Data is a crucial tool used to advance health equity. Data helps uncover disparities in the experience of health outcomes and the factors that lead to poor health. Learn more about the secondary data sources that CCRP uses by exploring the resources below.
Resource Title & Link | Resource Type | Resource Description |
United States Census Bureau Database | Webpage/Database | The census database aims to count every person living in the United States and collect various demographic, social, and economic data. The database includes a wide range of information, such as population counts, demographic characteristics, housing statistics, and more. This data is crucial for government decision-making, resource allocation, and understanding the changing dynamics of the population over time |
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHR&R) | Webpage/Database | County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) is a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The CHR&R program provides data, evidence, guidance, and examples to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health and support leaders in growing community power to improve health equity. The Rankings are unique in their ability to measure the health of nearly every county in all 50 states, and are complemented by guidance, tools, and resources designed to accelerate community learning and action |
COVID-19 Vaccination Data | Webpage/Database | The database provides vaccination data in California. |
CDE DataQuest | Webpage/Database | DataQuest provides meaningful data and statistics about California's K-12 public educational system that supports a wide variety of informational, research, and policy needs. |
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) | Webpage/Database | The HRSA Data Warehouse website provides maps, data, reports, and dashboards to the public about HRSA’s health care programs. The data integrates with external sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, providing information about HRSA’s grants, loan and scholarship programs, health centers, and other public health programs and services |
Kidsdata.org | Webpage/Database | Kidsdata.org, a program of Population Reference Bureau (PRB), promotes the health and well being of children in California by providing an easy-to-use resource that offers high quality, wide ranging, local data to those who work on behalf of children. The database allows users to easily find, customize, and use data on more than 1,000 measures of children's health and well being. |
Employment Development Department (EDD) Data Library | Webpage/Database | The EDD Data Library provides access to view and download data and information related to California industries, occupations, employment projections, wages, and labor force. The data can be used to better understand California’s economy, to make informed labor market decisions, as a tool to direct efforts to promote the state’s overall economic health, support workforce development and much more. |
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Data | Webpage/Database | SAMHSA collects data through multiple sources and surveys and provides access to public-use data files and documentation to support a better understanding of mental illness and substance use disorders in America. |
CalSCHLS Data Dashboard | Webpage/Database | Access state, county, and district-level CalSCHLS results for elementary and secondary schools. Data are publicly released each December following the academic year that the surveys were administered (e.g. 2022-23 data will be released in December 2023). |
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data Tools | Webpage/Database | The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner. BEA is an agency of the Department of Commerce. |
Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Data & Statistics | Webpage/Database | DHCS is the backbone of California’s health care safety net, helping millions of low-income and disabled Californians each and every day. The mission of DHCS is to provide Californians with access to affordable, integrated, high-quality health care, including medical, dental, mental health, substance use treatment services and long-term care. |
Index of Relative Rurality (IRR) | Webpage/Database | The Index of Relative Rurality (IRR) is a continuous, threshold-free, and unit-free measure of rurality. The IRR has three major advantages over typology-based rurality measures. (1) It is spatially flexible in that it can be designed for any spatial units; (2) it is a relative measure and thus embeds rurality in the broader system of settlements; (3) it is analytically more easily handled than threshold-based typologies. |
CDPH California Community Burden of Disease Engine | Webpage/Database | The California Community Burden of Disease and Cost Engine (CCB) is a tool to explore data on burden of disease in multiple levels of geographic granularity in order to answer and generate questions, both simple and complex, about the intersection between health disparities and place. This tool is designed for use by CDPH programs, local health departments, and community partners for epidemiologic analysis and to provide systematic scientific insight to inform public health planning, evaluation and action. |
CalEnviroScreen 4.0 | Webpage/Database | CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. |
Climate Change and Health Vulnerability Indicators | Webpage/Database | CCHVIz is the interactive data visualization platform for the Climate Change & Health Vulnerability Indicators for California (CCHVIs). It is produced by the Climate Change and Health Equity Section -- CalBRACE Project, part of the California Department of Public Health. |
Household Pulse Survey (NCHS/Census Bureau) | Webpage/Database | Household Pulse Survey is 20-minute online survey, which was designed to complement the ability of the federal statistical system to rapidly respond and provide relevant information about the impact of COVID-19 in the United States. Data collection began on April 23, 2020 and currently follows a two-weeks on, two-weeks off collection and dissemination approach. |
Social Vulnerability Index | Webpage/Database | Social vulnerability refers to the potential negative effects on communities caused by external stresses on human health. Such stresses include natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. . The CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (CDC/ATSDR SVI) uses 16 U.S. census variables to help local officials identify communities that may need support before, during, or after disasters. |
Health Equity: Data and Statistics (Berkeley Library) | Webpage/Database | Berkeley Library Data and Statistics compiles databases on Climate Change and Health Vulnerability Indicators Vosualization, California Department of Education, Health Research and Statistics Unit, Office of Health Equity, LGBTData, Race Counts. |