Business Data Categorization and Refinement for Application in Longitudinal Neighborhood Health Research: a Methodology.

ABSTRACT: Retail environments, such as healthcare locations, food stores, and recreation facilities, may be relevant to many health behaviors and outcomes. However, minimal guidance on how to collect, process, aggregate, and link these data results in inconsistent or incomplete measurement that can introduce misclassification bias and limit replication of existing research. We describe the following steps to leverage business data for longitudinal neighborhood health research: re-geolocating establishment addresses, preliminary classification using standard industrial codes, systematic checks to refine classifications, incorporation and integration of complementary data sources, documentation of a flexible hierarchical classification system and variable naming conventions, and linking to neighborhoo

SUBMITTER: Hirsch JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8079597 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature