Block-Level Sociodemographic from 2005 and 2018 Demographic Census

This dataset is part of the ESCALA (Study of Urban Health and Climate Change in Informal Settlements in Latin America) project that was funded by the Lacuna Fund of the Meridian Institute https://lacunafund.org/. This dataset contains aggregated household and individual sociodemographic data at the block-level from the 2005 and 2018 National Demographic Census. The data were downloaded from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE). The data were not validated independently. Census data were provided at the level of persons, households, dwellings and spatial data (city blocks). To relate non-spatial and spatial data, city block codes (22 characters) were generated by concatenating the department code (2 characters), municipality (3 characters), class (1 character), rural sector (3 characters),rural section (2 characters), population center (3 characters), urban sector (4 characters), urban section (2 characters) and city block (2 characters).These codes were linked to the persons database. The 2005 and 2018 educational level and employment status census data had two additional categories with no clear definition in the census documentation ("Not applicable" and "Not reported"). Those categories were merged into the "Not reported" category. The 2005 and 2018 census data were merged into one dataset with the following attributes: city block code, census year, sex, educational level, and employment status, combining the multiple categories of socioeconomic variables.