How are people and households changing across the city?

Connect births, household changes, housing and demographic movement through time.

The record concepts include age / life stage, household relationships, dated demographic events, household composition, membership changes, household lifecycle and housing tenure. Review recorded age and resident distributions. Inspect composition and housing tenure patterns. Keep boundaries and observation dates consistent.

This dataset is prepared to order. Choose the city, date range and required scope; the accepted order defines the population, final fields, formats and delivery.

Onboarded city options

Nairobi (Kenya) · Lagos (Nigeria)

Custom city requests

African Major Cities · Additional cities require availability, scope and quote confirmation.

Data type

Synthetic

Connected domains

Demographics, Households, Housing

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• Demographers
• city planners
• policy teams
• population researchers

Entities represented

Area / population-level

This identifies the entities described by the catalogue. The analytical row grain, eligibility, keys and dates are agreed for your extract.

Explore age structure, household composition and tenure across areas and observation years.

Record concepts for your extract

• age / life stage
• household relationships
• dated demographic events
• household composition
• membership changes
• household lifecycle
• housing tenure

The agreed specification defines the final columns, keys, relationships and observation period for your order.

Use consistent geographic boundaries and population definitions; distinguish modeled historical changes from changes in record coverage or snapshot basis.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. How do population age structure, household composition and housing tenure change across city areas and successive observation years?
2. How is household growth changing the city’s housing context?
3. How does the age and life-stage mix change across the timeline?
4. When do households form, grow or change membership?
5. How do household changes coincide with housing-tenure transitions?
6. Which demographic patterns differ between the available city releases?

Proposed research and analytical applications

• Exploratory analysis
• Cohort comparison
• Planning scenarios
• Data workflow prototyping

Data generation

FCTE synthetic city engine

Data classification

Synthetic

FCTE generation methods and published city/domain checks provide source context. The order defines the final extract and the release-specific checks, documentation and limitations supplied with it.

Known limitations

• Confirm city coverage and time windows. Synthetic trends are not observed population estimates, and housing need requires additional definitions.
• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$195 USD

Price basis

Base price per selected city

Availability

Prepared after order

The displayed catalogue amount is a base price per selected city. Your requested dates, population, fields, formats and usage rights determine the agreed scope and final quote. Applicable published discounts and taxes are confirmed with that quote.

Your prepared package

Your order confirms the data files, documentation, evidence, examples and release controls included in the prepared package.

• Agreed data extract
• Schema and field documentation
• Release-specific evidence and limitations
• Agreed loading or analysis examples
• Licence, manifest, checksums and delivery note

SD_RESEARCH_DATASET/
├── data/
│   ├── citizens.parquet
│   ├── household_history.parquet
│   └── housing_records.parquet
├── documentation/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── DATA_DICTIONARY.csv
│   ├── SCHEMA.md
│   └── METHODOLOGY.md
├── evidence/
│   ├── CERTIFICATION.json
│   ├── VALIDATION_REPORT.pdf
│   └── KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md
├── MANIFEST.json
├── CHECKSUMS.sha256
└── LICENSE.pdf

Delivery process

Confirm the cities, date range, records, formats, rights and price in writing. The order-specific extract is then prepared and supplied under the agreed payment and delivery conditions.

One secure download package for the agreed release and licensed entity.

Delivery timing, access expiry, formats and prerequisites are confirmed in the accepted order.

Support, refreshes, future releases, hosting and APIs are included only when expressly ordered.

Data Licensing Agreement · 2026-10

A non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for the named customer within the accepted scope and duration.

Permitted use

Internal research, development, testing and analytics within the accepted order.

Model training

Model training, external applications, commercial distribution and access by other legal entities must be expressly addressed in the order.

Redistribution

Raw or substantially reconstructable data cannot be resold, published or redistributed without separate written authorization.

Attribution

Preserve release provenance and applicable third-party notices. Published outputs must identify the data as synthetic.