Synthetic populations for regions of the World
Published May 4, 2022 | Version 0.9
Dataset Open

Synthetic population for USA_VIRGINIA

Creators

  • 1. Biocomplexity Institue and Initiative, University of Virginia

Description

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

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

Henning.Mortveit@virginia.edu

Identifiers
Region name Virginia
Region ID usa_140002905
Model coarse
Version 0_9_0

Statistics

Name Value
Population 7908211
Average age 37.3
Households 3206012
Average household size 2.5
Residence locations 3206012
Activity locations 729228
Average number of activities 5.7
Average travel distance 43.5

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 IPUMS https://international.ipums.org/international
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 (usa_140002905_data_v_0_9.zip)

Filename Description
usa_140002905_person_v_0_9.csv Data for each person including attributes such as age, gender, and household ID.
usa_140002905_household_v_0_9.csv Data at household level.
usa_140002905_residence_locations_v_0_9.csv Data about residence locations
usa_140002905_activity_locations_v_0_9.csv Data about activity locations, including what activity types are supported at these locations
usa_140002905_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
usa_140002905_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
usa_140002905_household_grouping_validation_v_0_9.pdf Validation plots for household construction
usa_140002905_activity_durations_{adult,child}_v_0_9.pdf Comparison of time spent on generated activities with survey data
usa_140002905_activity_patterns_{adult,child}_v_0_9.pdf Comparison of generated activity patterns by the time of day with survey data
usa_140002905_location_construction_0_9.pdf Validation plots for location construction
usa_140002905_location_assignement_0_9.pdf Validation plots for location assignment, including travel distribution plots
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_avg_travel_distance.pdf Choropleth map visualizing average travel distance
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_travel_distr_combined.pdf Travel distance distribution
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_num_activity_loc.pdf Choropleth map visualizing number of activity locations
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_avg_age.pdf Choropleth map visualizing average age
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_pop_density_per_sqkm.pdf Choropleth map visualizing population density
usa_140002905_usa_140002905_ver_0_9_0_pop_size.pdf Choropleth map visualizing population size

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