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DSEW CPR documentation does not indicate actual data source #911
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The part of the healthdata.gov page that you are looking for is here: The data for this indicator is made available as attachments. Each issue includes a PDF in the style of the preview (slides about the data) and a Microsoft Excel file which contains the actual data. The data sources and methods are described in the Data Notes tab in each Excel file. Unfortunately, we have reason to question the veracity of those notes, since while they claim they get their hospital admissions figures from HHS, the CPR figures do not match the HHS ones. We and others have not been able to get a response on why this might be so. It's true there is no data dictionary provided; I will remove that clause from the link text. I will also clarify the instructions for how to locate the data on the healthdata.gov page. |
Regarding the sourcing for different geo-levels -- here is the language we currently use to explain this: In the summary:
In the Estimation section:
If that is not sufficient, can you suggest some language that would help make it clearer? |
I was confused about the geographic level because I found the county-level CPR dataset, so I assumed we were pulling from that. Having not looked at the Excel files you're actually using, I don't know what's in them. So supposing I hadn't found the county-level dataset, I'd be less confused by the geographic levels. |
The DSEW CPR documentation says:
But that page just provides a PDF of slides of the report. It does not provide the data or data dictionary. I had to search HealthData.gov to find:
They report a different set of columns, so it'd be useful for the documentation to be explicit about where the data comes from and which data dictionary we should be looking at. Also, some of the signals are marked as "not available below state level"; does that mean they come from a different dataset from the two above, since one is county-level and one is national? Are we pulling from separate state-level reports?
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