
Overview
This database provides estimates of walking travel time of school-aged populations to schools recorded in OpenStreetMap. Population counts of male and female students are sorted into 3 groups of travel time - under 30 minutes, 30-60 minutes, and over 60 minutes. It covers the African continent and is aggregated by first-level administrative divisions.
Features and programs
Open Data Sponsorship Program
Pricing
This is a publicly available data set. No subscription is required.
How can we make this page better?
Legal
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
AWS Data Exchange (ADX)
AWS Data Exchange is a service that helps AWS easily share and manage data entitlements from other organizations at scale.
Open data resources
Available with or without an AWS account.
- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Using open-source georeferenced data and satellite data products, we construct travel-time isochrones from school locations and overlay subnational population counts to construct a dataset of age-specific population counts within travel-time catchment areas in Africa. The resulting walk-time data can help support gaps in existing education data and highlight open-source methods. Our School location data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a powerful open-source data repository of georeferenced buildings, roads, amenities, and other physical features. While OpenStreetMap is vast, data quality varies by region and many schools remain missing across the globe. Please review the methodological note (bit.ly/MST-methodology) where we discuss the implications of missing data. Finally, population data is derived from WorldPop constrained Sex/Age demographic population images. The outputs are available as shapefiles.
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::my-school-today
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://my-school-today/
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Contact
Managed By
SDSN SDGs Today
How to cite
My School Today was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/sdgstoday-mst .
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license.
Similar products
