Triple Disadvantage Research Project

  • Mobile Home Ownership Dataset using NLS Investigator. Audited dataset to confirm variables included and missing from every year for every variable from 1997 to 2019. Updated the existing dataset in NLS Investigator with data from 2017 and 2019.
  • Triple Neighborhood Disadvantage research activities: Conducted data collection, data cleaning and data management activities:
    • Locating and Downloading Open Crime Data Sets for the following cities: DC, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Detroit, Milwaukee, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas.
    • Creating a new variable of Violent crime for each data set to include new codes for the four main categories of violent crime: Homicide, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault. This includes constructing codes to create the variable for each crime type, for each data set for each city.
    • Developing and recording the codes utilized for variable creation and drafting the preliminary writing for this portion of the methods section.
    • Finalized the construction of the data sets with the violent crime variable for the 15 cities.
    • Generating Violent Crime rates for each crime category, for each city, for each respective year.