From 142280615f339e88b6f76305478980f4cfc828c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nat DeFries <42820733+nmdefries@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 17:41:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] state territories not included; point to UMD --- docs/api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md | 10 ++++++++++ docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md | 8 ++++++++ docs/symptom-survey/survey-files.md | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md index c2dfde83c..6215d153c 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md @@ -643,6 +643,16 @@ declines, some indicators will become unavailable once they no longer meet the This affects some signals, such as those based on a subset of responses, more than others, with finer geographic resolutions becoming unavailable first. +### Target Region + +Facebook only invites users to take the survey if they appear, based on +attributes in their Facebook profiles, to reside in the 50 states or +Washington, DC. Puerto Rico is sampled separately as part of the +[international version of the survey](https://covidmap.umd.edu/). If Facebook +believes a user qualifies for the survey, but the user then replies that they +live in Puerto Rico or another US territory, we do not include their response +in the aggregations. + ## Survey Weighting diff --git a/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md b/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md index 6cc56de1f..5adb919f8 100644 --- a/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md +++ b/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ CSVs for the month of January 2021 only use data from January 6-31 due to a At the moment, only nation-wide and state groupings are available. +Facebook only invites users to take the survey if they appear, based on +attributes in their Facebook profiles, to reside in the 50 states or +Washington, DC. Puerto Rico is sampled separately as part of the +[international version of the survey](https://covidmap.umd.edu/). If Facebook +believes a user qualifies for the survey, but the user then replies that they +live in Puerto Rico or another US territory, we do not include their response +in the aggregations. + ### Privacy The aggregates are filtered to only include estimates for a particular group diff --git a/docs/symptom-survey/survey-files.md b/docs/symptom-survey/survey-files.md index f2fd26339..d181449a1 100644 --- a/docs/symptom-survey/survey-files.md +++ b/docs/symptom-survey/survey-files.md @@ -104,10 +104,20 @@ Responses qualify for inclusion in these files if they meet the following condit open-ended question (A2, A2b, B2b, Q40, C10_1_1, C10_2_1, C10_3_1, C10_4_1, D3, D4, D5) means to provide any number (floats okay) and to “answer” a radio button question is to provide a selection +* starting September 2021, indicated that they live in the 50 states or + Washington, DC We do not require the user to have completed the survey, or to have seen all pages of the survey. +Facebook only invites users to take the survey if they appear, based on +attributes in their Facebook profiles, to reside in the 50 states or +Washington, DC. Puerto Rico is sampled separately as part of the +[international version of the survey](https://covidmap.umd.edu/). Starting in +September 2021, if Facebook believes a user qualifies for the survey, but the +user then replies that they live in Puerto Rico or another US territory, we do +not include their response in the individual response data. + ## Collisions One thing we haven't been able to fully fix is the problem of people forwarding