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Center for Global Migration Studies panel discussion
Census 2020: Race and Whose Story "Counts"
Located in Coming Up
Data Integration Mini Seminar Series - JPSM/MPSM
Longitudinal Business Database (LBD)
Located in Coming Up
Data Integration Mini Seminar Series - JPSM/MPJM
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
Located in Coming Up
Article ReferenceCensus Tract Food Tweets and Chronic Disease Outcomes in the U.S., 2015–2018
There is a growing recognition of social media data as being useful for understanding local area patterns. In this study, we sought to utilize geotagged tweets—specifically, the frequency and type of food mentions—to understand the neighborhood food environment and the social modeling of food behavior. Additionally, we examined associations between aggregated food-related tweet characteristics and prevalent chronic health outcomes at the census tract level. We used a Twitter streaming application programming interface (API) to continuously collect ~1% random sample of public tweets in the United States. A total of 4,785,104 geotagged food tweets from 71,844 census tracts were collected from April 2015 to May 2018. We obtained census tract chronic disease outcomes from the CDC 500 Cities Project. We investigated associations between Twitter-derived food variables and chronic outcomes (obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure) using the median regression. Census tracts with higher average calories per tweet, less frequent healthy food mentions, and a higher percentage of food tweets about fast food had higher obesity and hypertension prevalence. Twitter-derived food variables were not predictive of diabetes prevalence. Food-related tweets can be leveraged to help characterize the neighborhood social and food environment, which in turn are linked with community levels of obesity and hypertension.
Located in MPRC People / Quynh Nguyen, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. / Quynh Nguyen Publications
Seminar Series: The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: Size, Distribution, and Characteristics
Elizabeth M. Grieco, Chief, Foreign-Born Population Branch, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau
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Seminar Series: Data on the Undercount of Young Children in the U.S. Decennial Census
William O'Hare, Research Fellow, National Science Foundation / American Statistical Association / Census Bureau
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