Datasets

`tripaccess` Data Package

I’m happy to announce that tripaccess 0.1.0: American Travel Behavior and Access Datasets is now available on CRAN. It contains four datasets tripaccess, person, house, and trip, constructed from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) 2017 person, house, and trip files. It includes personal trips, mobility, demographic, and household information. It is suitable for data visualization, data wrangling, joining datasets, exploratory data analysis, group comparisons, simple linear regression, categorical data analysis, and data ethics discussion in data science and statistics classes.

One goal of this data package is to increase awareness of disability inclusion by examining factors or characteristics that are associated with different travel behaviors of people who have a travel disability. The tripaccess and person datasets include a variable travel_disability, indicating whether respondents have a medical condition “that makes it difficult to travel outside of home”. These two datasets also include travel accommodations information, e.g., walker, cane.

Install tripaccess with: install.packages("tripaccess")

Please see the package site for more example usage of the tripaccess, person, house, and trip datasets.

I’ve compiled a list of public population surveys that include disability-related variables.

Current Population Survey (CPS)

CPS-Disability Supplement

National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)

American Community Survey (ACS)

National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH)