SesIndexCreatoR: An R package for socioeconomic indices computation and visualization

Benoît Lalloué (1, 2) , Séverine Deguen (3, 4) , Jean-Marie Monnez (1, 5) , Cindy Padilla (3, 4) , Wahida Kihal (3, 4) , Denis Zmirou-Navier (6, 3, 4) , Nolwenn Le Meur (4, 2)

1 BIGS - Biology, genetics and statistics
2 EA MOS - EA Management des Organisations de Santé
3 Irset - Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail
4 EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]
5 IECL - Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine
6 UL - Université de Lorraine

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: Hierarchical Classification; Principal Component Analysis; R; Socioeconomic Status; Multidimensional Index

Domains: Statistics [math.ST]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Benoît Lalloué, Séverine Deguen, Jean-Marie Monnez, Cindy Padilla, Wahida Kihal, et al.. SesIndexCreatoR: An R package for socioeconomic indices computation and visualization. Open Journal of Statistics, 2015, 5 (4), pp.291-302. ⟨10.4236/ojs.2015.54031⟩. ⟨hal-01161775⟩