The fourth edition of the Community #Wellbeing Index publications are now available at http://www.ctdatahaven.org.

This year's publications have 98 pages of data graphics. There are expanded sections this year on housing, traffic safety, internet access, racial/ethnic isolation, and criminal justice.

Information for all 169 towns in #Connecticut is published in the DataHaven town equity reports, as well as many other reports. #internationaldayofhappiness #nnip #hartford #newhaven #bridgeportct

New: The Congressional District Health Dashboard, with data on health and social drivers for all US congressional districts, just launched:
https://www.congressionaldistricthealthdashboard.org/about
Data for #Connecticut state legislative districts can be found at DataHaven’ profiles, ctdatahaven.org/data-dashboard #nnip #publichealth
via DataHaven (@ctdata )

“Black women in #Connecticut are 7 times more likely than white men or white women to say that it is likely they will have to leave their homes in the next 2 months due to being behind on housing payments, according to the 2021 DataHaven #WellbeingSurvey.” — DataHaven (@ctdata ) #evictions #HousingCrisis #nnip

“The same detail with which we have [data on the state of the labor force]—monthly estimates by age, race, sex, education, occupation, industry, state—should be produced to measure poverty; food access; housing security, #eviction; … health access, among others." @keds_economist https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/business/economy/economic-indicator-charts-measures.html #foodsecurity #economy #nnip

Check out Connecticut Children's newly-released Community Health Needs Assessment!

The report uses extensive data from DataHaven's Town Equity Reports and #WellbeingSurvey throughout, in order to paint a portrait of conditions that impact #Hartford’s children and families. It also has many recommendations to address key findings.
https://advancingkids.org/2023/01/05/community-health-needs-assessment-highlights-opportunities-for-children/ #connecticut #publichealth #hospital #healthcare #gunviolence #nnip cc @Urban_Dispatch @whateversusan

ICYMI last month, we updated the DataHaven Communities pages with the latest 2021 #Census 5Y ACS data, released just this week. Although many of our other resources, such as our Town Equity Reports, are more comprehensive, these pages are quite popular too. They were designed by a group of national data experts to be super easy to navigate and use! Learn more at https://www.ctdatahaven.org/communities. #nnip #wellbeingsurvey #connecticut #dataviz #demographics #waterbury #hartford #nhv #stamfordct #bridgeportct

Map: Use the #Census website to explore the poverty rate in #Connecticut census tracts, using the recently-released (2017-2021) 5-year #ACSdata: https://data.census.gov/map?t=Poverty&g=0400000US09$1400000&tid=ACSDP5Y2021.DP03&cid=DP03_0128PE&layer=VT_2021_140_00_PY_D1&mode=thematic&loc=41.7602,-72.6901,z11.3760 #nnip #poverty #mapping #demographics

The Massive Data Institute at Georgetown is hosting a virtual Green Space Data Challenge competition in February 2023. $5,000 top prize in each of 4 categories. Everyone who likes #rstats #geography #urbanplanning #trees #sociology #spatialstats #mapping #datascience #publichealth #gis #dataviz #nnip #forestry should consider applying
https://mdi.georgetown.edu/pbi/greenspace/ #highered

Newly-released #Census data show #Connecticut added an estimated 20,263 residents from April 2020 to July 2022, a 0.6% increase (same as the US rate). Among 50 states, this places the state 23rd and 25th in population growth and growth rate, respectively, since 2020. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2022-population-estimates.html #demographics #nnip via DataHaven @ctdata

Newly-released #Census data show #Connecticut added an estimated 20,263 residents from April 2020 to July 2022, a 0.6% increase (same as the US rate). Among 50 states, this places the state 23rd and 25th in population growth and growth rate, respectively, since 2020. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2022-population-estimates.html #demographics #nnip via DataHaven @ctdata

One of the most striking charts showing how the pandemic exposed underlying social #inequality: Life expectancy declined by 5 to 6 years in the lowest-income neighborhoods of CA, but barely changed in the wealthiest ones.
[Schwandt et al 2022 "Changes in the Relationship Between Income and #LifeExpectancy Before and During the #COVID19 Pandemic, #California, 2015-2021]
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2794146 #publichealth #MedMastodon #healthequity #demographics #sociology #nnip
c @jks
@gregggonsalves

DataHaven is presenting preliminary neighborhood-level data from the #CommunityIndex at all of New Haven’s Community Management Team neighborhood associations. Tonight we are at the Westville meeting at Edgewood Park’s beautiful Coogan Pavilion. Data are available for all neighborhoods and towns statewide, so reach out if your town or neighborhood association would like to learn more! #nhv #nnip #newhaven #qualityoflife #research #connecticut

In the #NHV area, #Woodbridge is a hotspot of climate change emissions per capita : NYTimes interactive https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/climate-footprint-map-neighborhood.html #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #climateaction #connecticut #newhaven #emissions #mapstodon #nnip c @KateRozen

Within some #FairfieldCounty #Connecticut neighborhoods, more than 2 out of every 100 residents (2%) are currently incarcerated — more than 30X the rate in other neighborhoods in the area. These neighborhood-level rates are averages: Among some groups such as men, young adults, and persons who identify as Black, these percentages are considerably higher. Some of the data used here comes from Prison Policy Initiative. Learn more in the next edition of our #CommunityIndex. #massincarceration #nnip

In the #Chicago area, the percent of adults who live in the same neighborhood where they grew up ranges from over 30% in areas of the #SouthSide, #LittleVillage, #Bridgeport, #Wrigleyville to less than 10% in #LincolnPark and many areas around #downtown. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/ #CHI #demographics #sociology #mapstodon #maps #nnip #illinois

Available for all 169 #Connecticut towns, DataHaven's town equity reports reports disaggregate data from the #2020Census, ACS microdata files, DataHaven Community #WellbeingSurvey record-level files, and other federal and state sources to create relevant town-level information that is not typically available from standard public databases.

We have also created reports on request for custom-defined geographic regions, such as agency service areas.

https://www.ctdatahaven.org/reports/connecticut-town-equity-reports #nnip #demographics

"When the history of American hardship is written... two recent events may capture the whipsaw forces of the age. Child poverty fell to a record low. And [then] the program that did the most to reduce it vanished."
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/politics/child-tax-credit.html

Research Roundup of the Expanded #ChildTaxCredit: New from #Columbia: https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/publication/2022/child-tax-credit/research-roundup-one-year-on

In CT, food insecurity doubled among adults with children from 2021 to 2022: @ctdata https://www.ctdatahaven.org/blog/datahaven-survey-finds-food-insecurity-nearly-doubled-connecticut-2022 (photo)

#foodsecurity #nnip cc @whateversusan

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#introduction At DataHaven, our mission is to empower people to create thriving communities by collecting and ensuring access to data on well-being, equity, and quality of life. We have served #Connecticut as a nonprofit organization since 1992. DataHaven is a partner of #NNIP, a network of independent organizations in 30 cities that share a mission to ensure all communities have access to data and the skills to use information to advance equity and well-being across neighborhoods.

How to browse some of the information at DataHaven (ctdatahaven.org) - couldn’t upload the actual 1 minute video here, so here’s a link to it on the DataHaven Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjD5CUXpB8T/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= #nnip #wellbeingsurvey #connecticut