Description
Population by age class and gender for the 80 fokontany within Pivot’s initial catchment. This is derived from a census conducted in October 2021.
Columns
comm_fkt
standardized commune and fokontany nomenclature
households
number of households in the fokontany
children_u5
number of children under 5 years old
children_5-15
number of children between 5-15 years old
men_over15
number of men older than 15 years of age
women_15-45
number of women greater than 15 and up to 45 years old
women_over45
women older than 45 years old
total_pop
total population (all ages)
Additional Info
✍️ Author
🔧 Maintainer
🗓 Last Updated
March 11, 2026
🔹 Processing Steps
No data processing steps were taken. The original data does contain more disaggregation by age and gender and can be obtained by contacting Pivot’s Monitoring and Evaluation Team via the dataset author and/or maintainer email provided.
🔹 Usage Guide
Note that for some fokontany, these values are *very* different from the INSTAT values. Comparisons with the size of residential areas and the number of buildings derived from OpenStreetMap found that these values corresponded better with the external dataset than those derived from the INSTAT national census. For this reason, we believe this local dataset to be more accurate and often use it in the place of INSTAT census data for the 80 fokontany for which it is available. When extrapolating to other years