Synthetic population for KEN

Synthetic populations for regions of the World (SPW) | Kenya
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
Kenya

Region ID
ken

Model
coarse

Version
0_9_0_adm1

Statistics

Name
Value

Population
39129968.0

Average age
21.6

Households
10938486.0

Average household size
3.6

Residence locations
10938486.0

Activity locations
838758.0

Average number of activities
5.4

Average travel distance
134.7

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
DHS

https://dhsprogram.com

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 (ken_data_v_0_9.zip)

Filename
Description

ken_person_v_0_9.csv
Data for each person including attributes such as age, gender, and household ID.

ken_household_v_0_9.csv
Data at household level.

ken_residence_locations_v_0_9.csv
Data about residence locations

ken_activity_locations_v_0_9.csv
Data about activity locations, including what activity types are supported at these locations

ken_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

ken_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

ken_household_grouping_validation_v_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for household construction

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

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

ken_location_construction_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for location construction

ken_location_assignement_0_9.pdf
Validation plots for location assignment, including travel distribution plots

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_avg_travel_distance.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing average travel distance

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_travel_distr_combined.pdf
Travel distance distribution

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_num_activity_loc.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing number of activity locations

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_avg_age.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing average age

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_pop_density_per_sqkm.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing population density

ken_ken_ver_0_9_0_pop_size.pdf
Choropleth map visualizing population size