Definition
CROPLAND reports the proportion of land that is planted in crops, for a 10 kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location. The statistics reported in CROPLAND are based on agricultural censuses and remotely sensed imagery circa 2000. CROPLAND is available for every IPUMS-DHS sample with GPS data.
Please see the User Note on Using IPUMS-DHS Contextual Variables: CROPLAND [URL omitted from DDI.] for more detailed information about this variable, including data sources and methodology. This variable, like the other IPUMS-DHS contextual variables, is based on sources outside The DHS Program, with values around DHS sample cluster points calculated by IPUMS-DHS staff.