Project Info
- Name: Deriving social vulnerability measure in US data
- Faculty Advisor: Brian Flaherty
- Department(s): Psychology
- Area(s): Quantitative Psychology
Contact Info
- Contact Person: Brian Flaherty
- Email: bxf4@uw.edu
Description
I'd like to create an analogous social vulnerability index (SVI) (see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002232) in one or more US data sets. For this project, you will need to familiarize yourself with the original SVI and items, then identify parallel or similar items in a publicly available US data set, for example NHANES, NHIS, or BRFS. Once a set of items has been identified, you can help with data analysis.Minimum Requirements
- patience- ability to carefully search through large PDF documents
- fuzzy search too, not only exact word matches
- to assist with data analysis, R or Stata experience (you can learn this on the job)