Foundational Datasets, Data Products, & Sample Indicators

Foundational Datasets

Foundational Datasets refer to all datasets used in the analytics prepared for a project. The Foundational Datasets table includes a description of the data and their update frequency, as well as access links and contact information for questions about use and access. Users should not require any datasets not included in this table to complete the analytical work for the Data Good.

Following is list of all Foundational Datasets used in this Data Good:

Note

Project Sharepoint links are only accessible to the project team. For permissions to access these data, please write to the contact provided.

Where feasible, all datasets that can be obtained through the Development Data Hub have been placed in a special collection: TBD

ID	Name	Description	License	Update Frequency	Access	Contact
1	Lebanon Admin Boundaries	Admin boundaries up to level 4	Open Access	Last updated 2020	Project SharePoint	Data Lab
2	ACLED Conflict Data	Timestamped, geolocated points where conflict events and fatalities were reported by local network and news.	Subscription of the World Bank	Daily	ACLED Data Tool; Project SharePoint	Sahiti Sarva, Data Lab
3	UCDP Conflict Data	Timestamped, geolocated points where conflict took place collected based on news by Uppsala Univeritet.	Open Access	Daily	Project SharePoint	Holly Krambeck, Data Lab
4	Nightime Lights	Nighttime lights from VIIRS/Black Marble	Open Access	Daily	Project SharePoint	Rob Marty, DIME
5	Automatic Identification System data	Ship location data aggregated by Spire made available through a UN collaboration. (Available from 1 Dec 2018 - 31 Aug 2022)	Proprietary	Daily	Project SharePoint	Andres Chamorro, GOST
6	Population Data	High Resolution Population Density Maps from Meta	Proprietary	Last updated in 2020	Project SharePoint	Sahiti Sarva, Data Lab
7	Air Pollution Data	NO2 levels were extracted from Google Earth Engine.	Open Access	Daily	Project SharePoint	Sahiti Sarva, Data Lab
8	Mobility data	Longitudinal panel of human mobility data from veraset	Proprietary (Accessed through the Development Data Partnership)	Daily	Project SharePoint	Gabriel Stefanini Vicente, Data Lab

Data Products are produced using the Foundational Datasets and can be further used to generate indicators and insights. All Data Products include documentation, references to original data sources (and/or information on how to access them), and a description of their limitations.

Following is a summary of Data Products used in this Data Good:

ID	Name	Description	Access	Limitations	Foundational datasets used
A	Changes in observed nightitme lights	Yearly and monthly aggregated remote sensing data used to derive changes in observed nighttime lights	Processed data aggregated to polygons on project SharePoint		1,4
B	Trade Estimation using AIS data	Estimating trade activity through ports to and from Syria using shipping data	Trade Estimation data on project SharePoint		1,5
C	Changes in observed conflict	Analysing changes in conflict	Processed ACLED data on SharePoint		1,2,3
D	Population and Demographics	Comparing multiple population related datasources	Analysis on the web book		1,6,8

Sample Indicators

Indicators can be derived from a combination of Foundational Datasets and Data Products. By combining Foundational Datasets and Data Products, teams can, on-demand, develop a large array of indicators to meet their project needs. Indicators can presented side-by-side in an Excel workbook – a format that is generally accessible to the widest audiences. Because all indicators are based on the same underlying data, they are comparable with each other, across geographies and across time.

For this project, sample indicators have been derived and aggregated at the governorate level and by year, to show changing trends in each governorate over time.