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Spatial Data from the 2011 India Census, v1 (2011)

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Balk, D., M. R. Montgomery, H. Engin, N. Lin, E. Major and B. Jones. 2020. Spatial Data from the 2011 India Census. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/gya1-wp91. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR.

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Balk, D., M. R. Montgomery, H. Engin, N. Lin, E. Major and B. Jones. 2019. Urbanization in India: Population and Urban Classification Grids for 2011. Data 4 (1): 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/data4010035.

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Download the Spatial Data from the India Census, v1 (2011):

Variable definitions and state codes are available in the Data Dictionary - Excel (.xlsx) [23 KB]

THEME	FILE DESCRIPTION, DATA FORMAT and ZIP FILE SIZES


Population	India Population Count Grid - Grid (.adf) [15.6 MB]
	India States Population Count - GeoTIFF (.tif) [9 MB]


Area	India Land Area Grid - Grid (.adf) [3.6 MB]
	India States Area - GeoTIFF 9.tif) [17.5 MB]


Urban Classification	Census Designations of Settlement Type - GeoTIFF (.tif) [333 KB ]
	Census Designations of Settlement Type Combined with Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) Built-up Area Threshold of 50% - Shapefile (.shp) [130 MB]
	Census Designations of Settlement Type Combined with Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) Built-up Area Threshold of 1% - Shapefile [331 MB]