RECVD created a protocol for classifying potentially health-relevant establishments from commercially licensed established data. Our categorization of annual retail location data from the National Establishment Time Series dataset (1990-2014) used 8-digit Standard Industrial Classification codes, informed by prior literature. Systematic spot checks were conducted across 30 locations of varying urbanicity in all 10 US census regions (to inform the inclusion or exclusion of 81 SIC codes in the health-relevant categories establishments). Our protocol was presented at the 2020 Society for Prevention Research, and published in the Journal of Urban Health in 2020.
Hirsch, J.A., Moore, K.A., Cahill, J., Quinn, J., Zhao, Y., Bayer, F.J., Rundle, A. and Lovasi, G.S., 2020. Business Data Categorization and Refinement for Application in Longitudinal Neighborhood Health Research: a Methodology. Journal of Urban Health, pp.1-14.