sociome (version 2.2.5)

Operationalizing Social Determinants of Health Data for Researchers

Description

Accesses raw data via API and calculates social determinants of health measures for user-specified locations in the US, returning them in tidyverse- and sf-compatible data frames.

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install.packages('sociome')

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Version

2.2.5

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Nik Krieger

Last Published

December 6th, 2023

Functions in sociome (2.2.5)

acs_age_sex_race_ethnicity_vars

ACS variables for age, sex, race, and ethnicity

decennial_vars

Decennial census variable names for ADI calculation

lon_lat_from_area

Grab the longitude/latitude of the center of population of a census area

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Pipe operator

get_adi

Get Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and Berg Indices (ADI-3)

get_areas_near_coordinates

Make a tibble of census areas closest to a user-specified center

acs_vars

ACS variable names for ADI and ADI-3 calculation

get_geoids

Obtain GEOIDs of areas

append_dissimilarities

Append list columns of Gower's distances and sampling weights to a data frame

calculate_adi

Calculate ADI and ADI-3 from census data.

synthetic_population

Create a synthetic population simulating US Census areas

decennial_age_sex_race_ethnicity_vars

Decennial Census variables for age, sex, race, and ethnicity

census_api_key

Census API Key installer