Reading path
The same slope in every place
4 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 1Gradients, slopes and variance
Chapter 10.1 in Part X, How the estimates are made
For deaths in 2010 to 2015, tract life expectancy is 1.12 years lower per ten-point step of the ADI within counties, and lower in more deprived tracts in all 267 metros.
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- 2Test scores, class and race
Chapter 3.1 in Part III, School
Average achievement in third through eighth grade, 2009 to 2019, differs by 2.54 grade levels between the 5th and 95th percentile of counties and rises with county income in 45 of 45 states.
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- 3Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 7.1 in Part VII, Health and care
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the modeled 2022 share of adults with a past-year dental visit was 24.4 points below the least deprived tenth, and the routine-checkup share 3.6 points above.
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- 4Race, income and mobility
Chapter 4.3 in Part IV, Becoming an adult
White children from low-income families born in 1978 to 1983 reached a higher adult income rank than Black children raised in the same tract in 92.5% of the 30,997 tracts where both are estimated.
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