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Government Information Resources for Community Health Planning in NYC

John PellAssistant ProfessorHunter College Libraries

+How to Follow Along

Go to http://libguides.library.hunter.cuny.edu/comhe411 (also can be found in the “research guides”) you can find the slides and

links to the resources we are discussing

+Overview

The Big Picture

Sources of Information on Population and Housing Characteristics + Demo!

Sources of Information on Health Characteristics + Demo!

Sources of Information on Education and Public Safety

Data Aggregators and Geographic Information Services + Demo!

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The Big PictureWhy learn about information retrieval systems?

+Information Literacy

The ACRL identifies a information literate person as one who… Knows how information is formally and informally

produced, organized, and disseminated. Investigates the scope, content, and organization of

information retrieval systems. Identifies a variety of types and formats of potential

sources for information. Realizes that information may need to be constructed

with raw data from primary sources. (Among other things)

“Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education”(2000) http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.

+Important things to know about survey data:Small data values are protected in order to avoid revealing the identities of individuals.

Your geography of interest may not be represented in existing surveys.

Data Aggregators may not present the most current raw data.

+Discussion Activity

Form groups that will address one of these topics: Sources of Information on Population and

Housing Characteristics Sources of Information on Health Characteristics Sources of Information on Education and Public

Safety Data Aggregators and Geographic Information

Services

+Discussion Activity

For your group’s topic:What are some examples of categories within

that topic? Why are these categories important? For example, one category of “Population Characteristics” might be

“country of origin.”

Try to come up with at least one organization that measures or produces this type of information.

Try to come up with one online or print resource that we can use to look up this type of information.

+Population and Housing Characteristics

U.S. Census and American Community Survey

+Population and Housing Characteristics

U.S. Census Bureau American Fact Finder

American Community SurveyU.S. Census

+Different Surveys, Different Content!

2000 Census

2010 Census

American Community Survey

+What’s in the 2000 Census?

Marital status

Place of birth, citizenship, and year of entry

School enrollment and educational attainment

Ancestry

Residence 5 years ago (migration)

Language spoken at home and ability to speak English

Veteran status

Disability

Grandparents as caregivers

Labor force status

Place of work and journey

to work

Occupation, industry, and

Class of worker

Work status in 1999

Income in 1999

Social Characteristics Employment Characteristics

+What’s in the 2000 Census?

· Units in structure

· Year structure built

· Number of rooms and

number of bedrooms

· Year moved into residence

· Plumbing and kitchen

facilities

· Telephone service

· Vehicles available

· Heating fuel

· Farm residence

· Value of home or monthly

rent paid

· Utilities, mortgage, taxes,

insurance, and fuel costs

Physical Housing Characteristics

Financial Characteristics

+What’s in the 2010 Census?

Age

Hispanic or Latino origin

Household relationship

Race

Sex

Tenure (whether the home is owned or rented)

Vacancy characteristics

+American Community Survey?

The ACS collects and produces population and housing information every year instead of every ten years.

Releases 1, 3, and 5 year estimates 1 year estimates cover populations of +65,000 3 year estimates cover populations of +20,000 5 years estimates cover populations of almost any size.

Further refines categories of the 2000 census

More about what’s in the ACS: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/data_documentation/SubjectDefinitions/2010_ACSSubjectDefinitions.pdf

+American Fact Finder

You may build a query by selecting various topics,

geographies, and population characteristics.

You also have the option of working from specific data

sources.

+American Fact Finder

FactFinder helps you to build a query with expandable lists that drill down to increasingly specific

topics.

+American Fact Finder

As you develop your query, the topics that you select will appear

here. Once you have selected the topics, populations, and

geographies you are interested in, you can try to produce a

table.

+American Fact Finder

Opening “table tools” allows you to collapse, expand,

and rearrange sections of your

table

You can download your table as a PDF, Excel, or plain text file ( you may also print or permalink

it.)

NOTE: “Map View” is currently not

supported for all geographies.

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Health CharacteristicsEpiQuery

+Health Characteristics

New York City Department of Health and Mental HygieneEpiquery

Community Health Survey Communicable Disease Surveillance Sy

stem

NYC Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Youth Risk Behavior Survey Vital Statistics

+What’s in Epiquery?

New York City Community Health Survey (CHS) A telephone survey based upon the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention’s National Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), that is conducted annually by the DOHMH, Division of Epidemiology, Bureau of Epidemiology Services. CHS provides data on the health of New Yorkers.

Communicable Disease Surveillance System Data are derived from reports filed with the New York City

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) as required by Section 11.03 of the N ew York City Health Code. Reported cases, crude rates and age-adjusted rates (per 100,000 population) are available by select demographic (age group, sex) and geographic (borough, neighborhood) characteristics.

+What’s in EpiQuery?

New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey The New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES) is a

community-based health survey conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Data was collected from June through December 2004. NYC HANES measured key health indicators in a sample of 1,999 randomly selected NYC adult residents through a detailed health interview and brief physical exam.

NYC Youth Risk Behavior Survey Conducted in odd-numbered years since 1997 to monitor priority health risk

behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among youth in New York City. Students complete a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire that measures a variety of behaviors, including tobacco, alcohol and drug use, unintentional injury and violence, sexual behaviors, dietary behaviors, and physical activity.

The NYC YRBS can provide prevalence data for the city as a whole, for each of the five boroughs starting in 2003, and (since 2005) for three high-risk neighborhoods - the South Bronx, North and Central Brooklyn, and East and Central Harlem in Manhattan - where the DOHMH has its District Public Health Offices.

+What’s in EpiQuery?

Vital Statistics Statistics for overall mortality, mortality by cause and the

top 10 leading causes of death and birth statistics by year since 2000 are now available on EpiQuery, as well as death trends since 1994. Some data have been censored to ensure data security and confidentiality. As a result, the user may find slight differences among vital statistics presented in EpiQuery, data presented in the annual Summary of Vital Statistics, and data obtained directly from the Office of Vital Statistics.

+EpiQuery

Begin by selecting the data collection you want to work with: Community Health Survey, STD or Disease Surveillance, Risk

Behavior Survey, Nutrition Survey, or Vital Statistics

+EpiQuery

The layout and features of EpiQuery depend on the

dataset that you are using, but it generally starts with basic options and helps you build

more specific queries.

+Education and Public Saftey

NYC Department of Education and NYC Police Department

+Education and Public Safety

NYC Police Department Weekly Crime Statistics

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml

Historical Crime Statistics http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/analysis_and_plannin

g/historical_nyc_crime_data.shtml

NYC Department of Education Graduation Results Test Results NYC School Survey of Parents, Teachers, and Students

+GIS and Data Aggregation

NYCity Map and InfoShare

+Data Aggregators

NYCityMap

InfoShare

+NYCityMap

+NYCityMap

By selecting “Show additional data on map,” it

is possible to display various municipal

boundaries, such as census tracts.

+InfoShare

Provides data for “NYC Neighborhood” geographic units http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/neighbor/neighbor.pdf

(map with approximate neighborhood locations) http://www.infoshare.org/misc/NYCNeighborhoods.pdf

(InfoShare’s map of neighborhood boundries)

Uses overlap factors to estimate statistics for geographies of interest when surveys for the area are not available.

Provides Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) Hospitalization Data.

Provides Area Profiles and allows the construction of specific tables.

+In-Class Exercise

Fill out your Health Ecology Worksheet for your assigned Community, I am here to help!