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# Statement of need
Generic social vulnerability indices for large regions can be lacking in their ability to identify at risk populations [@Tate_2012; @Nelson_2015; @Tellman_2020]. Furthermore, not all vulnerability indices are created equal, and users, researchers, and developers should clearly state the objectives and structure of their index in order to accurately present their findings [@Bakkensen_2016]. Research utilizing SVIs has historically been limited to either existing national or regional databases [@Cutter_2003; @Flanagan_2011; VanZandt_2012; Bixler_2021a]. Researchers that want to incorporate social vulnerability information into their research are therefore limited to these existing databases and their pre-determined variable choices, or developing their own index from scratch. Furthermore, researchers’ understanding of what contributes to vulnerability is variable in both time and space [@Cutter_2008]. Therefore, it is necessary to tailor SVIs to the context in which they are being applied.
Generic social vulnerability indices for large regions can be lacking in their ability to identify at risk populations [@Tate_2012; @Nelson_2015; @Tellman_2020]. Furthermore, not all vulnerability indices are created equal, and users, researchers, and developers should clearly state the objectives and structure of their index in order to accurately present their findings [@Bakkensen_2016]. Research utilizing SVIs has historically been limited to either existing national or regional databases [@Cutter_2003; @Flanagan_2011; @VanZandt_2012; @Bixler_2021a]. Researchers that want to incorporate social vulnerability information into their research are therefore limited to these existing databases and their pre-determined variable choices, or developing their own index from scratch. Furthermore, researchers’ understanding of what contributes to vulnerability is variable in both time and space [@Cutter_2008]. Therefore, it is necessary to tailor SVIs to the context in which they are being applied.

*SVInsight* is an accessible and open-source tool to quickly calculate SVIs for a user-defined region using either custom or a research supported pre-set list of social and demographic variables. This package creates a pipeline between extensively large datasets and easily customizable SVIs, allowing researchers to experiment and manipulate various indices (e.g., general vulnerability, economic, race/ethnicity, etc.) built on a variety of variables more efficiently and effectively.*SVInsight* calculates SVIs built on data from the Census Bureau's 5-Year American Community Survey using the two leading methods for calculating such metrics: a composite score using a data reduction methodology [@Cutter_2003] and a ranking method [@Flanagan_2011]. There is a recently published package in R that is capable of calculating the Rank Method SVI [@Xu_2024], but to the best of the author’s knowledge there is no open source factor analysis based SVI package.

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