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Table 2  Explanatory variable data sources

From: An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries: associations with crop and heat

Variable

Spatial domain

Temporal domain

Data source

Population density

All countries

2010

WorldPop [26]

Ambient temperature

All countries

1970–2010

Worldclim [27, 28]

Crop cultivation

Mexico

2009–2012

Mexican government productivity data [29]

Guatemala

2010

Guatemalan government land use map [30]

2011–2013

Rice productivity [22]

El Salvador

2007–2008

Agricultural Census [6]

Nicaragua

2016

Sugarcane only: Land use map [31]

2011

Agricultural census [32]

Costa Rica

2014

Agricultural census [33] and land use maps [34] for sugarcane