Metadata Information

Overview

Originator:

Centers for Disease Control - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Title:

Overall Theme - Social Vulnerability Index, tract. 2015-2019 5-year ACS

Abstract:

The Overall Theme combines information from the other four themes (Socioeconomic Status, Race and Ethnicity, Household, and Housing/Transport) into overall CDC/ATSDR Social Vulneratiblity Index.

Time Period of Content Date:

2015-2019 5-year ACS

Theme Keywords:

Data is available for virtually all U.S. tract.

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_TOTPOP	numeric	Population estimate	NA
SPL_themes	numeric	Sum of series themes	NA
RPL_themes	numeric	Overall percentile ranking	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