Publications by Anthony Damico
analyze the national longitudinal study of adolescent health (addhealth) with r
the national longitudinal survey of adolescent health (addhealth) is to the health and retirement study what teen people is to aarp magazine. both surveys have followed a cohort of respondents for almost twenty years now, asking them health behavior and social well-being questions. this is the best data set to investigate the rela...
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analyze the survey of business owners (sbo) with r
each year ending in a two or a seven, census bureau employees stow away their eponymous decennial population count to focus on the economic census. and when charged with gauging the health of the american economy, who better to survey than business owners. you read me right. every five years, the united states government sends t...
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analyze the home mortgage disclosure act (hmda) microdata with r and monetdb
back in 1975, congress had it up to here with discriminatory lending practices and decided to require financial organizations originating home mortgages to report some basic operational statistics publicly. the home mortgage disclosure act mandated a major ramp-up in the transparency of home-lending activity across the country. al...
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analyze the panel study of income dynamics (psid) with r
the panel study of income dynamics (psid) is a one-trick pony. better than anything else out there, this survey allows you to answer the question, “where are they now?” after tracking the same nationally-representative cohort of americans (and their children, and their children’s children) for more than forty years, this mic...
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analyze the national vital statistics system (nvss) with r and monetdb
ever since the dawn of the internet, the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has maintained a big data archive called the national vital statistics system (nvss). the hardworking quants in hyattsville release two major annual microdata files: the first containing one record per birth in the united states, the second con...
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analyze the american national election studies (anes) with r
on election days in the united states, the news media peppers its coverage with quick, dirty exit polls that allow them to make coarse statements like, “x% of demographic group y voted for candidate z.” the american national election studies are the scientific community’s response to those haphazard polls, for those of us who ...
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analyze the national survey of children’s health with r
american children of the nineties might have had pogs, beanie babies, m.c. hammer, but we lacked a reliable source for state-level survey estimates on health. then in 2003, the maternal and child health bureau of the health services and resources administration (hrsa) launched the first national survey of children’s health (nsch) ...
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analyze the program for international student assessment (pisa) with r and monetdb
the authoritative source for evaluating educational achievement across nations, the program(me) for international student assessment ranks the math, science, and reading skills of 15-year-olds in more than sixty countries. coordinated by the organisation for economic co-operation and development (oecd) and released every three years...
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analyze the national immunization survey (nis) with r
for twenty years now, the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has been random-digit-dialing american households to ask parents which vaccinations their little tykes have received. and since vaccination history might not be at the forefront of every parent’s mind, the cdc follows up with many of the respondents’ pedia...
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analyze the national survey of oaa participants (nps) with r
the united states administration on aging (aoa) spends about a billion dollars on community services and meals for elderly americans every year. enacted as part of lyndon johnson’s great society program, title iii of the older americans act funds state agencies to provide rides to the doctor, light housework, adult day care, and p...
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