Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG)

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Naveen Francis

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Sep 4, 2019, 9:42:45 PM9/4/19
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Paul Novosad

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Sep 4, 2019, 9:54:56 PM9/4/19
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Hi Naveen, thanks for sharing this.

We are big fans of Datameet and were planning to post about our new dataset here as well.

The SHRUG (spatial high resolution rural-urban geographic data platform for India) is at heart a backbone of village and town identifiers that consistently link together population census units from 1991 to 2011 and economic census units from 1990 to 2013.  This backbone makes it very easy to link datasets from anywhere in this period, since most data can usually be linked to at least one of these censuses.

We have also aggregated and included a whole host of data that we collected in our research over the years. This includes:
- aggregate non-farm employment counts from the Economic Censuses (1990-2013)
- demographic and village/town public goods variables from the Population Censuses (1991-2011)
- average village consumption and share of workers in agriculture from the 2012 SECC
- remote sensed forest cover and night lights
- road completion data from PMGSY
- all these same data aggregated to legislative constituencies and matched to election results and candidate affidavits with criminality, assets and liabilities.

We plan to continue to develop and add data to this platform. We have also tried to structure it in a way so that other researchers and data enthusiasts can easily share their own data with SHRUG identifiers, making it more available to the rest of the community. (Though any data posted with census identifiers can also be readily linked to SHRUG).

We hope that people both find this to be a useful tool and contribute to SHRUG. We also welcome feedback, suggestions or bug reports at feed...@devdatalab.org.

Regards,

Paul




On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:42 PM Naveen Francis <nave...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Deepak Sharda

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May 6, 2020, 8:12:00 AM5/6/20
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Is this the same data you are referring to. 
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