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  • Percent of Iowans in county with OB Unit

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    David Faden
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    Following up on my previous post, Obstetrical care in Iowa, I was curious what percentage of Iowans are in a county with an OB Unit. We can get this pretty easily using the handy usdata R package in combination with the data we extracted previously. With this preamble, now we can take a weighted mean…

  • Obstetrical care in Iowa

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    David Faden
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    The third article in Kalen McCain’s excellent series on maternal healthcare in southeastern Iowa, Barriers aren’t limited to birthdays, features a map from numbered page 14 of ACCESS TO OBSTETRICAL CARE IN IOWA: A REPORT to the IOWA STATE LEGISLATURE – CALENDAR YEAR 2021 [PDF]. This got me wondering what it would take to reproduce…

  • Iowa county seats

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    David Faden
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    I got the coordinates of the county seats using the utility I previously wrote to get California county seats: The generated CSV is now available here: https://github.com/fadend/county_seat_coords/blob/main/county_seat_coords/generated/ia_usa_county_seats.csv. One complication that it doesn’t handle: Lee County has *two* county seats. A little copying pasting from the R code from the other post produced a pretty okay…