Tempo-Spatial Modelling of the Spread of COVID-19 in Urban Spaces
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Definition | Unit | Source | Date | |
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Demographic | (1) Dependency | Persons under 16 and over 64 years of age with respect to the total active population | % | Municipal Register, OMAU | 2019 |
(2) Ageing | Persons over 64 years of age compared to those under 16 years of age | % | Municipal Register, OMAU | 2019 | |
(3) 75+ alone | Persons over 75 who live alone out of the total population | % | Municipal Register, OMAU | 2019 | |
(4) Life expectancy | Average age reached by the population | Years | Municipal Register, OMAU | 2019 | |
Socioeconomic | (5) Household income | Average annual net income of households (set of income received minus taxes and social security contributions) | Thousand euros | INE, OMAU | 2017 |
(6) Illiterate or uneducated population | Percentage of the population over 16 years of age that is illiterate or has no education | % | INE (Census) | 2011 | |
(7) Job seekers | Percentage of the population between 16 and 65 years of age registered with the public employment services to search for a job or for other purposes | % | SEPE, Municipal Register | Dec. 2019 | |
(8) Work intensity | Percentage of household members willing to work who work | % | Survey | 2019 | |
(9) No severe material deprivation | Constructed index that indicates the percentage of the population that lives in households that can afford at least six items out of a ratio of nine | % | Survey | 2019 | |
Welfare | (10) People served | Percentage of people served by community social service centres over the total population | % | SIUSS | 2019 |
(11) Social integration needs detected | Percentage of assessments made by community social services professionals on social integration needs presented by users | % | SIUSS | 2019 | |
(12) Resources applied to subsistence needs | Percentage of resources applied from community social service centres to meet subsistence needs of the population served | % | SIUSS | 2019 | |
Territorial | (13) Green zones | Total green areas per inhabitant, square meters per inhabitant | Square meters per inhab. | OMAU | 2019 |
(14) Altitude | Own elaboration from E:1.10.000 and from the centroid of each neighbourhood meters | meters | Topographic map | 2018 | |
(15) Orientation | Own elaboration from the MDT of Malaga with ArcGis | Degrees longitude | Topographic map | 2018 | |
(16) Torrentiality | Incidence of large downpours | Rate | AEMET | 2012 | |
(17) Differences on the maximum temperature | Own elaboration, through a field study based on a citizen science experiment | Degrees °C | Own elaboration | 2013 | |
(18) Accessibility | Index built from a group of proximity variables | % population | OMAU | 2019 | |
(19) Average size of the dwelling | Average size of the dwellings calculated from the size of the dwellings of the alphanumeric data of the cadastre | Square meters | OMAU. Cadastre | 2020 |
Var. | Wave1 | Wave2 | Wave3 | Wave4 | Final |
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(1) Dep Rate | −0.138 | 0 | 0.7188 | 0 | −0.5606 |
(2) 75+Alone | 0 | 0.2784 | −0.7016 | −0.5236 | 0 |
(3) Ageing | −0.663 | −0.265 | 0 | −0.855 | −0.5877 |
(4) LifExp | −0.3978 | 0 | 0 | 0.468 | 0.0128 |
(5) HousInc | −0.1324 | 0.7749 | 0.2798 | 0.6951 | 0.3864 |
(6) Illiterate | 0 | 0 | 0.8642 | 0.4294 | 0.3862 |
(7) JobSeek | −0.9179 | 0.9915 | 0.1588 | −0.0621 | −0.1967 |
(8) WorkInt | −0.1154 | 0 | 0.9325 | −0.2401 | 0.0296 |
(9) NoSevDep | 0 | 0 | 0.8625 | 0.6583 | 0.899 |
(10) PeopServ | −0.5864 | 0.5281 | 0 | 0 | 0.5591 |
(11) SocIntNeeds | −0.6669 | 0.3737 | 0.0119 | 0 | 0.8369 |
(12) NecSub | 0 | −0.3773 | −0.2207 | 0 | 0.5002 |
(13) GreenZon | 0 | −0.3854 | 0 | 0 | 0.6778 |
(14) Altitude | −0.7803 | −0.4487 | 0 | −0.0074 | 0.4026 |
(15) Aspect | −0.2769 | −0.6299 | 0 | 0 | −0.1042 |
(16) Torrenc | 0.8391 | 0.9279 | 0 | −0.1132 | 0.7266 |
(17) DifTMax | −0.3154 | −0.252 | −0.5051 | 0 | −0.898 |
(18) Accessib | 0.5754 | −0.6656 | 0.6002 | 0.0328 | −0.2536 |
(19) HomeSize | −0.8907 | 0.0299 | 0 | 0 | −0.5839 |
(20) NGOs’SocCare | 0.9594 | −0.3652 | 0 | 0 | −0.6207 |
(21) TourApart | 0.0103 | 0.7899 | 0 | 0 | 0.7361 |
Correlation | 0.6368 | 0.7428 | 0.6478 | 0.6666 | 0.7355 |
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Galacho-Jiménez, F.B.; Carruana-Herrera, D.; Molina, J.; Ruiz-Sinoga, J.D. Tempo-Spatial Modelling of the Spread of COVID-19 in Urban Spaces. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9764. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159764
Galacho-Jiménez FB, Carruana-Herrera D, Molina J, Ruiz-Sinoga JD. Tempo-Spatial Modelling of the Spread of COVID-19 in Urban Spaces. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(15):9764. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159764
Chicago/Turabian StyleGalacho-Jiménez, Federico Benjamín, David Carruana-Herrera, Julián Molina, and José Damián Ruiz-Sinoga. 2022. "Tempo-Spatial Modelling of the Spread of COVID-19 in Urban Spaces" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 15: 9764. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159764