Chicago Community Area Life Expectancy, 1990-2010

Life expectancy and confidence intervals for each of Chicago's community areas for the years 1990, 2000, and 2010. The dataset is published by data.cityofchicago.org and was last updated on the platform in February 2022. It is described as historical only, with more recent data available from the Chicago Health Atlas.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in life expectancy over time using 1990 Life Expectancy, 2000 Life Expectancy, and 2010 Life Expectancy columns.
• Mapping health disparities across Chicago neighborhoods using Community Area and life expectancy columns.
• Assessing statistical confidence in life expectancy estimates for specific years using the Lower 95% CI and Upper 95% CI columns.
• Comparing health outcomes between different community areas using Community Area Number and the corresponding life expectancy values.

Strengths

• Provides data for three distinct time points (1990, 2000, 2010) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes confidence intervals (Lower 95% CI, Upper 95% CI) for each estimate, allowing for uncertainty assessment.
• Covers all Chicago community areas, enabling granular geographic analysis.

Limitations

• Data is historical only, with the last recorded year being 2010; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Time Range

1990, 2000, 2010

Freshness

Last updated 2022-02-03 23:29:03

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA (by community area)