Research Areas

The objective of this report is to distribute Spain’s population among its territory. Traditionally, studies on the distribution of the population have been severely limited by administrative boundaries and do not reflect the real world.

The chosen way to represent the population in this study has been a 1 km² grid, in which each cell is assigned the resident population. In order to do so, the land covers susceptible of holding residential population have been previously selected. After this, a geometric intersection with census tracts is performed and an iterative process is applied to downscale the population and redistribute it among the cells.

The sources of information have been the population census tracts level for 2010, as well as data concerning land coverage available in the Spanish Land Cover and Use Information System (SIOSE).