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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"American community survey"”.
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Gentrification and Income Segregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas
… this study public data from the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey and the Washington County Assessor's office has been used to measure economic gentrification in Fayetteville, Arkansas using an index based on property values and median rent prices and how much they have changed between …
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The Imperfect Question of Stadium Development: A Typology of Contemporary Development and Strategies for a Sustainable Future
… space, and parking. Using OpenStreetMap data and American Community Survey estimates, this project uses GIS analysis to develop a typology of contemporary NFL stadium developments. Using illustrative case studies informed by this analysis, site visits, and pre-existing literature, the thesis …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… economies. Using various years of data from the American Community Survey and the County Business Patterns survey, I show that the agglomeration of economic activities reduces the volatility of hours worked. Drawing on Krugman's model, I argue that this implies that labor pooling contributes to …
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DECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY-BASED SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY: INTERSECTIONAL INJUSTICE, STRUCTURAL ABLEISM, AND STATE POLICY CONTEXTS
… primarily on over a decade of data from the American Community Survey, this dissertation cuts across topics related to disability, inequality, and health policy, ultimately providing new insights into how structural ableism shapes disparities in Supplemental Poverty and unemployment between …
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Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime
… first two chapters are conducted using data from American Community Survey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting database. The third chapter focuses on the relationship between ownership concentration and rental housing market outcomes. This analysis employs panel data …
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Food deserts, crime, and neighborhood context: an examination of the impact of food insecurity on violent crime in Little Rock
… gathered by the Little Rock Police Department, American Community Survey, and city business license records are used to test neighborhood-level relationships across Little Rock, Arkansas’ 155 Census block groups. Pearson’s Correlation is used at the bivariate level and negative binomial …
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Understanding Public Library Services and Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework
… available data from the 2015 Public Libraries Survey and 2015 American Community Survey to a structural equation model based on a theory of action for public libraries relating operating revenue to latent factors measuring service availability and library use within the context of matched …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… facilities in Cobb County participated in the survey. First, the accessibility of providers and limited hours of operations compared to the number of uninsured residents in Cobb County is very small. This means an excessive number of patients are forced to visit the emergency room departments, …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
… Business Patterns, Rural Urban Continuum Codes, American Community Survey, and authorized SNAP retailer data. The spatial distance between grocery stores and the number of dollar stores at various radii were calculated. Following the computation of the number of dollar stores surrounding grocery …
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
… tests to data obtained from the crime logs and American Community Survey data of a medium-sized city in the Southeastern U.S. Specifically, this study examines (in)equality in the structural covariates of gun crimes when these offenses are disaggregated by gang-involved gun crime versus …
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Latino immigrants in the United States. Why the suburbs? Why the Round Lake area? A case study.
… has increased dramatically, according to the American Community Survey estimates. Round Lake Beach ranks fourth in the size of its Latino population (49.5 percent) and first in Latino population growth (75.6 percent), between 2000 and 2008 (ACS) among the municipalities in the Chicago …
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Health care in the United States: How the determinants of health insurance status differ across regions
… across all fifty United States from the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS), this research explores differences in the incidence and predictors of health insurance status across region (i.e. West, Midwest, South, and Northeast) for individuals age 18 and older. The data suggests that: 1) …
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Investigating Health Inequality in Primary Care Spatial Accessibility Among Races and Ethnicities in King County Using a Geospatial Approach
… decay concept within a certain catchment, 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, and primary care physician data to assess the variation of spatial accessibility among races/ethnicities to primary care in King County, Washington. We observed regional differences for spatial …
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Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital
… inequality, and poverty. Drawing on 2015 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) data, this research study creates a tool for measuring the nonprofit and private organizational and physical resource environment of communities at the county-level by aggregating establishment counts …
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Will millennials save the planet? : generational trends in vehicle ownership & use
… from prior generations are prevalent in the American media. One claim often repeated is that Millennials, happy to rely on public transit or ride-hailing, will not purchase personal vehicles. This claim has the potential to both upset the economy and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) …
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Connections Between Present-Day Water Access and Historical Redlining
… country and US Census data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey were combined to interpolate the modern-day plumbing access for historic neighborhoods (n=8871 communities). Analysis via binomial logistic regression demonstrated that nationally, redlined communities (HOLC Grade "D") are …
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Who Influences Your Outcomes? The Effect of Culture and Ethnic Origin, Neighborhood and Peers on Personal Income: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of New York City
… Specifically, I consider how a person’s ethnic community, age reference group, occupational and industry group peers, and residential area neighbors affect his total income. I introduce a novel model of multiple social networks and discuss various identification implications. I apply the model …
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Community capitals, community attachment, and migration in the Iowa small towns
… This study will use a modified version of the community capitals framework to better understand what community factors affect in- and out-migration in Iowa small towns. The study uses data from a survey of 99 small Iowa communities combined with information from the American Community Survey in …
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Devaluation and Solvability: The Quest for Factors Affecting Violent Crime Clearance
… its focus on homicides and arrests, neglect of community characteristics, and the effect victim decisions have on crime clearance. This study, therefore, used data from the 2017-2022 National Incident-Based Reporting System data, 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics …
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