Mapineq Link: Demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle indicators
Knowing the demographic composition and key socioeconomic and health components of a population form the basis of key questions of researchers, policy-makers, planners, politicians and industry. Population composition and projections form crucial information that shapes far-reaching and core decisions ranging from where to plan future schools, health care and hospitals, transportation, housing, anticipating voting patterns, establishing industrial sites, anticipating future market trends to shaping pension systems. The report describes the core demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle variables within the Mapineq link database and provides examples of previous studies that have leveraged cross-national and fine-grained geospatial data to study the life course. The target audiences are media, policy makers, researchers and advanced data scientists.
By Giovanni Scotti Bentivoglio, Douglas Leasure & Melinda Mills
Accurate knowledge of the population composition, how it is stratified (e.g., sex, age, education, activity status, citizenship) and the socioeconomic, health and lifestyle of the population is crucial for research, policy, government and industry.
This module of the Mapineq Link database includes national and sub-national measures of: (1) population composition; (2) fertility, (3) partnership status, (4) mortality and life expectancy, (5) health, disability and lifestyle, (6) emigration, immigration and lifestyle; and, (7) socioeconomic indicators (education, activity status).
Using the interactive Mapineq Link dashboard and database, users will be able to visually explore geospatial patterning of key demographic, health, lifestyle and socioeconomic indicators. They can also examine bivariate associations between two indicators and download the contextual data for their own use.