COVID-19 metrics across parliamentary constituencies and districts in India

  • Weiyu Wang
  • , Jeffrey Blossom
  • , Julie Kim
  • , Priyanka deSouza
  • , Weixing Zhang
  • , Rockli Kim
  • , Rakesh Sarwal
  • , S. V. Subramanian*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In India, Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) could serve as a regional unit of COVID-19 monitoring that facilitates evidence-based policy decisions. In this study, we presented the first estimates of COVID-19 cumulative cases and deaths per 100,000 population and the case fatality rate (CFR) between 7 January 2020 and 31 January 2021 across PCs and districts of India. We adopted a novel geographic information science-based methodology called crosswalk to estimate COVID-19 outcomes at the PC-level from district-level information. We found a substantial variation of COVID-19 burden within each state and across the country. Access to PC-level and district-level COVID-19 information can enhance both central and regional governmental accountability of safe reopening policies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)435-443
Number of pages9
JournalAnnals of GIS
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, on behalf of Nanjing Normal University.

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • geographic precision
  • India
  • public policy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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