The topography of poverty in the United States: a spatial analysis using county-level data from the Community Health Status Indicators project.

摘要: Socioeconomic and health-related data at the county level are now available through Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) database. These useful for assessing health of communities regions. Users CHSI can access online reports an mapping application visualizing patterns in various community-related measures. It also is possible to download these conduct local analyses. This paper describes a spatial analysis poverty United States 2000. Spatial statistical techniques geographic information system were used quantify significant patterns, such as concentrated rates outliers. The revealed stark poverty. A distinctive north-south demarcation low versus high concentrations was found, along with isolated pockets within areas which predominant opposite. pattern be described following continental divide. insights explicating underlying processes involved forming that result wealth analytic broadly applicable socioeconomic provide important about structure datasets, choosing appropriate methods.