U.S. Adult Obesity Rates by County with CDC Surveillance Data

Obesity rate for adults 20+ years old from the US Diabetes Surveillance System, maintained by the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The dataset includes county-level obesity percentages with confidence intervals and geographic identifiers. It was last updated on 2024-06-11.

Use Cases

• Map obesity prevalence using County, Percentage, and INTPTLAT/INTPTLONG columns.
• Analyze temporal trends in obesity rates using the Year and Date columns.
• Join with other county-level datasets using the CountyFIPS column for broader socioeconomic or health studies.
• Assess estimate reliability for specific counties using the Upper.Limit and Lower.Limit columns.

Strengths

• Includes geographic coordinates (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG) for mapping.
• Provides confidence intervals (Upper.Limit, Lower.Limit) for the obesity percentage estimates.
• Sourced from the authoritative CDC US Diabetes Surveillance System.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Division of Diabetes Translation - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Collection Method

Data from US Diabetes Surveillance System; www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-11 16:46:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States, county-level (columns include County, State, Washington Counties, Cities in Pierce County).