Estimating Population Density based on Mobility Data

Population density maps provide valuable insights into how people move and where they congregate, which is crucial for resource allocation and for public policy planning.

Important

This documentation outlines an experimental and exploratory process of creating such maps using mobility data. While this approach may address data scarcity, offer timeliness and other advantages, the results are not exempt from important Limitations.

Data

To create population density maps based on mobility data, we will need access to the following data sources:

Area of Interest

In this explotatory analysis, we employ the Lebanon’s subnational administrative boundaries maintained by UNOCHA Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) on the Humanitarian Data Exchange.

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LBN = geopandas.read_file(
    "../../data/shapefiles/lbn_adm_cdr_20200810/lbn_admbnda_adm3_cdr_20200810.shp",
    crs="EPSG:4326",
)

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