Codes for paper titled "Using mobile-phone data to assess socio-economic disparities in convenience store and fast food reliance during COVID-19"

Authors: Charles Alba and Ruopeng An

Please Cite as: Alba C, An R. Using Mobile Phone Data to Assess Socio-Economic Disparities in Unhealthy Food Reliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Data Sci. 2023;3:Article 0101. https://doi.org/10.34133/hds.0101

Research Design

1. Data Cleaning
2. Data Wrangling
3. Data Analysis

Materials

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Mobile phone data

SafeGraph's patterns dataset. They can be purchased or obtained for free with special write-in requests here: https://www.deweydata.io/data-partners/safegraph

COVID-19 data

Available through the New York Times COVID-19 data set. It is openly available here: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

Socio-economic Demographics

Available through American Explorer's 2017-2021 American Community Survey Census dataset. It is openly available here: https://www.socialexplorer.com/tables/ACS2021_5yr