Metadata Information

Overview

Originator:
Centers for Disease Control - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Title:
Racial and Ethnic Minority Status Theme - Social Vulnerability Index, tract. 2012-2016 5-year ACS
Abstract:
The Racial and Ethnic Minority Status Theme is one of four that composes the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulneratiblity Index. One variable derived from the United States Census Bureau's 5-year American Community Survey belongs to this theme - persons indentifying as something other than Non-Hispanic White.
Time Period of Content Date:
2012-2016 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_MINRTY numeric Minority estimate (all persons who identify as something other than Non-Hispanic White) NA
EP_MINRTY numeric Percentage minority estimate (all persons who identify as something other than Non-Hispanic White) NA
EPL_MINRTY numeric Percentile percentage minority estimate (all persons who identify as something other than Non-Hispanic White) NA
SPL_theme3 numeric Sum of series (percentiles) for Racial and Ethnic Minority Status theme NA
RPL_theme3 numeric Percentile ranking for Racial and Ethnic Minority Status theme 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
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