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Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Office Mapping Practice

Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Office Mapping Practice. CSO Mapping Trends. Pre-1979 Updating rural settlement locations on 1:50k maps Updating urban settlement locations from aerial photographs Free-hand drawing of enumerators area sketch maps. CSO Mapping Trends. Post-1979

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Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Office Mapping Practice

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  1. Afghanistan’s Central Statistics OfficeMapping Practice

  2. CSO Mapping Trends • Pre-1979 • Updating rural settlement locations on 1:50k maps • Updating urban settlement locations from aerial photographs • Free-hand drawing of enumerators area sketch maps

  3. CSO Mapping Trends • Post-1979 • Updating existing rural settlement locations on 1:50k and 1:100k maps • Updating existing urban settlement locations on 1:5k and 1:10k maps • Delineating nomads settlement locations on 1:250k maps

  4. CSO Recent Mapping Activities • Post-2002 • Updating location of over 38,000 villages nation-wide and free-hand delineation of enumerators area sketch maps • Pre-listing of households in every residential building nation-wide • Estimating the number of persons per village • Gathering of demographic and socio-economic profile of 1 out of every 200 households

  5. CSO Recent Mapping Activities • From mid-2005 • Training local capacity for digital mapping • Digitization of 2173 topographical map sheets • Digital Geo-rectification of base maps • Establishment of a Geo-database for local administrative boundaries • Digitization of province and district boundaries, and village locations • Demarcating E.As and C.As

  6. CSO Mapping Products • Finished products • Digitally geo-rectified mosaic of 1:50K topographical map sheets covering Afghanistan • Interoperable Geo-database for local administrative boundaries • Digital spatial datasets (i.e. map frames for 34 provinces and 398 districts) • Hierarchical geo-codes for national and local administrative areas up to sub-village level

  7. CSO Mapping Products… • Digital Map-frames • 34 Province Boundaries

  8. CSO Mapping Products… • Digital Map-frames… • 398 District and Town/City Boundaries

  9. KANDARHAR

  10. CSO Mapping Products… • Digital Map-frames… • Province/District National Sampling Framework

  11. CSO Future Activities • Publication of HHL survey results and Afghanistan demographic profile • Digital Census Enumeration Area Mapping • Conduct of a Population and Housing Census • Routine conduct of socio-economic and demographic surveys • Publication of Statistical year book and statistical gazetteers

  12. Thank You

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