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