Vision Need Profiles for the City of Richmond, Virginia: A Pilot Application of Calibration Methods to Vision Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

People with vision problems (VPs) have different needs based on their age, economic resources, housing type, neighborhood, and other disabilities. We used calibration methods to create synthetic data to estimate census tract-level community need profiles (CNPs) for the city of Richmond, Virginia.

Design

Cross-sectional secondary data analysis.

Subjects

Anonymized respondents to the 2015 to 2019 American Community Survey (ACS).

Methods

We used calibration methods to transform the ACS 5-year tabular (2015-2019) and Public Use Microdata estimates into a synthetic data set of person-level records in each census tract, and subset the data to persons who answered yes to the question "Are you blind or do you have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing gla

SUBMITTER: Rein DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767496 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature