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El Salvador’s Total and Registered Displaced Population by Department, 1971-1992

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Citation
Title
El Salvador’s Total and Registered Displaced Population by Department, 1971-1992
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 departments representing census data for 1971, 1983, and 1992: 1.) Total population by department in 1971 data was derived from John Paxton, ed., The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the year 1981-1982 (London: Macmillan Press, 1981), 430; 2.) Registered displaced population by department and municipality in 1983 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 1 “Overview of the Displaced Population (Registered) by Department as of October 31, 1983”. Table 1 contained the following elements: Department name, Total number of municipalities, Number of municipalities with displaced population, Total displaced population, and Proportion of national total of displaced persons. According to Mullaney, sources for Table 1 were the National Commission for the Assistance to Displaced People (CONADES), Office for Social Promotion, and Department of Investigations and Statistics. This publication is in Box 206, Folder 1 of the Julian Samora Collection at the Benson Latin American Collection; 3.) Total population by department in 1992 data was derived from “El Salvador”, 09-27-1992, https://www.citypopulation.de/en/elsalvador/cities. The census data presented in the site was derived from the Dirección General de Estadística y Censos.
Purpose
Polygon shapefile representing El Salvador’s total population in 1971 and 1992 and registered displaced population in 1983 by departments.
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, 1971-1992
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); Paxton, John (Data publication); Mullaney, John (Data compilation and publication); Dirección General de Estadística y Censos (Data compilation and publication); Shensky, Michael (Data Processing)
Point of Contact
Contact
Albert A. Palacios
Position Name
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Email
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 department and municipality layers, preserving only the departments’ name and geometry. Palacios added fields that contained values for each department’s total population in 1971 and 1992, and the displaced population in 1983. Palacios derived population values from three sources: 1.) Total population by department in 1971 data was derived from John Paxton, ed., The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the year 1981-1982 (London: Macmillan Press, 1981), 430. Palacios manually copied census data into the polygon shapefile’s data table. 2.) Registered displaced population by department in 1983 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 1 “Overview of the Displaced Population (Registered) by Department as of October 31, 1983”. 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. 3.) Total population by department in 1992 data was derived from “El Salvador”, 09-27-1992, https://www.citypopulation/de/en/elsalvador/cities. Palacios manually copied census data into the polygon shapefile’s data table. 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
15

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
utblac__samoju__206_1__poly__v1__elsalv_pop_disp_dep_1971_1992
Metadata Date Stamp
2021-09-17
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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