{"title":"Linking Individuals to Areas: Protecting Confidentiality While Preserving Research Utility","authors":"Paul Norman, Jessie Colbert, Daniel J. Exeter","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00121-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00121-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modern computational capabilities have brought about concerns about risks associated with the level of information disclosed in public datasets. A tension exists between making data available that protects the confidentiality of individuals while containing sufficiently detailed geographic information to underpin the utility of research. Our aim is to inform data collectors and suppliers about geographic choices for confidentiality protection and to balance this with reassurance to the research community that data will still be fit-for-purpose. We test this using simple logistic regression models, by investigating the interplay between two geographical entities (points for the observations and polygons for area attributes) at a variety of scales, using a synthetic population of 22,000 people. In an England and Wales setting, we do this for individuals located by postcodes and by postal sector and postal district centroids and link these to a variety of census geographies. We also ‘jitter’ postcode coordinates to test the effect of moving people away from their original location. We find a smoothing of relationships up the geographical hierarchy. However, if postal sector centroids are used to locate individuals, linkages to Lower/Medium Super Output Area scales and subsequent results are very similar to the more detailed unit postcodes. Postcode locations jittered by 500–750 m in any direction are likely to allow the same conclusions to be drawn as for the original locations. Within these geographic scenarios, there is likely to be a sufficient level of confidentiality protection while statistical relationships are very similar to those obtained using the most detailed geographic locators.</p>","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"8 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Spatial Heterogeneity and Potential Risk Factors of Childlessness Across 412 Districts of India: An Analysis of 4 Decades","authors":"Adrita Banerjee","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00120-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00120-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David A. Swanson, Tom Bryan, Mark Hattendorf, Kelly Comstock, L. Starosta, Robert Schmidt
{"title":"An Example of Combining Expert Judgment and Small Area Projection Methods: Forecasting for Water District Needs","authors":"David A. Swanson, Tom Bryan, Mark Hattendorf, Kelly Comstock, L. Starosta, Robert Schmidt","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00119-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00119-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44382322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanjing Liu, Jie Dai, Shuang Yang, R. Bilsborrow, Minjuan Wang, Li An
{"title":"Measuring Neighborhood Impacts on Labor Out-Migration from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China","authors":"Yanjing Liu, Jie Dai, Shuang Yang, R. Bilsborrow, Minjuan Wang, Li An","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00117-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00117-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47188690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Data Sample Uncertainty in Delineations of Core Based Statistical Areas and Rural Urban Commuting Areas","authors":"Christopher S. Fowler, J. Cromartie","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00118-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00118-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Spatial DemographyPub Date : 2023-04-01Epub Date: 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1007/s40980-023-00115-7
Anna E Shetler, Scott T Yabiku
{"title":"Egalitarian Attitudes and Activity Spaces in Chitwan, Nepal.","authors":"Anna E Shetler, Scott T Yabiku","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00115-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40980-023-00115-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Connections between individuals' sociodemographic characteristics and their social attitudes have been widely studied, but there has been less research on how individuals' spatial patterns are related to attitudes. Studies that do incorporate space have focused on residential locations, neglecting spatial experience outside residential neighborhoods. To fill this gap, we test hypotheses relating multiple measures of activity space (AS) to social attitudes, using innovative spatial data from Nepal. First, we hypothesize that the gender and caste attitudes of a focal individual will be positively associated with the gender and caste attitudes of others in the focal individual's AS, including spaces beyond the residential neighborhood. Second, we hypothesize that privileged individuals (i.e., males and those of the Chhetri/Brahmin caste) with greater potential exposure to females and those of lower castes in their AS will have more egalitarian attitudes about gender and caste than those with less exposure in their AS. Linear regression models provide support for both hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9980719/pdf/nihms-1876556.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9228244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of Fertility During the Fertility Transition in Estonia: A Spatial Analysis","authors":"M. Gortfelder, H. Jaadla","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00116-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00116-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47171772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Nilima, Amitha Puranik, Siddharth Kaushik, S. Rai
{"title":"Geographic Variation and Factors Associated with Breast Cancer Screening in India Using a Spatial Durbin Approach","authors":"N. Nilima, Amitha Puranik, Siddharth Kaushik, S. Rai","doi":"10.1007/s40980-023-00114-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-023-00114-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48509862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. Saha, Sumonkanti Das, Bernard Baffour, Hukum Chandra
{"title":"Small Area Estimation of Age-Specific and Total Fertility Rates in Bangladesh","authors":"U. Saha, Sumonkanti Das, Bernard Baffour, Hukum Chandra","doi":"10.1007/s40980-022-00113-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-022-00113-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44557010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina Dos Santos, Júlia Oliveira Penteado, Rodrigo de Lima Brum, Alicia da Silva Bonifácio, Paula Florêncio Ramires, Diuster de Franceschi Gariboti, Ruana Michela Santos Cardoso, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior
{"title":"Ethnic/Racial Disparity in Mortality from COVID-19: Data for the Year 2020 in Brazil.","authors":"Marina Dos Santos, Júlia Oliveira Penteado, Rodrigo de Lima Brum, Alicia da Silva Bonifácio, Paula Florêncio Ramires, Diuster de Franceschi Gariboti, Ruana Michela Santos Cardoso, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior","doi":"10.1007/s40980-022-00112-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-022-00112-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study aimed to investigate ethnic/racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality in Brazilian federative units and their respective capitals in 2020. Population data and number of COVID-19 deaths were extracted by skin color (white, black, brown and indigenous) from all Brazilian states and their respective capitals. The mortality rate of COVID-19 by ethnicity in Brazilian states was higher between people from brown skin color, followed by indigenous and black. Only in one state, in the Federal District and in the federal capital, age-standardized mortality rates were higher among white's people. There is a high percentage of deaths from COVID-19 higher than expected among non-white individuals, especially in south-central states and capitals of the country. Mortality from COVID-19 affect ethnic-racial groups unevenly in Brazil and the number of excess deaths among non-whites was over 9000. Urgent government measures are needed to reduce the racial disparity in health indicators in Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":43022,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Demography","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841953/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9507354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}