malawi: Datasets for Designing Surveys in Malawi

Designing surveys require relevant datasets to be used as basis for sample size calculations, sampling design, survey planning/logistics and survey implementation. These include datasets on population, lists of sampling clusters, map datasets for spatial sampling, and previous survey datasets that can be used for estimating indicator variance and design effects. This package contains relevant datasets for use in designing surveys in Malawi.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("spatialworks/malawi")

Usage

Retrieve and plot Malawi country borders

#> Reading layer `mwi_admbnda_adm0_nso_hotosm_20230405' from data source 
#>   `/tmp/RtmpdHLjP6' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 7 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 32.67164 ymin: -17.12975 xmax: 35.91848 ymax: -9.367346
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

Retrieve and plot Malawi regions borders

#> Reading layer `mwi_admbnda_adm1_nso_hotosm_20230405' from data source 
#>   `/tmp/RtmpdHLjP6' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 3 features and 9 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 32.67164 ymin: -17.12975 xmax: 35.91848 ymax: -9.367346
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

Retrieve and plot Malawi districts borders

#> Reading layer `mwi_admbnda_adm2_nso_hotosm_20230405' from data source 
#>   `/tmp/RtmpdHLjP6' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 32 features and 11 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 32.67164 ymin: -17.12975 xmax: 35.91848 ymax: -9.367346
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

Retrieve and plot Malawi traditional authority areas borders

#> Reading layer `mwi_admbnda_adm3_nso_hotosm_20230405' from data source 
#>   `/tmp/RtmpdHLjP6' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 433 features and 14 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 32.67164 ymin: -17.12975 xmax: 35.91848 ymax: -9.367346
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

Retrieve and plot Malawi livelihood zones