Identifying and Disaggregating Expenditure Patterns in Urban Pakistan: An exercise in Data synthesis

This public repository contains code and maps for the reaserch paper titled Identifying and Disaggregating Expenditure Patterns in Urban Pakistan: An exercise in Data synthesis. The paper provides a novel method to calculate expenditure at a fine geospatial scale in Urban Pakistan, by synthesizing and transforming several different open source data, and passing them through a statistical pipeline specially designed for this task that generates powerful conclusions from relatively sparse data.

This research has been conducted by Karachi Futures (KF) with funding and collaboration with Friedrich Nauman Foundation for Freedom (FnF). Karachi Futures is community-lead research group and tech shop that conducts research and builds tools on the intersection of public policy, strategic foresight, and data science. Karachi Futures is supported by AGAHI Enterprises. AGAHI (Enterprise) Private Limited is a professional services firm, and a counselor to businesses and institutions.