The Community Explorer: Bringing Populations' Diversity into Policy Discussions, One County at a Time

Claude Lopez, Hyeongyul Roh and Maggie Switek ()
Additional contact information
Hyeongyul Roh: Milken Institute
Maggie Switek: Milken Institute

No 190, IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: diversity; communities; development; economic well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J08 J10 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2022-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-cmp, nep-lab and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/pp190.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izapps:pp190

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().