Synthetic population for NOR

Synthetic populations for regions of the World (SPW) | Norway
Dataset information
A synthetic population of a region as provided here, captures the people of the region with selected demographic attributes, their organization into households, their assigned activities for a day, the locations where the activities take place and thus where interactions among population members happen (e.g., spread of epidemics).

License
CC-BY-4.0

Acknowledgment
This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under the NSF RAPID: COVID-19 Response Support: Building Synthetic Multi-scale Networks (PI: Madhav Marathe, Co-PIs: Henning Mortveit, Srinivasan Venkatramanan; Fund Number: OAC-2027541).

Contact information
[e-mail]

Identifiers

Region name
Norway

Region ID
nor

Model
coarse

Version
0_9_0_adm1

Sources

Description
Name
Version
Url

Activity template data
World Bank
2021
https://data.worldbank.org

Administrative boundaries
ADCW
7.6
https://www.adci.com/adc-worldmap

Curated POIs based on OSM
SLIPO/OSM POIs

http://slipo.eu/?p=1551 https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Household data
DYB

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb_Household/dyb_household.htm

Population count with demographic attributes
GPW
v4.11
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/gpw-v4-admin-unit-center-points-population-estimates-rev11

Files description
Base data files (nor_data_v_0_9.zip)

Filename
Description

nor_person_v_0_9.csv
Data for each person including attributes such as age, gender, and household ID.

nor_household_v_0_9.csv
Data at household level.

nor_residence_locations_v_0_9.csv
Data about residence locations

nor_activity_locations_v_0_9.csv
Data about activity locations, including what activity types are supported at these locations

nor_activity_location_assignment_v_0_9.csv
For each person and for each of their activities, this file specifies the location where the activity takes place

Derived data files

Filename
Description

nor_contact_matrix_v_0_9.csv
A POLYMOD-type contact matrix constructed from a network representation of the location assignment data and a within-location contact model.

Validation and measures files

Filename
Description

nor_household_grouping_validation_v_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for household construction

nor_activity_durations_{adult,child}_v_0_9.pdf
Comparison of time spent on generated activities with survey data

nor_activity_patterns_{adult,child}_v_0_9.pdf
Comparison of generated activity patterns by the time of day with survey data

nor_location_construction_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for location construction

nor_location_assignement_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for location assignment, including travel distribution plots

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_avg_travel_distance.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing average travel distance

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_travel_distr_combined.pdf
Travel distance distribution

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_num_activity_loc.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing number of activity locations

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_avg_age.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing average age

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_pop_density_per_sqkm.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing population density

nor_nor_ver_0_9_0_pop_size.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing population size