Using Twitter to Track Unplanned School Closures: Georgia Public Schools, 2015-17.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To aid emergency response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers monitor unplanned school closures (USCs) by conducting online systematic searches (OSS) to identify relevant publicly available reports. We examined the added utility of analyzing Twitter data to improve USC monitoring.

Methods

Georgia public school data were obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics. We identified school and district Twitter accounts with 1 or more tweets ever posted ("active"), and their USC-related tweets in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years. CDC researchers provided OSS-identified USC reports. Descriptive statistics, univariate, and multivariable logistic regression were computed.

Results

A majority (1,864/2,299) of Georgia public

SUBMITTER: Ahweyevu JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7665976 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature