American Community Survey (ACS) data
The Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile allows states, health insurance navigators, and researchers to easily access important and comparable information about their communities. Learn more about using the profile tool and its accompanying map in this blog.
This post provides infographics that describe unaffordable rents data for the U.S. overall and for four geographically diverse states (Florida, Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) with varying levels of unaffordable rents.
Access to affordable and stable housing is a key driver of health. In this blog, SHADAC researchers explore and analyze the impact of unaffordable rent in the United States by state, disability status, income level, and more using SHADAC’s data tool, State Health Compare.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of telehealth services and the crucial role of broadband internet subscriptions in making those services possible. In this blog, we look at variation in states’ progress on improving the share of households with home broadband internet services… Read more
SHADAC consistently updates measures on our data tool, State Health Compare (SHC), in order to provide users with the most up-to-date available data. In this post, we review the health data sets and measures that have been recently updated with data from the ACS, CPS, BRFSS, and more.
This blog explores both the 2023 Data Release 1, the most recent T-MSIS race and ethnicity data for which a DQ assessment is available, and provides a brief analysis of data quality trends over time.
SHADAC is pleased to announce that the ‘Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile’ has been updated with 2024 American Community Survey estimates, thanks to the continued support from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation.
Accurate estimates of uninsured rates (the percentage of people that do not have insurance coverage, also referred to as uninsurance) are important in understanding trends and the impacts of actions, events, or shifts in the economic landscape that may affect health insurance coverage. Learn more… Read more
Recent federal policy changes have created uncertainty surrounding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data collection and availability in federal sources. This blog post will review the current known status of SOGI data in federal surveys and programs.
What is the American Community Survey? Our latest blog walks readers through a brief history of the ACS, including a basic explanation of how the ACS operates, information on ACS data collection, and how ACS data is used by researchers and policymakers.