Data documentation.

We have cleaned and processed over 400 datasets as part of our work, and plan on continuing to ingest new data, as well as updating data with new releases. Below you will find some basic info on the main datasets we work with.

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Dataset Name	Category	Summary	Data Link	Time Span	Geography
Am I Rural Tool [RHI]	Health and Safety	Interactive map for exploring county-level data on issues that impact rural health, including rural demographics, health disparities, the health workforce, and other topics.	Link	latest	tract
American Community Survey (ACS) 1YR Estimates [USCB]	Population and Demographic Data	The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether people own or rent their homes, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan for hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more. Learn more about this dataset: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/summary-file-documentation.html	Link	2006-2017	county
American Community Survey (ACS) 5YR Estimates [USCB]	Population and Demographic Data	The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether people own or rent their homes, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan for hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more. Learn more about this dataset: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/summary-file-documentation.html	Link	2006-2017	census
Annual Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) [BLS]	Economy	The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.	Link	1990-2019	county
Area Health Resources Files [HRSA]	Health and Safety	This dataset contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics.	Link	2017-2018	county
Banks [FDIC]	Financial Institutions	A comprehensive summary of the most current financial results for the banking industry, along with feature articles.	Link	1984-2019	point
Brewery Directory [BA]	Community and Community Assets	Looking for a brewery? The BA staff is continually updating this data to make this the most comprehensive list of U.S. and international breweries available. Brewers Association members are denoted by BA logo. Brewery employees who need to submit corrections or updates can do so through the company admin portal or reach out to us at	Link	latest	point (address)
Business Starts and Stops [SUSB]	Economy	SUSB is an annual series that provides national and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by enterprise size and industry.	Link	1988-2016	county
College Scorecard [ED]	Education	The College Scorecard is designed to increase transparency, putting the power in the hands of the public — from those choosing colleges to those improving college quality — to see how well different schools are serving their students.	Link	1996-2017	point (coordinates)
Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) [USDT]	Financial Institutions	Transaction Level Report: A catalog of CDFI investments from 2003 - 2015. Included are microbusiness loans, real estate (single family and multifamily) and a range of variable about the investee.	Link	2003-2015	tract
Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) [FMT]	Health and Safety	The national CAH database provides the name, location, size, and date of certification for all 1,300+ CAHs in the U.S.	Link	2004-2019	point (address)
Death of Despair [CDC]	Health and Safety	The death of despair deaths from years 2013-2017 from alcohol-related diseases (K70, K73–74, X45, Y15), suicide (X60–84, Y87.0), and drug- and alcohol-related poisonings (X40–44, Y10–14, Y45, 47, 49). Poisonings are deaths from excessive alcohol and overdoses of prescription and illegal drugs that are considered to be accidental or from undetermined intent.	Link	2013-2017	county
Distressed Communities Index (DCI) [EIG]	Economy	EIG used its Distressed Communities Index (DCI) to compare two distinct time periods: 2007-2011 and 2012-2016. The DCI combines seven complementary metrics into a single measure of economic well-being, resulting in a clear snapshot of the economic and social state of the U.S. zip codes, counties, cities, and congressional districts.	Link	2007-2016	county
Drug Treatment Facilities [HHS - SAMHSA]	Health and Safety	Eligible substance use and addiction treatment facilities provided by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)	Link	latest	point (coordinates)
Duty to Serve Rural Areas Data [FHFA]	Geographic Eligibility and Incentives	The Duty to Serve Program will award Duty to Serve credit for very low-, low-, and moderate income families tied to specific high needs and high opportunity areas as defined by the Duty to Serve regulation.	Link	2016-2018	tract
Economic Research Service (ERS) [USDA]	Economy	The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America provides statistics by broad categories of socioeconomic factors: People: Demographic data from the American Community Survey (ACS), including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size, and family composition. Jobs: Economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, and industrial composition of employment from the ACS. County classifications: The rural-urban continuum, economic dependence, persistent poverty, persistent child poverty, population loss, onshore oil/natural gas counties, and other ERS county typology codes. Income: Data on median household income, per capita income, and poverty (including child poverty). Veterans: Data on veterans, including service period, education, unemployment, income, and demographic characteristics.	Link		county
Form 477 [FCC]	Telecommunications	Data is Block-level wireline broadband max advertised upload and download speeds. Who Reports: All facilities-based broadband providers are required to file data with the FCC twice a year (Form 477) on where they offer Internet access service at speeds exceeding 200 kbps in at least one direction.	Link	6/2014 - 6/2018	block
Geospatial Data Access Project [EPA]	Energy, Extraction, and Heavy Industry	To improve public health and the environment, the EPA collects information about facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation.	Link		point (coordinates)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [CMS]	Health and Safety	HRSA programs provide health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable. This includes people living with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, mothers and their families, and those otherwise unable to access high quality health care. HRSA also supports access to health care in rural areas, the training of health professionals, the distribution of providers to areas where they are needed most, and improvements in health care delivery.	Link	To 2019	point (coordinates)
High Opportunity Areas [FHFA]	Geographic Eligibility and Incentives	The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 establishes a duty for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to serve the housing needs of very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three specified underserved markets – manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation, and rural housing. FHFA’s Duty to Serve regulation provides eligibility for extra credit for Enterprise activities that promote “residential economic diversity,” as defined in the regulation. Residential economic diversity activities include Enterprise activities in connection with mortgages on affordable housing in “high opportunity areas,” as defined in the regulation and FHFA’s Duty to Serve Evaluation Guidance. FHFA’s 2017 High Opportunity Areas File designates the specific census tracts that qualify as high opportunity areas for purposes of the Duty to Serve program.	Link	2017	tract
