Geocoded Global China Data

Forthcoming 2024: AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0

Summary

This dataset (forthcoming 2024) provides geospatial features representing the locations of project activities for a subset of the 3.0 version of AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance (GCDF) dataset.

Official Citation

Goodman, S., Zhang, S., Malik, A. Parks, B.C., and Hall, J. 2024. AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary.

Date Published

November 6, 2023

Full Description

Forthcoming 2024

The Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0 provides geospatial features representing the locations of project activities for 13,908 projects from the 3.0 version of AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance (GCDF) dataset. Geospatial features included in the 3.0 version of AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset cover 148 countries and represent activities worth over $830 billion (in constant 2021 USD). The features are based on data from OpenStreetMap and include 8,797 spatial definitions of buildings, roads, and other precise features, as well as 5,111 locations of approximate or administrative level locations.

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