load_india_states
data.load_india_states()Load the India states (n=32) nighttime lights cross-section for 1992.
Regional sums of corrected DMSP-OLS nighttime lights (CCNL v1) over GlobPOP gridded population, computed in Google Earth Engine by the authors of quarcs-lab/project2025s-py.
Returns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| gdf | geopandas.GeoDataFrame | 32 state/union territory geometries with columns ["region", "geometry"], CRS EPSG:4326. |
| df | pandas.DataFrame | 32 rows with columns ["region", "year", "ntl_sum", "pop", "ntl_pc", "log_ntl_pc"] (year is always 1992). |
| df_dict | pandas.DataFrame | Data dictionary with one row per df column, in df column order, with columns var_name, var_def, label, type, role, can_be_na. |
Raises
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GeometricsDataError | If a source file cannot be downloaded or fails hash verification. |
See Also
load_india : District-level (n=520) panel case study.