West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Demographic and Health Survey Data Sets

The West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Demographic and Health Survey Data Sets present grids of maternal education levels and household wealth based on Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) cluster level data for ten West African countries. While the maternal education levels are comparable across countries, owing to different underlying indicators, the household wealth index is not. Education can directly influence risk perception, skills and knowledge and indirectly reduce poverty, improve health, and promote access to information and resources. When facing natural hazards or climate risks, educated individuals, households, and societies are assumed to be more empowered and more adaptive in their response to, preparation for, and recovery from disasters. Education is a key background indicator that helps contextualize a country's health and development situation. The household wealth index is a composite measure of a household's cumulative living standard. The wealth index is calculated using easy-to-collect data on a household's ownership of selected assets, such as televisions and bicycles, materials used for housing construction, and types of water access and sanitation facilities. Bayesian spatial interpolation methods were employed to create country level grids based on DHS cluster point data for each country. Data are from the following dates by country: Benin (2006), Cameroon (2011), Cote d'Ivoire (2012), Ghana (2008), Guinea (2012), Liberia (2011), Nigeria (2010), Sierra Leone (2008), and Togo (1998).

《西非沿海易损性映射：人口与健康调查数据集》展示了基于人口与健康调查（DHS）集群层级数据的十个西非国家的母体教育水平及家庭财富水平网格。尽管由于基础指标的不同，母体教育水平在国家间具有可比性，而家庭财富指数则不然。教育可直接影响风险认知、技能与知识，并间接减少贫困、改善健康状况、促进信息与资源的获取。面对自然灾害或气候风险时，受过教育的人群、家庭及社会被认为在应对、准备和灾后恢复方面拥有更高的能动性和更强的适应性。教育是国家健康状况及发展状况的关键背景指标，有助于对其进行具体情境的解读。家庭财富指数是衡量家庭累积生活水平的综合指标，该指数通过收集家庭对选定资产（如电视机和自行车、住房建设所用的材料、水源和卫生设施的类型）的拥有情况等易于收集的数据进行计算。采用贝叶斯空间插值方法，基于每个国家的DHS集群点数据创建了国家级网格。数据收集日期因国家而异：贝宁（2006年）、喀麦隆（2011年）、科特迪瓦（2012年）、加纳（2008年）、几内亚（2012年）、利比里亚（2011年）、尼日利亚（2010年）、塞拉利昂（2008年）和多哥（1998年）。