Glossary
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3W | Who does What Where When' maps or tables. These depend heavily on CODs and particularly their associated gazetteers. 3W information and examples |
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Administrative boundary | A geographic polygon or polygons representing the perimeter of one administrative unit. |
Administrative hierarchy | A set of recognised and hierarchical levels of administrative authority and geographic partition of a country or territory. Increasing administrative level numbers represent lower (geographically smaller and administratively subservient) units, with administrative level 0 representing the entire country, administrative level 1 representing the next lower level, and so on.
In some countries, an administrative level may consist of more than one type of administrative unit.
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Administrative level | The numeric level in the Administrative hierarchy. Level 0 represents the entire country, and larger numbers represent deeper hierarchical levels. The term 'administrative level' is a useful generic replacement for actual terms that vary between countries and sometimes which are not consistent within a country. For example, as some administrative level 1 units in Canada are 'provinces' and others are 'territories', and as administrative level 1 units in Cameroon are called 'regions'. Furthermore these terms can be represented differently in different languages. The suggested standard abbreviation for particular levels is “ADM1”, “ADM3”, etc. |
Administrative unit | An individual place in the administrative structure of a country. “Texas”, for example, is an administrative unit at administrative level 1 for the United States of America. Each administrative unit occupies a record in the gazetteer or COD-AB or COD-PS tables for its particular administrative level. That record contains the administrative unit name, in one or more languages, and the administrative unit P-code. |
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Business intelligence | Business intelligence comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information. |
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Common Operational Dataset (COD) | Authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. They provide essential baseline data and data standards that allow humanitarian actors to collaborate, coordinate and exchange information. CODs provide the basis for a common operational picture and a shared situational awareness. . |
COD-AB | An administrative boundary COD is a spatial dataset that identifies the various administrative level boundaries, names and unique codes (P-codes) in a country. It is a core COD, and provides a spatial/visual way to view and analyze data as well as a common way of referring to places allowing datasets to be aggregated and analyzed more easily. See Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB). |
COD-PS | A population statistics COD is a tabular baseline demographic dataset that is (ideally) disaggregated by age and sex and presented at various levels of administrative levels in a country and includes P-codes. It is a core COD that is used to identify initi |