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Neighborhood Effects Active Living Resources

Creator:: Reference USA, City of Detroit, ESRI, Data Driven Detroit, and Veinot, Tiffany C.
Description:: Active living resources include spaces and organizations that facilitate physical activity, including 1) park land, 2) recreation areas (including parks, golf courses, amusement parks, beaches and other recreational landmarks); and 3) recreation centers (including gyms, dancing instruction, martial arts instruction, bowling centers, yoga instruction, sports clubs, fitness programs, golf course, pilates instruction, personal trainers, swimming pools, skating rinks, etc.) Coverage for all data: 10-county Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor Combined Statistical Area.
Keyword:: Recreation Areas, Park Land, Census tract level, Metropolitan Detroit, Spatial Measures, Recreation Centers, and Michigan
Discipline:: Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and Other

Creator:: Okullo, Dolorence, Yan, Xiang (Jacob), Data Driven Detroit, Veinot, Tiffany C., Gomez-Lopez, Iris N., and Goodspeed, Robert
Description:: The food environment is: 1) The physical presence of food that affects a person’s diet; 2) A person’s proximity to food store locations; 3) The distribution of food stores, food service, and any physical entity by which food may be obtained; or 4) A connected system that allows access to food. (Source: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/healthtopics/healthyfood/general.htm) Data included here concern: 1) Food access; and 2) Liquor access. Spatial Coverage for most data: 10-county Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor Combined Statistical Area, Michigan, USA. See exception for grocery store data below.
Keyword:: Food Deserts, Census tract level, Full-Line Grocery Stores, Modified Retail Food Environment Index (MRFEI), Farmer’s Markets, Spatial Measures, and Fast Food Establishments
Discipline:: Social Sciences, Health Sciences, and Other

Creator:: Okullo, Dolorence, Gomez-Lopez, Iris N., Goodspeed, Robert, Reddy, Shruthi, Veinot, Tiffany C, Clarke, Phillipa J., and Data Driven Detroit
Description:: The information and education environment refers to: 1) the presence of information infrastructures such as broadband Internet access and public libraries in a location; 2) a person’s proximity to information infrastructures and sources; 3) the distribution of information infrastructures, sources and in a specific location; and 4) exposure to specific messages (information content) within a specific location. Coverage for all data: 10-county Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor Combined Statistical Area.
Keyword:: Residential Broadband Data Adoption Rates, Census tract level, Broadband Internet Access and Speed, Colleges and Universities, Public Libraries, Spatial Measures, and Schools
Discipline:: Science, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences

Creator:: Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, United States Postal Service, Wayne County Register of Deeds, US Census, Yu, Deehan, Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), Veinot, Tiffany, RealtyTRAC, National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), Okullo, Dolorence, Wayne County Treasurer, Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA), and Data Driven Detroit
Description:: This dataset includes census tract-level data concerning housing in Metropolitan Detroit. The data includes: 1) Total housing units and total mortgages in the tract; 2) Land use; 3) Real estate information (foreclosures, sales transactions, and home values); 4) Vacant housing; 5) Housing age and available facilities; 6) Housing condition; and 7) Spatial measures of subsidized housing in the tract. Data coverage should say 2006 to 2015.
Keyword:: Housing Conditions, Community Health, Subsidized Housing Locations, Availability of Kitchen and Plumbing Facilities, Vacant Properties, Census tract level, Age of Housing, Spatial Measures, Home Sale Transactions, Land Use by Category, Housing Units and Ownership, Housing Values, and Foreclosed Properties
Discipline:: Social Sciences and Health Sciences