Context

RDS shapefiles from GADM can be used in spatial statistical analyses. With shapefiles one can make use of existing spatial dependencies and extract geo-features to augment predictions.

Content

Time period of data and its collection varies by country (Further information can be found under gadm.org). RDS files (SpatialPolygonsDataframe) are being created for the R environment and easy to work with. once loaded (readRDS function) it can interact with other geo referenced data (e.g. allocating observations to specific regions). The number at the end of the file indicates the NUTS level (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics).

Currently holds the NUTS levels for the following countries:

• Philippines (PHL)

• Senegal (SEN)

• Sudan (SDN)

Acknowledgements

Dataset is being owned by GADM and being made available with the following note:
This dataset is freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use is not allowed without prior permission.