Night-time lights as a proxy for socioeconomic indicators in Uganda
A large amount of economic research is reliant upon census, survey, or national accounts as a source of data. For many developing nations, the quality of this data is widely recognised to be unreliable and is rarely available at the sub-national level. By using a new and improved source of night-time satellite imagery data, this study investigates to what extent this data can serve as a proxy to t