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Typically the official and up to date source for subnational population is the national census. However, India's Census is conducted every ten years and there appears to not be any annual estimates available from this source. This makes the census data quite out of data being that the last census was conducted in 2011, and we will not be able to update this until after the 2021 census. Thus an alternative source is being used that will be available to be updated more frequently than every ten years. | Typically the official and up to date source for subnational population is the national census. However, India's Census is conducted every ten years and there appears to not be any annual estimates available from this source. This makes the census data quite out of data being that the last census was conducted in 2011, and we will not be able to update this until after the 2021 census. Thus an alternative source is being used that will be available to be updated more frequently than every ten years. | ||
The population series was pulled from the [http://devinfo.org/devinfoindia/libraries/aspx/Home.aspx DevInfo database]. | The population series was pulled from the [http://devinfo.org/devinfoindia/libraries/aspx/Home.aspx DevInfo database]. This source has a shorter time series of population by state, but it will be more up to date than alternative sources which is best for model initialization. [[The_state_of_Telangana]] had to be estimated in this series and unlike other population data sources there is not district level population data availbe to be used for estimating Telangana's population. Instead I used the population ratios of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from my previous population series because I knew that they were accurate. | ||
Revision as of 20:52, 20 March 2017
Typically the official and up to date source for subnational population is the national census. However, India's Census is conducted every ten years and there appears to not be any annual estimates available from this source. This makes the census data quite out of data being that the last census was conducted in 2011, and we will not be able to update this until after the 2021 census. Thus an alternative source is being used that will be available to be updated more frequently than every ten years.
The population series was pulled from the DevInfo database. This source has a shorter time series of population by state, but it will be more up to date than alternative sources which is best for model initialization. The_state_of_Telangana had to be estimated in this series and unlike other population data sources there is not district level population data availbe to be used for estimating Telangana's population. Instead I used the population ratios of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from my previous population series because I knew that they were accurate.