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The Social and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America project documents the social and health improvements and challenges occurring in the nation’s 100 largest cities and their suburbs. Using data from the Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other sources, the project has created online profiles of each city/suburb to give a statistical portrait of its health, socioeconomic and demographic status and dynamics from 1990 to 2000. These city/suburban profiles include statistics on maternal and infant health indicators, including low birth weight, infant mortality, teen births and prenatal care, race/ethnicity, poverty, education, crime, welfare, and other health and social indicators. Each profile also shows how a city or suburb ranks on a unique child well-being and deprivation index. The child well-being index is a composite of the following indicators: percent of families headed by single mothers; child poverty rate; percent of births to teen mothers; percent of low birth weight babies; and the infant mortality rate. The deprivation index is a composite of the following indicators: the poverty rate; per capita income; the percent of population age 5 and older speaking a foreign language at home and reporting that they speak English “not well” or “not at all”; the unemployment rate; the percent of population 25 and older with no high school diploma; and the violent crime rate per 100,000 population. |
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