Communities Speak: Using Microdata to Understand the Secondary Impacts of COVID & for Applied Policymaking

Smart Cities
Written By Alexis Avedisian

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Team Information

Team Members

  • Ashley MacQuarie, PhD Candidate, Urban Social Policy, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs (Columbia SIPA)

  • Cyrette Saunier, MA Candidate, Urban Social Policy, Columbia SIPA

  • Madelene Baker, MA Candidate, Urban Social Policy, Columbia SIPA

  • Faculty Advisor: Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science; and Director, Urban and Social Policy Program, Columbia SIPA

Abstract

The poster shares our new process for using microdata collection and analysis to understand the secondary impacts of COVID, and in the future of other societal shocks. Using a strategic partner network throughout the city, Communities Speak follows a uniquely designed project lifecycle to execute individual-level surveys whose results reveal impacts of the shock of COVID not found in other macrodata analyses or trackers and also makes the case for the use of microdata in applied policy making at the city level to create transparent and accessible data digitally at the city-level for all stakeholders to access and engage with.

Team Lead Contact

Ashley MacQuarie: arm2224@columbia.edu

Alexis Avedisian
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