brfss_flu: BRFSS Place of Influenza Vaccine Data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

BRFSS asked the folliwing question from 2016-2017: "At what kind of place did you get your last flu shot or vaccine?" of those who reported getting a flu shot that year.

Usage

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Format

A "long" data frame with XX rows of individual BRFSS respondents in a given state and year and YY column variables:

fluvac_plcat_num

a numeric variable from the raw BRFSS variable IMFVPLAC

fluvac_plcat_fct

categorical, factor variable of the raw BRFSS variable IMFVPLAC: "Dr. Office","Health Department", "Health Center", "Community Center","Store", "Hospital", "Emergency Room","Workplace", "Other Place", "Other Country","School", "DK/Refused"

fluvac_pl5cat_fct

categorical, factor variable with collapsed categories: Dr. Office, Other Health Setting (Health Dept, Health Center, Hospital, ER), Workplace, Store, or Other (Community Center, Other Place, Other Country, or School). Don't Know or Missing are included in NA.

fluvac_allcat_fct

an extention fluvac_pl5cat_fct that accounts for skip pattern for those without a flu shot: Dr. Office, Other Health Setting, Workplace, Store, Other, Vaccine Place Unkown (got a Flu Shot, but didn't answer IMFVPLAC), No Vaccine (said either No, Don't Know or Refused to answer to Flu Vaccine)

x_state

numeric variable of state

state

state FIPS code, labeled with state alphabetic abbreviation

seqno

identificaiton variable

year

Numeric year: 2016-2017

x_psu

Primary Sampling Unit Variable

x_ststr

Sampling Strata Variable

flu_wt_raw

Original,raw sampling weight: 2016-2017

version_flu

Character, Version of data: Core (X_LLCPWT), V1 (X_LCPWTV1), or V2(X_LCPWTV2)

Source

BRFSS Annual Survey Data https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_data.htm.


bencapistrant/brfssR documentation built on Sept. 24, 2021, 2:10 p.m.