Author Archive for ljridley

Quiz: Indicators of Child Well-Being, United States

Published by ljridley on January 18, 2017 in Quizzes.

Indicators of Child Well-Being

Health ABC data available through NIA website

Published by ljridley on January 17, 2017 in Aging and Data & Methods.

NIA’s Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study is now available on NIA’s website for qualified researchers.

The Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study began in 1997 and collected data for 17 years on a cohort of older black and white adults living in Memphis and Pittsburgh. Participants were aged 70-79 at baseline…

…[It] is an interdisciplinary study focused on risk factors for functional decline in healthy older people. With a particular focus on change in body composition with age, the study was designed to address differences in onset of functional limitation, disability, and longevity between older men and women, as well as between blacks and whites.

Read more on the Inside NIA blog.

Mapping gun violence

Published by ljridley on January 17, 2017 in Poverty & Inequality, Segregation/Neighborhoods and Socioeconomic & Spatial Mobility/Inequality.

The Guardian has some interesting maps showing where gun violence is concentrated, by city and neighborhood.

Even within those cities, violence is further concentrated in the tiny neighborhood areas that saw two or more gun homicide incidents in a single year.

Four and a half million Americans live in areas of these cities with the highest numbers of gun homicide, which are marked by intense poverty, low levels of education, and racial segregation. Geographically, these neighborhood areas are small: a total of about 1,200 neighborhood census tracts, which, laid side by side, would fit into an area just 42 miles wide by 42 miles long.

H/T Flowing Data

New Orleans Bail System

Published by ljridley on January 17, 2017 in Crime/Prisoners.

The Vera Institute of Justice released a report finding that New Orleans collected $4.5 million in the form of bail, fines and fees, another $4.7 million was paid to for-profit bail bond agents and in 2015, the city spent $6.4 million to jail those who could not afford the bail, fines and fees.

Last week the New Orleans city council voted unanimously to end bail requirements for most nonviolent city crimes. However, it won’t do much to reduce the portion of the jail population who could not afford bail, fees and fines (about 550 people) because most of them have been charged with felonies and excluded misdemeanors or state crimes.

H/T FiveThirtyEight

History of Human Development in 5 Charts

Published by ljridley on January 4, 2017 in Population Dynamics.

Our World In Data put together 5 charts which show how global living conditions have changed over the last two centuries. The topics include poverty, literacy, health, freedom, fertility, and education.

H/T Urban Demographics

Quiz: Television Popularity

Published by ljridley on January 3, 2017 in Quizzes.

Television Popularity

Quiz: Pet statistics

Published by ljridley on November 21, 2016 in Quizzes.

Pets include: birds, cats, dogs, horses, fresh & saltwater fish, reptiles, and “small animals”

Pet Statistics

Election day quiz!

Published by ljridley on November 7, 2016 in Quizzes.

Election Quiz

What Immigration Means to the U.S. Workforce

Published by ljridley on November 1, 2016 in Demographic Trends.

Ben Casselman writes in FiveThirtyEight about the ways immigrants help to keep the U.S. population young and keeps the labor force participation at a relatively high rate: Immigrants Are Keeping America Young — And the Economy Growing

Quiz: Happy Halloween!

Published by ljridley on October 31, 2016 in Quizzes.

Happy Halloween!