Selecting Indicators

National Data Repositories

• U.S. Census and American Community Survey:

  • American Fact Finder (searchable access to Census and ACS data): http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

  • Cartographic Boundary Files (shapefiles for census geographies): http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart- boundary.html

  • Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics On the Map Tool: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/

• Community Commons (open repository of GIS data layers at various geographies): http://www.communitycommons.org/

• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level:http://communityscience.com/knowledge4equity/DataSetDirectory.pdf

• Data.gov (federal, state, and local government data): http://catalog.data.gov/dataset

• HUD Community Planning and Development Maps (maps and data on demographic, socioeconomic, and housing related indicators): http://egis.hud.gov/cpdmaps/#

• Urban Institute list of online data catalogs and repositories:

  • Overall list with descriptions http://datavis.urban.org/resources/

  • List of sources by geography: http://datavis.urban.org/geosearch.cfm

• Social Explorer (demographic and socioeconomic data and maps): http://www.socialexplorer.com/

• Geocommons (open repository of data and maps): http://geocommons.com/

• EPA’s EnviroMapper for Envirofacts (environmental data): http://www.epa.gov/emefdata/em4ef.home

• CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (disease rates and health behaviors): http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/

• U.S. Department of Transportation Data and Statistics (transportation and housing travel related data): http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/data_and_statistics/index.html

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data) http://www.consumerfinance.gov/hmda/

• Zip/County Business Patterns (ZBP) data: http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html

• National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data (NCES-CCD): http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pubschuniv.asp