Disparities in health insurance coverage among children and young adults in Georgia and the U.S.
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2016 Background: In this brief report, I compare rates of health insurance coverage for children and young adults in Georgia and the United States. Methods: Utilizing data from the 2014 American Community Survey, I performed two-sample tests of weighted ...
Brandon Attell
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Multimodal Recruitment to Study Ovulation and Menstruation Health: Internet-Based Survey Pilot Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundMultimodal recruitment strategies are a novel way to increase diversity in research populations. However, these methods have not been previously applied to understanding the prevalence of menstrual disorders such as polycystic ovary syndrome.
Mahalingaiah, Shruthi +12 more
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Public-Use vs. Restricted-Use: An Analysis Using the American Community Survey
The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2018 Statistical agencies frequently publish microdata that have been altered to protect condentiality. Such data retain utility for many types of broad analyses but can yield biased or insufficiently precise results in others.
Saki Kinney, Alan F Karr
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Using Facebook Ads to promote blood pressure checks among African Americans in the United States: A descriptive study [PDF]
Journal of Health and Social Sciences, 2020 Introduction: Although hypertension is common in the United States, the African American community is disproportionately affected by high blood pressure.
Katherine J POLAK +2 more
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Cuban immigrants in the United States: what determines their earnings distribution? [PDF]
, 2016 Este artículo analiza la distribución de ingresos condicionales de los inmigrantes cubanos en los Estados Unidos usando OLS y analizando una Regresión Cuantílica.
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Rental Housing Spot Markets: How Online Information Exchanges Can Supplement Transacted-Rents Data [PDF]
, 2020 Traditional US rental housing data sources such as the American Community Survey and the American Housing Survey report on the transacted market—what existing renters pay each month.
Boeing, Geoff +2 more
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Spatio‐temporal change of support with application to American Community Survey multi‐year period estimates [PDF]
, 2015 We present hierarchical Bayesian methodology to perform spatio‐temporal change of support (COS) for survey data with Gaussian sampling errors. This methodology is motivated by the American Community Survey (ACS), which is an ongoing survey administered ...
J. Bradley, C. Wikle, S. Holan
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Health Expectations, 2020 Background New evidence has found breast and cervical cancer risk factors unique to African American women. Thus, there is a significant need to increase their knowledge and understanding of relevant risk factors and the potential protective benefits ...
Elisa M. Rodriguez +8 more
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The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Background and objectiveThere are overwhelming health disparities in the Deep South. It is important to include the voice of communities affected by these disparities when developing interventions. The goal of the current study was to develop an academic
Sharlene D. Newman +9 more
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Exploring Burden Perceptions of Household Survey Respondents in the American Community Survey
Journal of Official Statistics, 2022 Abstract Minimizing respondent survey burden may help decrease nonresponse and increase data quality, but the measurement of burden has varied widely. Recent efforts have paid more attention to respondents’ subjective perceptions of burden, measured through the addition of questions to a survey. Despite reliance on these questions as key
Jessica Holzberg, Jonathan Katz
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