Birth Rates for Belgian Municipalities - A Short Analysis of the Differences

This project will get a glimpse of the Belgium natality data and try to find the reasons for differences between municipalities
If you only wish to view the final result, you can open the Jupyter notebook, otherwise, you can install everything locally by following the below instructions

Installation

Download the data

• Clone this repo to your computer
• Get into the folder using cd belgian-birth-rates
• Run mkdir data
• Switch into the data directory using cd data
• Download the data files into the data directory
  • from STATBEL
    • You can find the data
      • here, files Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier (2011-2018) and Nombre de ménages par commune selon le type
      • here, files Naissances et fécondité 2011 through Naissances et fécondité 2015
      • here, files Population par lieu de résidence, nationalité, état civil, âge et sexe 2011 through 2015
  • from HyperCarte, file structure_be.xls
  • from GitHub, file municipalities-belgium.geojson
• Switch back into the belgian-birth-rates directory using cd ..

Install the requirements

• Install Anaconda
• Install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Make sure you use Python 3

Usage

• Launch the Jupyter Notebook App and start the notebook Birth Rates for Belgian Municipalities - A Short Analysis of the Differences.ipynb
• Run the whole notebook