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Subnational socio-economic dataset availability

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In their Nature Climate Change Commentary, Otto et al.1 highlight the data divide between natural and social sciences. Where the former has successfully entered the cosmopolitan age (that is, data without borders), the production of socio-economic data is mostly framed according to national boundaries. The authors rightly point out the need for subnational socio-economic datasets and call for a “new paradigm in data gathering”.

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    Carlo Azzarri, Melanie Bacou, Cindy M. Cox, Zhe Guo & Jawoo Koo

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Subnational Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, childhood wasting, and agro-ecological zones (AEZ) in Sub-Saharan Africa. (PDF 813 kb)

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Azzarri, C., Bacou, M., Cox, C. et al. Subnational socio-economic dataset availability. Nature Clim Change 6, 115–116 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2842

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