It is also possible with python. I don't think the ward boundaries are time invariant. If vector maps are available, then extracting nightlight data is possible.
Regards, Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen Research Scholar IIT Kharagpur On Sun, 21 May, 2023, 12:02 am 'Shiv Hastawala' via datameet, < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anisha > > I don;t think the SHRUG data set can be broken down any further in terms > of geographic boundaries. What you are looking for is not readily available > but you can create that data for yourself using vector maps of two things: > granular night light data and ward boundaries for Delhi. But you would need > to be careful about what year each of the maps correspond to because, for > instance, if you want night light data from 2018 then you don't want to > merge it with ward boundaries data from, say, 2004. It is possible that > ward boundaries keep changing (I'm not aware of it since I haven't worked > with ward boundaries in particular, but I know that district and > subdistrict and panchayat boundaries keep changing so I'm suspecting that > the same thing would happen to ward boundaries too), so you need to make > sure that the match between the two types of data makes sense. > > With that caveat, you can do this in free software like QGIS or R, or if > you use Stata then you can also do it using that (since we are both econ > PhD students, I'm assuming you aren't into Python, although I thin it > should be possible with that too). > > You can find the requisite data on the links below. > > *Delhi Ward Boundaries Maps:* > https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data > > https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/shapefiles/blob/master/city/delhi/ward/README.md > https://github.com/IDFCInstitute/Cities_data > > *Granular Night Time Maps:* > https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html > https://dataspace.mobi/dataset/annual-nightlight-data-1992-to-2021 > > > Hope this helps. > > Thanks and regards. > > > Yours sincerely > > *Shiv Hastawala* > > (He/His/Him) > Doctoral Student > Department of Economics > Binghamton University (State University of New York) > > Zoom ID: 201 717 2613 > > www.shivhastawala.com > > > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 1:47 PM Anisha Garg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Warwick. For my >> research, I need the night lights data for Delhi at the ward level, as >> specified in the census. I know that the SHRUG data set is available, but >> it is at the Delhi level, and not segregated by wards. It would be really >> helpful if someone could point me to a datasource, or guide me on how I ca >> leverage the SHRUG data set. >> >> Thanks a lot! :) >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/be650d09-a102-485c-b7fc-0a75b2770241n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/be650d09-a102-485c-b7fc-0a75b2770241n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAGiG-Ay066G8qfVZvyEYj9YVku%2BXygbUMRVFojHfr4u2aKDBHA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAGiG-Ay066G8qfVZvyEYj9YVku%2BXygbUMRVFojHfr4u2aKDBHA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAE7-%3D6H4W1HYzX3Uq5Akf560LrzFzp%2B_YwuaUOghgQb9ktismw%40mail.gmail.com.
