Maps for Peds MRSA SSTI

There are 111 members in Peds MRSA SSTI dataset. After frequency analysis, there are 95 unique zipcodes for these 111 members. One is located in Canada (EIN_ID: 518; Zipcode: M5G 1X8). Finally, there are 94 unique zipcodes in USA (please see appendix for the detailed frequency table).

Peds MRSALASTYR Data Analysis

Q1: Are you seeing more MRSA SSTI in the past 12 months compared with the previous year?

In question 1, there are five multiple answer choices. In this dataset, four answer choices selected by these hospital members are: Somewhat fewer, About the same, Somewhat more, and Many more. Different weighting indicators have been adopted to these four choices because some zipcodes have more than one hospital member. It shows as following:

Answer WeightSomewhat fewer 1About the same 2Somewhat more 3

Many more 4

An equation has also been adopted to calculate final weight for each zipcode.

: The hospital i at corresponding zipcode

: The weight of hospital i at corresponding zipcoden: The number of hospitals at corresponding zipcode

Final Weight Categories1 1

2-2.5 22.6-3.5 33.6-4 4

The final map looks like following:

Q2: Are you seeing more MRSA SSTI in the past 12 months compared with 2003?

In question 1, there are five multiple answer choices. In this dataset, four answer choices selected by these hospital members are: Somewhat fewer, About the same, Somewhat more, and Many more. Different weighting indicators have been adopted to these four choices because some zipcodes have more than one hospital member. It shows as following:

Answer WeightSomewhat fewer 1About the same 2Somewhat more 3

Many more 4An equation has also been adopted to calculate final weight for each zipcode.

: The hospital i at corresponding zipcode

: The weight of hospital i at corresponding zipcoden: The number of hospitals at corresponding zipcode

Final Weight Categories1 1

2-2.5 22.6-3.5 33.6-4 4

The final map looks like following:

zip1

zip1 Frequency

02139 1

02144 1

02903 1

03060 1

03756 1

03766 1

05405 1

06904 1

07046 1

07601 2

07740 1

08628 1

08903 1

10032 2

10304 1

10451 1

10457 1

11021 1

11201 1

14850 1

16502 1

19104 2

zip1

zip1 Frequency

19341 1

20010 1

21120 1

22908 1

26506 1

27599 1

27704 1

27710 2

27834 1

28232 1

28269 1

29615 1

30322 1

30342 1

30912 2

32207 1

32209 1

33176 1

33606 1

35233 3

36604 1

37232 2

37901 1

38018 1

38103 1

38105 1

39216 1

40202 1

zip1

zip1 Frequency

43205 1

43614 1

44195 1

45229 1

45404 1

46202 1

48108 1

53792 2

54449 2

55102 1

60612 1

60657 1

63104 1

70805 1

72202 1

75240 1

76104 1

76508 1

77555 1

78503 1

79430 1

80207 1

80218 1

84132 1

85724 2

87131 1

89102 1

90034 1

zip1

zip1 Frequency

90048 1

90095 1

90740 1

90801 1

92123 1

92134 1

92620 1

92706 1

92868 2

94143 3

94401 1

95817 1

97201 1

97227 2

97239 1

98105 1

M5G 1X8 1