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
Life expectancy is 1.12 years lower per ten-point step of the ADI within counties and lower in all 267 metros, and 70.3 percent of the variance of tract life expectancy lies between tracts in the same county, of which 26.7 points are estimation error in the modeled tract estimates.
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- 2Test scores, class and race
Chapter 2.1 in Part II, School
Average achievement in third through eighth grade differs by 2.54 grade levels between the 5th and 95th percentile of counties, and it rises with county income, with a positive slope in 45 of 45 states.
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- 3Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 5.1 in Part V, Health and the body
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the share of adults who saw a dentist in the past year was 24.4 points lower than in the least deprived tenth, and the share who had a routine checkup was 3.6 points higher.
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- 4Race, income and mobility
Chapter 3.3 in Part III, The climb
White children from low-income families 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, and across the 1,265 counties with life expectancy estimates for both groups, weighted by population, non-Hispanic white life expectancy exceeds non-Hispanic Black by 4.4 years.
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