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SesIndexCreatoR: An R Package for Socioeconomic Indices Computation and Visualization
Keywords: socioeconomic status, multidimensional index, principal component analysis, hierarchical classification, R
Scientific Description
In order to study social inequalities, indices can be used to summarize the multiple dimensions of the socioeconomic status. As a part of the Equit'Area Project, a public health program focused on social and environmental health inequalities, a statistical procedure to create (neighborhood) socioeconomic indices was developed. This procedure uses successive principal components analyses to select variables and create the index. In order to simplify the application of the procedure for non-specialists, the R package SesIndexCreatoR was created. It allows the creation of the index with all the possible options of the procedure, the classification of the resulting index in categories using several classical methods, the visualization of the results, and the generation of automatic reports. [8]
Functional Description
This package allows computing and visualizing socioeconomic indices and categories distributions from datasets of socioeconomic variables (These tools were developed as part of the EquitArea Project, a public health program).