Allegheny County Obesity Rates

Description

Obesity rates for each Census Tract in Allegheny County were produced for the study “Developing small-area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States." The data is not explicitly based on population surveys or data collection conducted in Allegheny County, but rather estimated using statistical modeling techniques. In this technique, researchers applied the obesity rate of a demographically similar census tract to one in Allegheny County to compute an obesity rate.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide https://wiki.tessercat.net/wiki/DASH_Data_Guide#Obesity_Rates
8 Data for all 2010 Census Tracts in Pennsylvania https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/b049da40-910a-4b9d-9438-ff584e432bb1/resource/9e6a2b51-90ca-47f8-b2f2-5ea275bd2f53/download/data-obesetractgamephitaugust082013.csv
8 Data for all 2010 Census Tracts in Allegheny County Pennsylvania https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/b049da40-910a-4b9d-9438-ff584e432bb1/resource/fce248f0-8697-4d2a-bbe0-2da826776bfa/download/obesity-ac-2006-2010censustracts.csv
57 Data in ESRI Shapefile Format https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/b049da40-910a-4b9d-9438-ff584e432bb1/resource/d90c9929-9b9e-49eb-b2cb-0460b7dc73e8/download/obesityrates.zip

Tags

  • social-determinants-of-health
  • obesity
  • achd-dash

Topics

  • Local Government

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