Historical Public Health Indicators for Chicago Community Areas

Twenty-seven distinct public health indicators, including mortality rates, infectious disease incidence, and economic status measures, are provided for Chicago's community areas. The dataset is historical only, with no corresponding data for recent periods, and was published by the City of Chicago via its open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between Per Capita Income and health outcomes like Infant Mortality Rate or Low Birth Weight across Community Areas.
• Model the spatial relationship between economic indicators like Unemployment and Below Poverty Level and disease rates such as Tuberculosis or Diabetes-related mortality.
• Identify communities with high incidence of Childhood Lead Poisoning and correlate with housing quality metrics like Crowded Housing.
• Compare gender-specific disease rates, such as Prostate Cancer in Males versus Breast cancer in females, across different Community Area Name locations.
• Investigate temporal patterns in Teen Birth Rate and its potential association with factors like No High School Diploma.

Strengths

• Contains 27 distinct public health indicators per community area.
• Covers multiple health domains: natality, mortality, infectious disease, lead poisoning, and economic status.

Limitations

• Dataset is explicitly historical with no recent data available, limiting analysis to past trends.
• Sample size (number of rows/community areas) and temporal coverage (specific years) are unknown.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Freshness

Last updated on the platform in February 2022, but data itself is historical.

Geography

Chicago community areas