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clarify relationship of nssp data on counties and HSAs (#1645)
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## Estimation
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The percent visits signals are calculated as a fraction of visits at facilities reporting to NSSP, rather than all facilities in the area.
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`county`, `state` and `nation` level data is reported as-is from NSSP, without modification, while `hhs`, `hrr` and `msa` are estimated by Delphi.
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State and HSA-level values are calculated and published by NSSP; County level values are not published individually, but are approximations copied from the HSA the county is in (every county in an HSA will have identical values).
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NSSP publishes this data based on reporting facilities aggregated to the level of Health Service Areas (`HSA`s, which are clusters of adjacent counties).
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NSSP also publishes these percentages aggregated to `state` and `nation` levels.
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While NSSP also publishes what appears like `county`-level data, these values are actually inherited from the parent HSA, such that all counties in an HSA have identical values.
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Delphi publishes NSSP's reported values for all these geo-levels, and also calculates and publishes values for `HRR`s and `MSA`s (based on the approximated `county` values), as well as for `HHS` regions."
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### Geographic weighting
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As the original data is a percentage and raw case counts are not available, `hrr`,`msa`, and `hhs` values are computed from county-level data using a weighted mean. Each county is assigned a weight equal to its population in the last census (2020). Unreported counties are implicitly treated as having a weight of 0 or a value equal to the group mean.

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