LM Data Editor Guidelines: General
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INTRODUCTION
The “Data Editor Handbook -guidelines for data entry-“ has been developed to provide general inst...
1. GENERAL REMARKS AND RULES FOR DATA ENTRY
1.1 Land Matrix data policy
The Land Matrix Initiative has an open data policy that aims to provide information on large-scal...
1.2 Land Matrix deal definition: What is a land deal?
The Land Matrix defines a land deal as any intended, concluded, or failed attempt to acquire land...
1.3 Minimum information criteria
In order for a deal recorded in the Land Matrix database to be published on the Land Matrix websi...
1.4 Accuracy of information and conflicting information
Information on large-scale land investments is often fragmentary and, in some cases, it is diffic...
1.5 Avoidance of duplicates
1.6 Subsumed deals
As a rule, separate deals should be differentiated from each other and be added individually to t...
1.7 Year-/date-based data
To be able to track the evolution of a deal over time, so-called year-/date-based variables were ...
1.8 Orphaned deals
1.9 Data sourcing
1.10 Data scope
Representativeness, completeness, coverage