PWC.Municipalities: Population weighted centroids of the Municipalities in...

In SpatialAcc: Spatial Accessibility Measures

Population weighted centroids of the Municipalities in Greece.

Description

Population weighted centroids of Municipalities in Greece (Programme Kallikratis).

Usage

data("PWC.Municipalities")

Format

A data frame with 326 observations on the following 6 variables.

KallCode

a character vector of municipality codes to link with data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.)

pwX

a numeric vector of population weighted x coordinates (GGRS87 / Greek Grid)

pwY

a numeric vector of population weighted y coordinates (GGRS87 / Greek Grid)

Pop

a numeric vector of population according to the 2011 Census for Population in Greece

Lat

a numeric vector of municipalities' latitudes (WGS84)

Lon

a numeric vector of municipalities' longitudes (WGS84)

Details

The population weighted centroids for the 325 Municipalities and the Holy Mountain (Agion Oros) in Greece were computed based on the 13,548 settlements' x and y coordinates and their total population in 2011.

References

Kalogirou, S. (2017). Spatial inequality in the accessibility to hospitals in Greece, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-4/W2, 91-94, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W2-91-2017.

Examples

data(PWC.Municipalities)
plot(PWC.Municipalities$pwX,PWC.Municipalities$pwY)
summary(PWC.Municipalities$Pop)

SpatialAcc documentation built on May 29, 2024, 2:44 a.m.