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El Salvador’s Registered Displaced Population by Municipality, 1983
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- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- El Salvador’s Registered Displaced Population by Municipality, 1983
- Creation Date
- 2020-04-07
- Publication Date
- 2020-04-07
- Revision Date
- 2020-04-07
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Abstract
- Polygon shapefile of El Salvador’s municipalities representing registered displaced population by municipality in 1983. The data was derived from John Mullaney, “Aiding the Desplazados of El Salvador: The Complexity of Humanitarian Assistance” report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Committee for Refugees, Fall 1984), Table 2, titled “Breakdown of the Displaced Populations (Registered) by Municipality”. According to Mullaney, the source for Table 2 was the National Commission for the Assistance to Displaced People (CONADES). This publication is in Box 206, Folder 1 of the Julian Samora Collection at the Benson Latin American Collection.
- Purpose
- Polygon shapefile representing El Salvador’s registered displaced population in 1983 by municipalities.
- Bounding Box
- West
- -90.132002
- East
- -87.68407
- North
- 14.450933
- South
- 13.155405
- ISO Topic Category
- society
- Place Keyword
-
El Salvador
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Temporal Keyword
- 20th century, 1983
- Theme Keyword
- El Salvador--History--Civil War, 1979-1992
- Refugees
-
Human rights
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Government of El Salvador granted the reuse of the polygon shapefiles for non-commercial purposes. “However, if you plan to use the data for commercial purposes, you will need to request a license and authorization from the NATIONAL REGISTRY CENTER. Please write to geoportal@cnr.gob.sv to request more information.” Users are advised to read the data set’s metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations.
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- asNeeded
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Palacios, Albert A. (Data structuring and visualization); Centro Nacional de Registros, Gobierno de El Salvador (Polygon creation); Mullaney, John (Data compilation and publication); Shensky, Michael (Data Processing)
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Albert A. Palacios
- Position Name
- Digital Scholarship Coordinator
- aapalacios@utexas.edu
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3857
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 8.8(9.3.1.2)
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Statement
- Albert A. Palacios downloaded from https://www.cnr.gob.sv/geoportal-cnr/ a copy of Centro Nacional de Registros’ (El Salvador) “Límites Político-Administrativos” shapefile, which contained layers for the country’s departments, municipalities, and cantons. Palacios deleted most of the fields in the municipality layer, preserving only the municipalities’ name and geometry. Palacios added a field that contained values for each municipality’s registered displaced population in 1983. Palacios derived population values from John Mullaney, “Aiding the Desplazados of El Salvador: The Complexity of Humanitarian Assistance” report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Committee for Refugees, Fall 1984), Table 2, titled “Breakdown of the Displaced Populations (Registered) by Municipality”. Palacios scanned and OCR’ed the report using Scanner Pro (smartphone application), corrected the OCR text in Microsoft Word, and incorporated the data into the polygon shapefile’s data table in ArcGIS Online. This data comes from the Benson Latin American Collection and is part of the Julian Samora Collection.
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- Online Access
- Protocol
- Name
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 263
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- utblac__samoju__206_1__poly__v1__elsalv_pop_disp_muni_1983
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2021-09-17
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8