Name: Social Well-Being Indicator - Access to Social Services
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Description: Assessment of general accessibility of social and health support services required for people to reach an intermediate level of well-being. This component is measured using population standardized valuations of participation in SNAP and WIC programs, number of hospital beds, human services organizations, number of physicians, population with medical insurance, and households without any vehicles.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for access to social service indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Description: Assessment of the availability, accessibility, and consumption of rudimentary elements required to sustain human life. This component is measured using population standardized valuations of median housing values, homes without plumbing or kitchen access, size of homes based on median room number, housing availability, median age of homes, and availability of healthy food options.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for basic needs indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Name: Social Well-Being Indicator - Economic Security
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Description: Assessment of the level to which a county possesses sufficient resources to support at least basic needs, both now and in the foreseeable future. This component is measured using population standardized valuations of federal government expenditures at the county level, local government revenues, gross domestic product for all county industries, economic diversity of employment, median household income, unemployment rate, and youth poverty rate.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for economic security indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Description: Assessment of the educational attainment and educational expenditures in the county. This component is measured using standardized valuations of expenditures per student enrolled in public schools (K-12), population over 25 with at least a high school diploma or equivalent, and school enrollment.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for education indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Description: Assessment of government influence in local areas. This component is measured through the FEMA Community Rating System (CRS) county scores and the time since a county comprehensive plan was adopted.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for governance indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Description: Assessment of physical and mental health of population via proxies for disease burden and general quality of life. This component is measured using standardized valuations of fertility, life expectancy, mortality due to chronic disease, and recreational opportunities.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for health indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Description: Assessment of the safety of both person and property from actions or events that cause damage, harm or impede access to needed resources. This component is measured using population standardized valuations of population density in flood hazard zones, number of severe thunderstorms and tornados, number of tropical storms and hurricanes, property crime rates, and violent crime rates.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for safety indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: Kyle Buck and Maria Dillard – NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Oceans and Human Health Branch; Kate Rose - NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Name: Social Well-Being Indicator - Social Connectedness
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Description: Assessment of a community's ability to exchange resources, engage in activities to build and maintain social cohesion, respond and recover from perturbations. This component is measured using population standardized valuations of voter turnout at national elections, number of religious organizations, number of arts and humanities organizations, amount of money given to charity, lack of telephone service, and community tenure.
Higher scores indicate greater community well-being. The scores are grouped into high, medium, and low classes using a 3-class Natural Jenks scheme. This classification scheme was applied to the scores of all the counties across all years for social connectedness indicator. The analysis provides insight into the individual counties' well-being, comparisons among counties and comparisons across time.
Copyright Text: National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce