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peanutButter: An R package to produce rapid-response gridded population estimates from building footprints

WorldPop, University of Southampton

9 July 2020

peanutButter is an R package that allows you to produce gridded population estimates from building footprints using the "peanut butter" method of spreading people evenly among buildings based on a set of simple parameters. This package allows you to:

  1. Produce gridded population estimates using a bottom-up approach that applies your estimates of average people per building for urban and rural areas to each building in the corresponding settlement type.
  2. Produce gridded population estimates using a top-down approach that dissaggregates your population totals for administrative units evenly among buildings such that the population total per administrative unit matches those defined by the user.
  3. Produce gridded population estimates for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex).
  4. Run the peanutButter web application locally from the R console.

Code for the peanutButter package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/peanutButter

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-002697) for population modelling to provide critical spatial data and population estimates to support polio surveillance and eradication.

Suggested Citation

Leasure DR, Dooley CA, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. peanutButter: An R package to produce rapid-response gridded population estimates from building footprints, version 0.2.1. WorldPop Research Group, University of Southampton. doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00678

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