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Table 1 Environmental information assembled with the aid of GIS

From: Is malaria illness among young children a cause or a consequence of low socioeconomic status? evidence from the united Republic of Tanzania

Variable

Source

Rainfall

Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/africa/index.php

Temperature

WorldClim – Global Climatic Data http://www.worldclim.com/current#ESRI%20grids

Road network

Africover http://www.africover.org/ Vector Map (VMap) level 0 http://www.mapability.com/%20index1.html?http%26%26%26www.mapability.com/info/%20vmap0_index.html

Elevation

Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI) http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

Land Cover, Rivers

Africover http://www.africover.org/

Lakes

FAO Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/

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Malaria Journal

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