Drexel UHC Data Portal

UHC Data Portal Updates: March 2024  

UHC, April 5, 2024

The UHC Research and Data Core is working hard to add more data to the repository. They’ll update the portal quickly to make sure all the information is accurate. Data Team tries to update all the available data as much as possible. 

Data Portal Update 

UHC Data Team has introduced a new tab within its data portal system, named “Products” that contains Tools and Dashboards prepared by members of the UHC team. These tools often feature user-friendly interfaces, data manipulation capabilities, and interactive visualizations that enable users to interact with datasets, explore other projects, and derive insights to inform decision-making processes. Some of these dashboards contain data that can be downloaded for public use. The goal of these tools is to empower users with the ability to interactively engage with data, uncover patterns or relationships, and ultimately make informed decisions based on their findings. 

If your project has created any Tools or Dashboards, please use submit the information to http://tinyurl.com/uhcdatatoolform. 

Reach out to UHCdata@drexel.edu with any specific requests.  

UHC Data Portal Updates: Feb 2024  

UHC, March 5, 2024

The UHC Research and Data Core is actively working to expand which data from the repository are available. To ensure the accuracy of all data, the UHC Research and Data Core will update the portal as soon as possible. All available data will be updated as much as possible by the UHC Research and Data Core.   

Spatial Social Polarization Measures Tool 

Lisa Frueh, a PhD student in Environmental and Occupational Health, introduced their interactive online site for exploring Spatial Social Polarization Measures at the UHC on last fall’s GIS Day. They have continued to improve the tool with some help from Ran Li. We have included information about this site on a web page with information on various interactive tools and applications developed by UHC affiliates. Lisa began this work as a 2022-2023 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Antiracism (IDEA) fellow. We know that segregation is detrimental to physical and mental health, but methods to operationalize segregation can be complex. The goal of the IDEA fellowship project was to generate a living repository with available measures of segregation along with instructions, code, and examples. 

Reach out to UHCdata@drexel.edu with any specific requests.  

UHC Data Portal Updates: Jan 2024 

UHC, February 6, 2024

UHC Research and Data Core is working to expand the types of data available from its repository. Reach out to UHCdata@drexel.edu with any specific requests. To ensure the accuracy of all data, the UHC Research and Data Core will update it as soon as possible. 

New Documentation Uploaded 

• American Community survey Population 2015-2019 documentation updated.  

The American Community Survey (ACS) administered by the US Census Bureau is a survey of randomly selected household across the US. The survey contains information about social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. The UHC has extracted population counts by sex, age, and race/ethnicity from the ACS data for the 5-year aggregate period of 2015-2019. 

You will find more information about ACS in this documentation recently uploaded to the UHC Data Portal. 

New Data Available 

The American Community Survey (ACS) administered by the US Census Bureau is a survey of randomly selected household across the US. The survey contains information about social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. Three datasets derived from the ACS2017-2021 5-year aggregated data are now available. 

• American Community Survey Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by ZCTA 2020 boundaries 

• The UHC has calculated numerous measures of social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. These measures summarized for the Zip Code Tabulation Areas are included in this file. 

• American Community Survey Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by Tract 2020 boundaries 

• The UHC has calculated numerous measures of social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. These measures summarized for the Tracts are included in this file.  

• American Community Survey Population Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by Tract 2020 boundaries 

• The UHC has extracted population counts by sex, age, and race/ethnicity from the ACS data. These are included in this file. 

Remember, some of the UHC data has restricted access. Restricted data is not uploaded on the portal and requires signing a Data Use Agreement. 

As an example, The UHC has gentrification from 1990 to 2000 and 2000 to 2010 that can be requested after completing a data use agreement. Click here to access the DUA. More data will be added as it becomes available.