By: Janet Harrah
This month, we resume our series of blog posts highlighting data results from the 2012 Economic Census for the Cincinnati MSA. To date, we have summarized the trends in construction, manufacturing, and commodity flows. This post highlights the accommodation and food services sectors (in other words, what most of us refer to as hotels and restaurants).
By: Jennifer Chubinski
Readers interested in health should check out the Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s health value dashboard available here.
The institute has gone to great lengths to create a dashboard of health value. This well-conceived and well-researched set of metrics helps provide a North Star to everyone working to improve the health of Ohioans. A great number of diverse and engaged stakeholders from across the state came together to design this dashboard. We could argue over the metrics. Are they the right ones? Do they capture what we want to improve in health value? As someone who wakes up every morning thinking about health data, I can state confidently that they are a strong collection of health measurements that meet the guidelines the advisory group established (see page 17 of the dashboard), most notably that the data are of high quality, consistently available and easy for the general public to understand.
By: John Besl
What’s the relative size of the middle class in Cincinnati, and how does it compare to other large places across the country? A recent study from Brookings employs the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS) to examine the income distribution of households nationwide and in all places with populations of at least 65,000. Going by the national income distribution, many cities retain a sizable middle class, but Cincinnati is not one of them. Among 72 large cities, those with 100,000 households or more, Cincinnati ranked 63rd in the share of households classified as middle class.
By: Janet Harrah
A recent article in Career Outlook discussed occupations with big differences in high- and low-earning workers. For example, nationally judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates had one of the biggest wage differences across all occupations ranging from $31,480 at the 10th percentile wage to $178,920 at the 90th percentile wage, a difference of $147,440.[1] As noted in the article, “job tasks for these workers vary by levels of authority, from handling simple infractions or disputes to presiding over complex legal cases on appeal, which may contribute to wage differences.” Other factors affecting wages for occupations include worker qualifications, industry, experience and prior success, job tasks, and job location.
This article presents 2014 data on those occupations in the Cincinnati metro, which have the narrowest and widest wage differential between the 10th and 90th percentile. Across all occupations the mean annual earnings was $46,240. The wage for the 90th percentile was $84,710 and the wage for the 10th percentile was $18,360, a difference of $66,350.
By: Jennifer Chubinski
The public health departments and healthcare systems in our region are collecting data and community feedback about what needs to be done to improve our region’s health. Not only are they charged with providing top-notch care for people who visit their facilities, but because of new IRS regulations, each nonprofit healthcare system now must identify the community’s health needs, make a plan to improve the health of the general population, and share those plans with the public (attaching their report to their 990 tax form). Feedback from the general public is a critical and required part of each of these plans.
By: Janet Harrah
This month’s post examines the changing demographics of the region’s foreign-born population. A recent Census Bureau blog post noted that in recent years, China has replaced Mexico as the top sending country for immigrants to the United States. The data show the top sending region for immigrants residing in the Cincinnati MSA is Asia as well.
In 2013, the Cincinnati MSA had a foreign-born population of approximately 93,700. Of those, 42 percent arrived from Asia, followed by Latin America (24 percent), and Europe (17 percent).
Let's take a look at Cincinnati's foreign-born population broken down by their region of origin:
By: John Besl
In my last blog entry, I wrote about a measure of neighborhood residential mobility that’s derived from the American Community Survey. Since the measure is based on responses from a small sample of the population, there’s some degree of uncertainty associated with the tract-level estimates. Besides that limitation, the ACS-based mobility measure represents a short time frame, a single year. In this post, I take a longer view – 10 years – and develop a synthetic estimate of child migration derived from the last two decennial census enumerations. The new measure relies on the ironclad assurance that children who were counted in the 2000 Census will be 10 years older when enumerated in the 2010 Census. We would expect that a residentially stable community (i.e., where migration is low) would see little change between the 2000 Census count of children in the preschool age range of 0 to 4 and the 2010 Census count at ages 10 to 14.
By: Janet Harrah
This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting data results from the 2012 Economic Census for the Cincinnati MSA. The Economic Census is the U.S. Government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy. It is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in years ending in 2 and 7.
Last month we discussed Cincinnati’s commodity flow data. This month we are focusing on the construction sector. Unlike other industry sectors, data are not reported for counties and metropolitan areas. This post presents data for the states of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The information on the construction industry includes data for residential and non-residential buildings; heavy and civil engineering construction; and specialty trade contractors.
By: Jennifer Chubinski, in collaboration with Susan Sprigg, a public health consultant to Interact for Health
What are the County Health Rankings?
The County Health Rankings are part of an annual report that ranks the health of each county in the country. Every year the release of the rankings creates a tremendous amount of media interest about which counties are doing better or worse. When I am out in the community, I hear about a lot of groups using the rankings to measure progress on their work. While I am thrilled at the use of high quality data, I often have to caution community groups about tracking their progress based on changes in their year-to-year ranking. Please continue reading to understand why.
