This repo contains the analysis done to investigate the deaths of people experiencing homelessness.
The number of deaths in people experiencing homelessness has been increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data obtained between 2017 and 2023 from the City of Toronto's Open Data Portal, we investigated the cause of deaths in people experiencing homelessness by age and gender. We found that drug toxicity is the leading cause of death, with the highest numbers observed among men aged 40 to 59 in 2021. Our discovery reveals the hidden impacts of the pandemic on people experiencing homelessness who use drugs and highlights the need for improved services.
The repo is structured as:
input/data contains the data sources used in analysis including the raw data.input/sketches contains a sketch of the dataset and graph created during the planning phase.outputs/data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.outputs/paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper. scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate, download, and clean data.Statement on LLM usage: No LLMs were used for any aspect of this work.