Replication of Spielman et al's 2020 Evaluation of the Social Vulnerability Index

Description

This study is a reproduction and replication of:

Spielman, S. E., Tuccillo, J., Folch, D. C., Schweikert, A., Davies, R., Wood, N., & Tate, E. (2020). Evaluating Social Vulnerability Indicators: Criteria and their Application to the Social Vulnerability Index. Natural Hazards, 100(1), 417–436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03820-z

The original paper develops methods to evaluate the validity of social vulnerability indicators and applies them to SoVI, revealing issues with internal consistency and construct validity. Their paper implements these methods by calculating SoVI over various spatial extents in the USA. We first reproduce their results and then extend their work with a replication study, determining how robust SoVI is to changes over time.

Contributors

Liam Smith*, lwsmith@middlebury.edu, @Liam-W-Smith, ORCID link, Middlebury College
Joseph Holler, josephh@middlebury.edu , @josephholler, ORCID link, Middlebury College

* Corresponding author and creator

Study Metadata

Key words: social vulnerability, evaluation, social indicators
Subject: select from the BePress Taxonomy
Date created: 2023-06-12
Date modified: 2023-08-02
Spatial Coverage: United States, excluding Puerto Rico
Spatial Resolution: Counties and county equivalents
Spatial Reference System: EPSG 4269 NAD83
Temporal Coverage: 2008 - 2012 (data is the 2012 5-year ACS)
Temporal Resolution: Specify the temporal resolution of your study---i.e. the duration of time for which each observation represents or the revisit period for repeated observations
Funding Name: NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Funding Title: Transforming theory-building and STEM education through reproductions and replications in the geographical sciences
Award info URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049837
Award number: BCS-2049837

Related to

OSF Project: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DZPE9
Reproduction Report Registration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4S62B
Replication Analysis Preregistration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9NTDS
Replication Report Registration:
Preprint:
Conference Presentation:
Publication:
Prior Study: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03820-z and https://github.com/geoss/sovi-validity
Prior Study: https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6237.8402002
Binder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/HEGSRR/RPl-Spielman-2020/HEAD

Metadata for access

Rights: LICENSE: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised"
Resource type: Collection
Resource language: English
Conforms to: Template for Reproducible and Replicable Research in Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences, DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/W29MQ

Compendium structure and contents

This research compendium is structured with four main directories:

data: contains subdirectories for raw data and derived data.
docs: contains subdirectories for manuscript, presentation, and report
procedure: contains subdirectories for code or software scripts, information about the computational environment in which the research was conducted, and non-code research protocols
results: contains subdirectories for figures, formatted data tables, or other formats of research results.

The data, procedures, and results of this repository are outlined in three tables:

Data: data/data_index.csv
Procedures: procedure/procedure_index.csv
Results: results/results_index.csv

Important local documents include:

Replication pre-analysis plan: docs/report/RPl-Spielman-2020-analysis-plan.pdf
Reproduction study report: docs/report/RPr-Spielman-2020-report.pdf
Manuscript: ...
Presentation: ...

Compendium reference

The template_readme.md file contains more information on the design of this template and references used in the design. The Template_LICENSE file provides the BSD 3-Clause license for using this template. To cite the template, please use template_reference.bib or:

Kedron, P., & Holler, J. (2023). Template for Reproducible and Replicable Research in Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W29MQ

HEGSRR/RPl-Spielman-2020