Place Susceptibility Indexes for selected countries in Sub-Saharan countries

Place susceptibility is a community's capacity to anticipate, respond to, and recover from adverse events. The place susceptibility index (PSI) is a tool that measures how susceptible the population within a geographic area is to the impacts of adverse events.  These datasets include high-resolution PSI at the 3rd-order administrative level (e.g., local government areas or districts). The African countries represented are Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Lesotho, and Nigeria. The higher the index, the more susceptible a place or community is to hazards. The indices were developed by combining Bayesian spatial statistical modeling with publicly available Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIA) data and geospatial covariates. By downloading, the data user agrees to use these datasets only for analysis purposes and to acknowledge INFORM Africa in any publications, presentations, or reports using the following citation: Lawal, O., & INFORM Africa Research Study Group. (2025). Place Susceptibility Indexes for selected countries in Sub-Saharan countries [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org