Metadata Information

Overview

Originator:
Centers for Disease Control - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Title:
Household Characteristics Theme - Social Vulnerability Index, zcta. 2017-2021 5-year ACS
Abstract:
The Household Characteristics Theme is one of four that composes the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulneratiblity Index. Five different variables derived from the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey belong to this theme, including persons age 65 and older, persons age 17 and younger, civilian noninstitutionalized population with a disability, households headed by a single parent, and persons age 5 and older who speak English 'less than well'.
Time Period of Content Date:
2017-2021 5-year ACS
Theme Keywords:
Data is available for virtually all U.S. zcta.
Contact Person Information:
TBD

Data Quality

Completeness:
Data are available for the United States. Data are not provided for Puerto Rico or the US territories.
Missing Data:
TBD
Lineage:
The findSVI R package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/findSVI/index.html) was used the compute the variables for this theme. This R package depends on the tidyCensus R package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/findSVI/index.html) to access American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau's API.

Distribution

Publisher:
Healthy Communities Data Portal
Publication Date:
2025

Attributes

Column Type Label Description
E_AGE65 numeric Persons aged 65 and older estimate NA
E_AGE17 numeric Persons aged 17 and younger estimate NA
E_DISABL numeric Civilian noninstitutionalized population with a disability estimate NA
E_SNGPNT numeric Single-parent household with children under 18 estimate NA
E_LIMENG numeric Persons (age 5+) who speak English 'less than well' estimate NA
EP_AGE65 numeric Percentage of persons aged 65 and older estimate NA
EP_AGE17 numeric Percentage of persons aged 17 and younger estimate NA
EP_DISABL numeric Percentage of civilian noninstitutionalized population with a disability estimate NA
EP_SNGPNT numeric Percentage of single-parent households with children under 18 estimate NA
EP_LIMENG numeric Percentage of persons (age 5+) who speak English 'less than well' estimate NA
EPL_AGE65 numeric Percentile percentage of persons aged 65 and older estimate NA
EPL_AGE17 numeric Percentile percentage of persons aged 17 and younger estimate NA
EPL_DISABL numeric Percentile percentage of civilian noninstitutionalized population with a disability estimate NA
EPL_SNGPNT numeric Percentile percentage of single-parent households with children under 18 estimate NA
EPL_LIMENG numeric Percentile percentage of persons (age 5+) who speak English 'less than well' estimate NA
SPL_theme2 numeric Sum of series (percentiles) for Household Characteristics theme NA
RPL_theme2 numeric Percentile ranking for Household Characteristics theme NA
E_HU numeric Housing units estimate NA
E_HH numeric Households estimate NA
GEOID character FIPS code NA
NAME character Geographic unit name NA
STATE character State abbreviation NA
YEAR numeric 5-year ACS dataset on which measures are based NA