conducted by the local statistical agencies and anonymized ...
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Data on alcohol usage, addictions, disease in Africa
usaid's demographic and health surveys collect alcohol consumption in some surveys. you could start working with the microdata here
http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/demographic%20and%20health%...
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Rainfall, climate change data
The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts hosts a database with this information here: http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/
They require you to create an ...
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Spatial Wind Direction/Speed Data
The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts hosts a database with this information here: http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/
You'll want the 10 metre U wind ...
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Data on radio station tower locations in Africa
Open Street Map has some data on radio towers.
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Theewaterskloof Dam Bathymetry
Inland bathymetry data for South Africa is not easy to locate. I found some sources that seem promising. I don't have time right now to fully dig through each of these sources to see if they have ...
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Georeferenced data on archeological discoveries in Africa
You'll often have a hard time finding open data relatively to that, as this kind of data is generally restricted or obfuscated to limit risk of archeological looting.
For North Africa, there is the ...
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Landsat 5 missing archives in Africa
not sure about why. I am currently doing a project on Nigeria, and I have had issues finding particular images. I am using Landsat 8, 7 gave me murky images. Have you tried other landsat satellites?
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Social trust/faith in political system datasets for Africa pre-2000?
For 1995-1999, there would be the Corruption Perception Index from Transparency International which includes some African countries.
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I am looking for data on temperature by country
You can try:
https://www.globalclimatemonitor.org/#
There you can select data by country and of course you can download time series data.
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Tanzania Life Table
Tanzania Life Table 2013
data collected from UNICEF website “State of the World children 2015 Tanzania Statistical table”
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Zimbabwe Satelitte Imagery
If this is what you are lookkng for and I'd check them out:
https://openaerialmap.org/
https://cidr.cr.usgs.gov/login/?RET_ADDR=https%3A%2F%2Fcidr.cr.usgs.gov%2F
https://www.datadoors.net/...
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Where can I find Open Data on Nigeria's Annual Budget?
Nigeria has a federal level open data site: http://data.edostate.gov.ng/
The link below is to the category on Finance. Of the datasets listed, one is labeled 2015 Budget.
http://data.edostate.gov.ng/...
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Facebook data Africa
that would be a very lengthy procedure, what you are looking to do is data-scrape using facebook's api. This could be built in python. Take a look on google for a few tutorials. There are some data ...
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Coordinates of villages in The Gambia/Senegal
I find Genomes (geonames.org) as currently the most comprehensive source still for town/village coordinates in that region of Africa. A lot of work has been added as part of the International Aid ...
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Open datasets for affiliation networks between African farmers?
You might also want to keep an eye on the independent think tanks & research organisations that post their data on openAFRICA.net.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), for ...
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Data on alcohol usage, addictions, disease in Africa
The Data on Alcohol and Tobacco in Africa (DATA) research unit based at the University of Cape Town makes its microlevel data (such as from surveys) available.
To access this data you can use the ...
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