She has conducted social network analysis to examine collaboration between MIECHV programs and its various partners; constructed GIS maps to examine participant locations relative to the percentage of unemployment, uninsured, and poverty for each program at
the census tract level; and has assisted in projects using MIECHV data to answer questions related to maternal depression, characteristics of teen moms in the program, and impact of interpersonal violence on birth outcomes.
Not exact matches
«So far, we are finding that they do predict area -
level health outcomes at various
levels: zip code,
census tract, county and state,» she says.
Specifically, it provides data up to the
census -
tract level that estimates where cheap healthy food is accessible and where it is not.
Once
census tracts were categorized as predominantly black, white, or Hispanic, we used
census tract -
level median household income from the U.S.
Census Bureau alongside the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) and Zillow Rent Index (ZRI) to calculate rent and mortgage burdens in
census tracts.
We then aggregated
census tracts up to the metropolitan area and national
level, requiring that a given racial community make up at least 1 % of the population in the metro.
While the aggregated HMDA data, which shows lending activity by race / ethnicity / sex, geographic location, income
levels, type of collateral, and economic status of
census tracts or blocks, does not prove discrimination, it may reveal lending patterns that warrant further investigation by federal financial regulators.