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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Reports on Historic Pittsburgh | HTML | Original scanned documents | Open resource |
| Data Dictionary for Community Facilities, 1974 | data-dictionary-community-facilities.pdf | Open resource | |
| Data Dictionary for Building Permits, 1972 | data-dictionary-for-building-permits-1972.pdf | Open resource | |
| Data Preparation Guide | 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. | Open resource | |
| Arrests for Major Crimes, 1972 | CSV | 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. | Open resource |
| Data Dictionary for Persons Receiving Public Assistance, 1972 | data-dictionary-for-public-assistance-1972.pdf | Open resource | |
| Community Facilities, 1974 | CSV | Neighborhood-level dataset transcribed from the Community Profiles reports that captures community facilities located in and serving Pittsburgh neighborhoods. | Open resource |
| Data Dictionary for Arrests for Major Crime Dataset | data-dictionary-arrests-for-major-crimes.pdf | Open resource | |
| Persons Receiving Public Assistance, 1972 | CSV | 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.” | Open resource |
| Building Permits Issued, 1972 | CSV | 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. | Open resource |