SesIndexCreatoR: An R Package for Socioeconomic Indices Computation and Visualization

Benoît  Lalloué; Nolwenn  Le Meur; Wahida  Kihal; Séverine  Deguen; Cindy  Padilla; Jean-Marie  Monnez; Denis  Zmirou-Navier

doi:10.4236/ojs.2015.54031

OJS Vol.5 No.4 , June 2015

SesIndexCreatoR: An R Package for Socioeconomic Indices Computation and Visualization

Benoît Lalloué^1,2, Séverine Deguen^2,3^*, Jean-Marie Monnez⁴, Cindy Padilla^2,3, Wahida Kihal^2,3, Denis Zmirou-Navier^2,3,5, Nolwenn Le Meur²

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Socioeconomic Status, Multidimensional Index, Principal Component Analysis, Hierarchical Classification, R

Cite this paper: Lalloué, B. , Deguen, S. , Monnez, J. , Padilla, C. , Kihal, W. , Zmirou-Navier, D. and Le Meur, N. (2015) SesIndexCreatoR: An R Package for Socioeconomic Indices Computation and Visualization. Open Journal of Statistics, 5, 291-302. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2015.54031.

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