Metadata Information

Overview

Originator:
Centers for Disease Control - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Title:
Socioeconomic Status Theme - Social Vulnerability Index, counties. 2014-2018 5-year ACS
Abstract:
The Socioeconomic Status Theme is one of four that composes the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulneratiblity Index. Four different variables derived from the United States Census Bureau's 5-year American Community Survey belong to this theme, including persons with an income below the poverty line, the civilian labor force who are unemployed, persons age 25 and older without a high school diploma, and per capita income. This set of variables was used for this theme from 2012-2018.
Time Period of Content Date:
2014-2018 5-year ACS
Theme Keywords:
Data is available for virtually all U.S. counties.
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_POV numeric Persons with income below the poverty level estimate NA
E_UNEMP numeric Civilian (age 16+) unemployed estimate NA
E_NOHSDP numeric Persons (age 25+) with no high school diploma estimate NA
E_PCI numeric Per capita income estimate NA
EP_PCI numeric Per capita income estimate NA
EP_POV numeric Percentage of persons below poverty estimate NA
EP_UNEMP numeric Unemployment rate estimate NA
EP_NOHSDP numeric Percentage of persons with no high school diploma (age 25+) estimate NA
EPL_POV numeric Percentile percentage of persons below poverty estimate NA
EPL_UNEMP numeric Percentile percentage of civilian (age 16+) unemployed estimate NA
EPL_NOHSDP numeric Percentile percentage of persons with no high school diploma (age 25+) estimate NA
SPL_theme1 numeric Sum of series (percentiles) for Socioeconomic Status theme NA
RPL_theme1 numeric Percentile ranking for Socioeconomic 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 (2018 == 2014-2018 ACS) NA