Data Sources

Health and Health Care

The connection between people's access to and understasnding of health services and their own health. This domain includes key issues such as access to healthcare, access to primary care, health insurance coverage, and health literacy.

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Education Access and Quality

The connection of education to health and wellbeing. This domain includes key issues such as graduating from high school, enrollment in higher education, educational attainment in general, language and literacy, and early childhood education and development.

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Social and Community Context

The connection between characteristics of the contexts within which people live, learn, work, and play, and their health and wellbeing. This includes topics like cohesion within a community, civic participation, discrimination, conditions in the workplace, and incarceration.

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Economic Stability

The connection between the financial resources people have – income, cost of living, and socioeconomic status – and their health. This area includes key issues such as poverty, employment, food security, and housing stability.

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Neighborhood and Built Environment

The connection between where a person lives – housing, neighborhood, and environment – and their health and wellbeing. This includes topics like quality of housing, access to transportation, availability of healthy foods, air and water quality, and neighborhood crime and violence.

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Variable	Notes	Source
Population	Census, July 1, 2019.	Link
Unemployment	Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted for 2019 annual report.	Link
Uninsured	Percentage of population under age 65 without health insurance.	Link
Median Households Cost	Applying the House Price Index growth from FHFA to the latest housing data from the American Community Survey (ACS).	Link
Bachelors Degree Holder	VA Bachelors Degree or Better Education.	Link
Poverty	All people in poverty (2018), and children ages 0-17.	Link
Health Literacy	The health literacy estimates on this site range from 177 to 280, with higher numbers indicating higher health literacy.	Link
Poverty (Ages 5-17 in Familiies), Household Income	U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates.	Link
SNAP Households	U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.	Link
STD Rates	Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) infections, numbers of cases and rate per 100,000 (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS, Early Syphillis).	Link
4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate and Total	The Virginia On-Time Graduation Rate defines graduates as students who earn Advanced Studies, Standard, IB, or Applied Studies Diplomas for students who entered the ninth-grade for the first time together and were scheduled to graduate four years later (2019).	Link
Violent, Property, and Arson Crime	FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, data presented in Crime in the United States reflect the Hierarchy Rule, which requires that only the most serious offense in a multiple-offense criminal incident be counted (2019).	Link
Percent Single Parent Households, Minority, and Limited English Speaking Ability	Single parent household with children under 18, Minority (all persons except white, non-Hispanic) estimate, persons (age 5+) who speak English "less than well" (2014-2018 ACS).	Link

Variable

Notes

Source

Population

Census, July 1, 2019.

Link

Unemployment

Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted for 2019 annual report.

Link

Uninsured

Percentage of population under age 65 without health insurance.

Link

Median Households Cost

Applying the House Price Index growth from FHFA to the latest housing data from the American Community Survey (ACS).

Link

Bachelors Degree Holder

VA Bachelors Degree or Better Education.

Link

Poverty

All people in poverty (2018), and children ages 0-17.

Link

Health Literacy

The health literacy estimates on this site range from 177 to 280, with higher numbers indicating higher health literacy.

Link

Poverty (Ages 5-17 in Familiies), Household Income

U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates.

Link

SNAP Households

U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Link

STD Rates

Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) infections, numbers of cases and rate per 100,000 (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS, Early Syphillis).

Link

4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate and Total

The Virginia On-Time Graduation Rate defines graduates as students who earn Advanced Studies, Standard, IB, or Applied Studies Diplomas for students who entered the ninth-grade for the first time together and were scheduled to graduate four years later (2019).

Link

Violent, Property, and Arson Crime

FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, data presented in Crime in the United States reflect the Hierarchy Rule, which requires that only the most serious offense in a multiple-offense criminal incident be counted (2019).

Link

Percent Single Parent Households, Minority, and Limited English Speaking Ability

Single parent household with children under 18, Minority (all persons except white, non-Hispanic) estimate, persons (age 5+) who speak English "less than well" (2014-2018 ACS).

Link