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• Geographic unit set name: The name of any geographic unit set which is a set of geographic units that represent a specific hierarchy, for example the official government administrative hierarchy for a country.

• Country: Country name or ISO 3166 code.

Learn more about search functionality in FDE.

You can filter the available Geo unit set versions using one or more of the following criteria:

• Country: Filters by country.

• Unit Type: Filters by type of geographic unit which is a geographic area or point such as a portion of a country or other region delineated for a specific purpose, . Options include:

  • Admin: Official government administrative units such as

  an Administrative Unit (

  • Province, District, County, etc.

  ), Livelihood Zone, or Market

  • FSC Units: Food Security Classification units used in Food Insecurity Classification analysis. These include Livelihood Zones and other unit that may or may not be the same as Admin units.

  • Other Units: This category includes all other unit types such as border points, markets, IDP camps, and crop production reporting regions.

• Results Valid on Date: Filters all geographic unit set versions valid on the selected date. This includes all versions with a start date on or before the selected date, and either no version end date or an end date that is on or after the selected date.

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3. Data Visualization and Export

Notification for selections without spatial data

If one or more of the geographic units you’ve selected do not contain spatial data, a notification will appear in this section saying, “The data series you’ve selected do not contain spatial data.” This makes it clear when geographic units cannot be visualized on the map or customized before download. Selections without spatial data can be browsed in the table view before downloading them.

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Visualize

The Spatial domain includes Map and Table visualizations.

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• Population data:

  • Geographic information only (This this option is selected by default)

  • Include population estimate, including male/female breakdown

  • Include demography estimate, including full age/sex breakdown

• Population source and year: Choose a different data source and year for population or demography estimates than the default.

  • Default population estimates are from LandScan 20222023.

  • Default demography estimates are from WorldPop 2020.

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• Include shapefile attributes?: Selecting ‘yes’ for this option will include all attributes associated with the original shapefile, e.g., ADMIN0, ADMIN1, lzname, lzcode, etc.

  • Yes

  • No (This option is selected by default)

How to video: accessing population data

Watch the video below to learn more about the options to access population data in the Spatial Domain.

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Export

The Spatial domain includes the following export options:

• File format: Choose from one of the available file formats. This will apply to both downloads and refreshable links.

• Download: Provides a download of a static dataset. This will export only the data series that you have selected.

• Refreshable Copy link: Copies a refreshable link that connects directly to the FEWS NET Data Warehouse database server, allowing Excel, your browser, or another application to automatically fetch data from the server whenever the link is accessed.

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