A Community Profile of Pittsburgh Neighborhoods, 1974

Description

These data include four historical datasets that were transcribed from the Community Profiles of Pittsburgh reports, which were published in 1974. The Community Profiles were prepared for 71 Pittsburgh neighborhoods by the City of Pittsburgh's Department of City Planning and include demographic information, housing, socio-economic conditions, and community facilities. The four datasets included here are data on building permits issued in 1972, arrests for major crimes in 1972, public assistance given in 1972, and community facilities serving and located in Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 data-dictionary-community-facilities.pdf https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/1f525ec0-39f6-4f33-a964-ffe1c14001d7/download/data-dictionary-community-facilities.pdf
33 data-dictionary-for-public-assistance-1972.pdf https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/a4a5224a-855b-483b-8fc3-fe89e3e9d37d/download/data-dictionary-for-public-assistance-1972.pdf
8 Neighborhood-level data on permits issued in 1972. Data is from the Bureau of Building Inspection and includes number of permits issued and estimated construction costs. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/fab1fade-dec7-40eb-b4bf-737c0b3cecb2/download/building-permits-issued-in-1972.csv
8 Neighborhood-level arrest data published in the Community Profiles and sourced from the City of Pittsburgh Police Department's Annual Report of Major Crimes. "Major crimes" include murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and larceny. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/8ce92a4b-fa62-45c3-8cee-cc58fefede75/download/arrests-for-major-crimes-1972.csv
33 data-dictionary-arrests-for-major-crimes.pdf https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/d0312436-6446-49f3-8046-0dddab096ab1/download/data-dictionary-arrests-for-major-crimes.pdf
8 This dataset included in the Community Profiles captures number of individuals receiving public assistance from Allegheny County. The source for this information is the Allegheny County Department of Public Welfare’s Board of Public Assistance, with the numbers dated March 2, 1973. The “assistance types” are undefined in the Community Profiles and include: “old age,” “blind,” “aid to dependent children,” “general,” and “aid to disabled.” https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/fa050f6f-66d9-40db-a415-abad22c51125/download/persons-receiving-public-assistance-1972.csv
8 Neighborhood-level dataset transcribed from the Community Profiles reports that captures community facilities located in and serving Pittsburgh neighborhoods. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/cba7c9e6-a1b8-4d9f-804f-0e32484a1e61/download/community-facilities-1972.csv
33 This document was developed to guide student assistants' preparation of archival data in the Community Profiles reports to be access through the WPRDC. This guide was used in fall 2017. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/4ac8f887-c2cc-4867-b88f-c97627c5670c/download/community-profiles-data-preparation-guide.pdf
21 Original scanned documents http://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/historic-pittsburgh-book-collection?islandora_solr_search_navigation=0&f%5b0%5d=dc.title%3A%22community%20profile%20of%20*%22
33 data-dictionary-for-building-permits-1972.pdf https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/bce15079-618a-4bf3-badf-8aa372c3aea2/resource/46e4f9b2-250c-4380-b2d6-ad7981e897cc/download/data-dictionary-for-building-permits-1972.pdf

Tags

  • archives
  • recreation
  • history
  • neighborhood-indicators
  • arrests
  • crimes
  • community-facilities
  • public-assistance
  • parks
  • historic-pittsburgh
  • building-permits

Topics

  • Local Government

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