Data Dive 2012

March 2, 2012

KIDS COUNT

• What is D.C. KIDS COUNT?

• Philosophy: Where children live, learn and play deeply affects all aspects of their lives

• Hypothesis: Concentrated poverty (and privilege) in D.C. drives inequity / inequality –it’s about more than differences in individuals and families, it’s about neighborhoods

Questions

• Build visualizations of selected traditional child well-being data sets (not including place data yet)

• Overlay place data on top of traditional data sets

• Investigate and propose simple prototype of index of neighborhood well-being for children

• Build and visualize prototype well-being index

Datasets

Well-being Indicators/Outcomes

• Test scores (OSSE)

• Child Poverty (ACS/Census)

• Income by Census Tract (ACS/Census)

• Housing by Census Tract (2010 Census)

• Crime incidents (data.dc.gov)

Datasets (cont’d)

Place Indicators

• Census tracts

• Neighborhood clusters

• Wards

• Quadrants

• Metro entrances