Geolocation & Site Measures

Each participating LEVANTE data collection site will provide meta-data about the specifics of their data collection site. These details will include sociodemographic characteristics, physical landscape, climate, sustenance styles, community composition, salient cultural norms around parenting and childhood, typical structure of schooling, and prevalence of technology.

To measure environmental variables, sites will use identifiable location data to derive a set of de-identified geographic features for each child’s primary household location (and in cases of school-based administration, school location). These will include two sub-constructs, neighborhood built environment measures (e.g., population density (rural/urban classification), greenspace, poverty, local area inequality (GINI coefficient), and walkability score) and general environmental measures (e.g., average temperature, temperature at date of administration, heat index, daylight, night-time light pollution, noise pollution, and air pollution metrics).

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