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. 2016 Jan 28;10(1):e0004405. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004405

Table 1. Summary of environmental, census, socio-demographic and livestock data used.

Data Source Variables examined Description & Resolution
Hydrology Fiji Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources. Digital data from FLIS (Fiji Land Information System). Original 1:50K topographic maps [23]. Distance to rivers, major, minor creeks. Euclidean distance to rivers, major, minor creeks. 25 m raster data.
Roads Fiji Ministry of Lands and Resources. Digital data from FLIS (Fiji Land Information System). Original 1:50K topographic maps. Road density. Number of roads per sq km within 1 km radius. 25 m raster data.
Soils Fiji Ministry of Agriculture. 1980/85 National Soil Survey [24]. Soils of major and secondary floodplains, and depressions. Soil units and distance from soil units. 25 m raster data.
Land use/cover Ministry of Agriculture. Digital data from Secretariat of the Pacific (SPC). Circa 2010. Multiple land use/cover types. Visual interpretation of satellite imagery. 25 m raster data.
Climate Landcare Research Institute [25]. Annual, maximum, minimum, and average temperature and rainfall Spatially interpolated climate data meteorological station data from 1971–2000. 100 m raster data.
Elevation Landcare Research Institute [3]. Altitude and slope Elevation derived from 20 m contours. 25 m raster data.
Census Fiji National Census 2007 [20]. Multiple measures of education attainment, house construction, employment, ethnicity, and other sociodemographic factors. Census variables available at the Enumeration Area level (~80–120 households). Vector count data converted to proportions.
Economic status World Bank (2011) report [26]. Poverty rate (% of population below poverty line) and poverty gap (how far on average. people are from the poverty line) Poverty rates estimated using small area estimation method. Vector data at the Tikina level.
Livestock Fiji Ministry of Agriculture. Fiji National Agricultural Census 2009 [27]. Number of farms and farm animals by species: cattle, commercial beef, dairy, subsistence beef, etc. Density per sq km calculated by Tikina (not available for all Tikinas).