The community explorer: Bringing populations' diversity into policy discussions, one county at a time

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The Community Explorer provides new insights and data on the characteristics and diversity of the US population. Using machine learning methods, it synthesizes the information of 751 variables across 3,142 counties from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey into 17 communities. Each one of these communities has a distinctive profile that combines demographic, socio-economic, and cultural behavioral determinants while not being geographically bounded. We encourage policy makers and researchers to make use of the results of our analysis. The Community Explorer dashboard provides the location of these profiles, allowing for targeted deployment of community interventions and, more broadly, increasing the understanding of socioeconomic gaps withing the US.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 190

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Labor Economics Policies ; Demographic Economics: General ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
• Subject: diversity ; communities ; development ; economic well-being

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lopez, Claude ; Roh, Hyeongyul ; Switek, Maggie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273699
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET