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Global Distribution of Infant Mortality Rates

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The "Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates" data set consists of estimates for the year 2000 of infant mortality rates, defined as the number of children who die before their first birthday for every 1,000 live births. Over 10,000 national and subnational units are represented in the tabular and grid data sets.

Global Distribution of Child Malnutrition

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The "Global Subnational Prevalence of Child Malnutrition" data set provides of estimates of the percentage of children with weight-for-age z-scores that are more than two standard deviations below the median of the NCHS/CDC/WHO International Reference Population.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Hazardous Waste Site Polygon Data, 1996

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Compiled in January 1996, this database consists of 2,042 polygons for selected hazardous waste sites.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) Sites Point Data with CIESIN Modifications, 2008

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This dataset provides the latitude and longitude of the centroid for the 1,641 EPA NPL sites, also known as Superfund sites, as of June 7, 2008. CIESIN corrected the coordinates for five sites and provided the missing coordinates for one site.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Hazardous Waste Site Polygon Data with CIESIN Modifications, 1996

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This database provides geo-referenced polygon data for 1,562 NPL Superfund sites. The database includes all the attributes for these NPL sites provided in the larger 1996 ATSDR polygon database and the 2008 EPA NPL point database. Seventy-two NPL sites do not have corresponding ATSDR polygons and therefore are not included in this database.