Product Overview
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| AfricaScope Dataset Descriptions 2010.pdf | 4.26 MB |
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Administrative data |
AfricaScope has sourced administrative boundaries for many countries across Africa, similar to those found on Google Earth. AfricaScope now provides them to you for easy access. These administrative boundaries are of great importance in providing reference to other layers of socio-economic and market information. Probably of more importance, data can be aggregated from smaller spatial areas and represented at various administrative levels. |
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Census data |
Need population statistics for planning in African countries? |
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Crime profiles |
An innovative new product showing crime statistics at a police station level for South Africa. |
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Demographic estimates |
Want up-to-date demographic estimates for South Africa at a local level? Since 2004 AfricaScope has been updating the demographic estimates for South Africa annually at a local level. To accomplish this AfricaScope uses a combination of statistical methods and satellite imagery analysis. Once census data for African countries become available we will use the methods to update the demographic estimates for African countries. |
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Economic |
Gross Geographic Product (GGP) provides a measure of the total and sectoral economic activity happening on an annual basis within the local municipalities of South Africa. It reflects the market value in Rands of all final goods and services produced and sold within a local municipality. It is used to reflect the ability of areas to create their own economy activity that is needed to sustain the livelihoods of people living in that area. GGP is calculated by combining all |
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Financial |
Knowing who is banked, what products they are using and who they are banking with is critical information needed in the banking industry to make strategic decisions about what products to offer and where to place their branches and ATMs. This information can be accessed and mapped from the FinScope surveys that are implemented in many African countries. Information on insurance penetration and the concentration of micro, small and medium enterprises can also be accessed. AfricaScope works with various agencies in facilitating access to this information. |
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Living Standard Measures (LSM) |
Knowing where your market is located is foundational to future strategic development. The LSM (Living Standard Measure) is the industry standard when it comes to looking at consumer patterns in South Africa. Over the years the LSM developed by the South African Advertising Research Forum (SAARF) has changed in the household assets contained in it and the number of categories. AfricaScope through partnerships with key agencies has been able to source nationally representative survey data that it has modelled to provides LSMs at a local level. |
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Retail stores |
AfricaScope will systematically capture the spatial location of all retail outlets in South Africa and update them on an annual basis. Using existing lists of retail outlets and innovative methods, AfricaScope is able to quickly and efficiently capture the location of retail outlets across South Africa and in Africa. Attribute information is also collected, including contact details, size, footcount and developers (where available). |
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Shopping centres |
Maps showing the location of shopping centres are required to look at where retail stores are and could be located and in identifying the optimal location of new shopping centres of different sizes. It is only once you have this information that accessibility studies can be done to determine the market share of shopping centres and the average travel times that shoppers travel to get there. AfricaScope has used various sources to provide a comprehensive picture of where shopping centres of different sizes are located. |
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Streets and Points of Interest |
It is not well known, that many African countries have had their road and street data captured. This data has been captured for use in navigational Global Positioning Systems (GPS). AfricaScope in partnership with companies like MapIT now provide access to this information for countries across Africa. The data includes administrative boundaries, roads, water resources, rivers, topography, conservation area, land use, place boundaries, railways and places of interest. |
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FinScope Africa |
AfricaScope has access to FinScope survey data for numerous countries in Africa. Africascope has been the technical advisors for the implementation of these surveys and has integrated the data into the analytical software ESPRI. We are also able to facilitate access to other information, including spatial data, through agencies FinMark Trust and the Financial Sector Deepening Trusts of these countries. |
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| Survey data for Africa |
Through its various partners, AfricaScope provides the survey data for countries in Africa. The survey data is provided in the analytical software called ESPRI. Survey datasets include Afrobarometer, AMPS and FinScope. In South Africa a number of surveys are provided in ESPRI including Statistics South Africa's national household surveys.
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AfricaScope news
General news
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12 February 2012
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12 February 2012
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8 February 2012
President Jacob Zuma at the ANC's 100 year celebrations identified unemployment, poverty and inequality as the three greatest issues needing South Africa's attention. According to a BizCommunity press release he was also quoted as saying that "as we move into the future...
In the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) the leaders of the continent have agreed that for the future development of Africa there is a need for: