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. 2022 Sep 6;99(5):873–886. doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00675-x

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of key study variables

Population Social distancing index ADI SMR
Mean 1317.783 0.306 104.989 1.189
Median 1141 0.302 105.621 0
St. Dev 834.8108 0.084 20.382 8.423
Min 25 0.099 43.893 0
Max 17,648 0.813 158.212 147.487

Population data was downloaded using the tidycensus package in R for the 2019 ACS using summary variable B01001_001 and the geography flag corresponding to the census block group (CBG). The social distancing index was downloaded from SafeGraph, Inc., and read into R using the SafeGraphR package. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) was downloaded using the sociome package in R (function get_adi) for census block groups. The SMR is calculated as the observed number of opioid-related overdose deaths divided by the age-adjusted expected counts and aggregated to the CBG