High Opportunity Areas [HUD]	Geographic Eligibility and Incentives	The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 establishes a duty for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to serve the housing needs of very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three specified underserved markets – manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation, and rural housing. FHFA’s Duty to Serve regulation provides eligibility for extra credit for Enterprise activities that promote “residential economic diversity,” as defined in the regulation. Residential economic diversity activities include Enterprise activities in connection with mortgages on affordable housing in “high opportunity areas,” as defined in the regulation and FHFA’s Duty to Serve Evaluation Guidance. FHFA’s 2017 High Opportunity Areas File designates the specific census tracts that qualify as high opportunity areas for purposes of the Duty to Serve program.	Link	2017	polygon
HIV Prevalence [CDC - NCHHSTP]	Health and Safety	CDC collects, analyzes, and disseminates surveillance data on diagnoses of HIV infection; these data are the nation’s source of information on HIV in the United States. Numbers and rates are presented based on the date of diagnosis of HIV infection and infection classified as stage 3 (AIDS).	Link	2012-2016	county
Income Limits [HUD]	Geographic Eligibility and Incentives	These are 30% Income Limits, calculated with high and low housing cost adjustments, state non-metropolitan minimum but without the increases for poverty guidelines in the Section 8 Extremely Low Family Incomes	Link	1990-2020	county, msa
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) [NCES]	Education	IPEDS has five module-based tutorials from the Distance Learning Dataset Training System (DLDT), which is an online tool designed to facilitate analysis in postsecondary students, faculty, staff, and resources.	Link	1988-2019	point (coordinates)
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) [USCB - CES]	Economy	The source data for the QWI is the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) linked employer-employee microdata. The LEHD data is massive longitudinal database covering over 95% of U.S. private sector jobs. Much of this data is collected via a unique federal-state data sharing collaboration, the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership. LED is a cooperative venture between the LEHD program at the U.S. Census Bureau and state agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Partner states voluntarily submit quarterly data files from existing administrative record systems, which are combined with a range of other data sources to generate public use products, including QWI and LODES (LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics, presented in OnTheMap) and other new products in development. By integrating data used to administer public programs with existing census and surveys, a new national jobs database is generated at very low cost and with no additional respondent burden.	Link	1990-2017	county
Monthly Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) [BLS]	Economy	The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.	Link	2019-2020	county
Multiple Cause of Death (MCD) [CDC]	Health and Safety	CDC WONDER, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is an integrated information and communication system for public health. Its purposes are: To promote information-driven decision making by placing timely, useful facts in the hands of public health practitioners and researchers, and To provide the general public with access to specific and detailed information from CDC.	Link	2006-2017	county
National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) [PAHRC]	Housing	The National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) was created by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) in 2011 in an effort to provide communities with the information they need to effectively preserve their stock of public and affordable housing.	Link	latest	point (address)
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) [US NPS]	Community and Community Assets	The official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources. The National Register geospatial dataset is intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all cultural resources that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, this dataset excludes all features deemed 'restricted' or 'sensitive', such as sensitive archaeological sites.	Link	2014-2018	point, polygon
National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) [USDOT]	Transportation	The National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), published by BTS, is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, transportation networks, and associated infrastructure.	Link	1995-present	polyline, point (coordinates)
Opioid Overdose [CDC]	Health and Safety	The opioid overdose deaths from years 2013-2017 from F11 (Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids), T40 (Poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens]),T40.0 (Opium),T40.1 (Heroin),T40.2 (Other opioids),T40.3 (Methadone),T40.4 (Other synthetic narcotics),T40.6 (Other and unspecified narcotics)	Link	2013-2017	county
Opportunity Zones (OZ) [USDT]	Geographic Eligibility and Incentives	Based on nominations of eligible census tracts by the Chief Executive Officers of each State, Treasury has completed its designation of Qualified Opportunity Zones. Each State nominated the maximum number of eligible tracts, per statute, and these designations are final. The statute and legislative history of the Opportunity Zone designations, under IRC § 1400Z, do not contemplate an opportunity for additional or revised designations after the maximum number of zones allowable have been designated in a State or Territory.	Link	latest	tract
Power Plants [EIA]	Energy, Extraction, and Heavy Industry	Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source. This includes all plants that are operating, on standby, or short- or long-term out of service with a combined nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more.	Link	To April 2019	point (coordinates)
Rural Hospital Closures [UNC - Sheps Center]	Health and Safety	The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collected 106 Rural Hospital Closures: January 2010 to Present followed the convention of the Office of Inspector General that a closed hospital.	Link	2010-present	point (address)
TIGER/Line [USCB]	Boundaries	The TIGER/Line Shapefiles contain a standard geographic identifier for each entity that links to the geographic identifier in the data from censuses and surveys.	Link	2000-2018	census
U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) [Urban]	Health and Safety	The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015.	Link		tract
USASpending [USDT]	Deployed Funds	usaspending-db_20190708.zip (51 GB)	Link		point (address)

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