CTData has been working hard to update our data and data projects to reflect the ACS 2020 data release, as well as other updated data. This month’s list includes the Connecticut SEOW Prevention Data Portal, The Women and Girls Data Platform, the Connecticut Evictions Map, and some of our data tables in Data by Topic.
Read MoreLast month, over 40 data users joined together to learn from real-life examples of equitable data practice. We heard from four group members who have attended many of the sessions we have run in the last two years. The discussion was rich, here are some of the highlights.
Read MoreToday, the Census Bureau released 2020 undercount and overcount rates by state from the Post-Enumeration Survey (PES). The PES measures the accuracy of the decennial census by surveying a sample of the population to estimate the proportion of people missed or counted erroneously during the census count.
Read MoreAT CTData, a core part of our work centers around building data literacy skills. We incorporate data literacy into almost every aspect of our work and we have seen a few challenges that organizations face when it comes to data either:
Read MoreMay is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. In Connecticut – according to the 2020 U.S. Census – the Asian/Pacific American population grew by 27.1% during the past decade, from 134,091 residents in 2010 to 170,459 in 2020.
Read MoreOn Thursday, April 21st, CTData and staff from its Hartford Data Collaborative welcomed its first class of Hartford Youth Researchers. The six youth—who range in age from 16-21-- will be reviewing, analyzing, and reporting on data related to Youth Behavioral Health alongside staff from the Hartford Data Collaborative. In the April workshop, Hartford Youth Researchers engaged in discussions about data literacy and identifying data for a Hartford Youth Profile that will provide the Hartford Data Collaborative and its city partners with insights on city youth and their needs.
Read MoreLast month, we published our report on Connecticut’s eviction crisis. In this blog post, we dive deeper into the data and explore towns with the highest number of eviction filings in recent months, from January 2021 through February 2022.
Read MoreIn our Equity in Data Community of Practice, which has met almost monthly since June 2020, the topic of equitable and ethical demographic data collection (race and ethnicity, gender, ability, etc.) is one that we talk about often. It is a challenging issue for many of us. Last year, Jasmine Johnson, Program Associate for Evaluation and Learning at The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and co-author of the report More Than Numbers Resource: A Guide Towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, joined us to share the lessons they learned about improving demographic data collection. You can watch the video of the presentation and read more here!
Read MoreAs Connecticut’s State Data Center, we develop many tools and reports to help agencies and data users across Connecticut to understand their community. For many of these tools and reports, we disaggregate our analysis where possible — such as by geography, race/ethnicity, gender/sex, and age. We receive many questions about accessing town-level data for various topics, so we have compiled several of our data tools and reports below.
Read MoreWhen comparing the 5-year estimates of American Community data between 2011-2015 and 2016-2020, CTData has found:
A majority of towns experience a decrease in population
Home values decrease while rent increases
Women continue to earn only 80 cents on the dollar compared to men
Education levels have increased
Working from home is becoming increasingly common
Explore the data, as well as more topics, with this ACS 2020 roundup!
Read MoreThe Connecticut Data Collaborative (CTData), and the Hartford Data Collaborative (managed by staff from CTData), has been awarded an $80,000 grant for a new initiative, Behavioral Health Indicators for City Youth. Through this initiative, CTData will partner with state and city agencies and Hartford youth to develop and analyze data aimed at improving understanding of issues related to youth behavioral health, and lead to changes in youth programs and policies.
Read MoreDo you work with Hartford youth?
The Hartford Data Collaborative is starting a new project on Youth Behavioral Health and is seeking to partner with Youth Researchers (ages 16-24) for this work.
Read MoreOver the past several months, we have explored population changes in Connecticut from 2010 to 2020, touching on topics such as overall changes, diversity, housing, analysis for specific towns, and more. In this short blog post, we explore population changes by race and ethnicity for each of the “Five Connecticuts,” a system developed by the University of Connecticut.
Read MoreConnecticut’s economy has undoubtedly been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, but data shows that we are recovering as 2021 comes to an end as business starts steadily increase. In this post, we explore and analyze Connecticut business registration data from Connecticut Secretary of the State.
Read MoreAs the Census State Data Center, CTData is required to delineate the 2020 PUMA boundaries. An important component of this delineation process is to elicit community feedback from the data users in our state. We began this process in December during our conference session, “PUMAS: What are they and how you can help,” where we laid out the background of what PUMAs are and why this issue matters on our website as well as through an Op-Ed published by the CT Examiner. We also spent time creating options for the 2020 PUMAs so that data users could respond to them at a meeting we held this week. Read on to learn what was decided this week based on community input.
Read MoreAs CTData worked virtually in 2021, we continued to make data accessible, expand the data capacity of organizations, help build a more robust data infrastructure in Connecticut, and provide analysis for the state to make data-informed decisions. This hard work and dedication have given us a lot to celebrate for this past year!
Read MoreThe Equity in Data Community of Practice ended the year on a high note. Our final session on December 21, 2021, was filled with lively discussion, interesting ideas, and data nerds!
We discussed our key takeaways from our previous session, the Do No Harm with Data Viz session of the CTData Conference 2021 and talked about what we’d like to do as a group in 2022.
Read MoreCTData hosts a monthly gathering of Connecticut data users, the Equity in Data Community of Practice, who are supporting one another to identify ways we can practically integrate equitable practices into our data work. This group hosted an engaging presentation by Alice Feng and Jon Schwabish, co-authors of the report, Do No Harm with Data: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization. You can watch the video, read the brief highlights, and access the links that were shared during the session in this post.
Read MoreAs the Census State Data Center, we have the opportunity to learn about all sorts of census data products that are not widely known. For CTData Conference 2021, we wanted to bring some tools that are relevant for life as it is now, during the pandemic. There have been major floods in Connecticut in some unexpected places. And of course the pandemic has brought suffering that has been unequalled for generations. The products we share with you, the Community Resilience Estimates and the Pulse Surveys, give us ways to understand both the risks in our communities and the impact in the state to these challenges. Click to learn more.
Read MoreMany folks only interact with one person or just part of our organization, and people are often surprised to hear about different aspects of our work they had never heard about. We decided that at this year’s conference we would share with you all that we do at CTData. You can watch the video and access the slides below or explore other conference sessions and information at our 2021 conference hub.
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