| POPULATION DENSITY, 1998 |
| Data ID |
| File name: | pop_dens |
| File path: | d:\north_central\Population\ |
| File type: | Arcview shapefile |
| Category: | Population |
| Description: | Estimate of population density for North Central for 1998. The dataset was compiled by the Environmental Profiles |
| | Project using information from several sources. |
| Status: | Completed |
| Geographical area: | north-central Namibia |
| Keywords: | population |
| Date of last update: | 1999/12/01 |
| ID notes: | Population density was based on the distribution of rural households, which came from several sources (see |
| | notes for Population Rural Households) and information from Ministry of Environment and Tourism (for Etosha) and |
| | Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (for Tsinsabis). |
| | |
| | In the communal areas the number of people allocated to each household was eight for those households mapped |
| | off aerial photographs, while the Lund Engineering and Northern Namibia Environmental Project surveys recorded |
| | the actual number of people in each house. |
| | |
| | In the Tsumeb area each farmstead was assigned to the enumeration area in which it fell (during the 1991 |
| | Population Census). The number of farmsteads in each enumeration area was counted and divided into the total |
| | number of people counted in the area in 1991. That gave an average number of people per farmstead, which was |
| | then inflated by two percent each year to produce an estimate for the 1998 population |
| | |
| | Populations in urban areas (Okahao, Ondangwa, Ongwediva, Oniipa, Oshakati, Oshigambo, Oshikuku, Ruacana, |
| | Uutapi and Tsumeb, as defined in the 1991 census) were inflated by four percent each year from the 1991 census |
| | totals up to 1998. |
| | |
| | All of the estimates of numbers of people per (rural) household, camps in Etosha and at Tsintsabis and in urban |
| | areas were taken as reflecting numbers in 1998. |
| | |
| | To derive the map of densities, ArcView’s Spatial Analyst Density was used to ‘spread’ the number of people at |
| | each point over a radius of 1000 metres using the kernel method (the cell size was 500 x 500 metres. To that was |
| | added the simple densities (number of people per area) for each urban area to produce the overall map of |
| | densities. The value of each cell in that grid file is the estimated density in numbers of people per square kilometre. |
| | Adding up all the densities for each cell gives a total estimated population for the region of 775 000 people, |
| | compared with 755 000 people estimated in the population projections for 1998. |
| Location notes: |
| Data quality and organisation |
| Positional Accuracy: | 500 x 500 metre grid |
| Vector/Raster: | Vector |
| Data quality notes: | Vector shape file converted from Grid |
| Spatial reference |
| Projection: | Geodetic |
| Datum: | Bessel |
| Spatial reference notes: |
| Fields |
| Field name | Field description | Field source/notes |
| ID | unique identifier |
| POP_DENS | Estimated number of people per square kilometre |
| Source/Distribution |
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