Reading path
Methods first
5 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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- 2What the deprivation index measures
Chapter 1.1 in Part I, Rankings and scale
The Area Deprivation Index orders 75,717 census tracts almost in reverse order of median home value, with a rank correlation of −0.988, and the home value term alone accounts for 74.3% of the variance of the score its formula produces.
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- 3What a county average leaves out
Chapter 1.2 in Part I, Rankings and scale
A county's percentile on a deprivation index follows the average of its tracts' percentiles, with a correlation of 0.96, yet 32.7% of residents live in a tract more than 25 percentile points from their county's percentile.
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- 4Families of places
Chapter 10.2 in Part X, How the estimates are made
Among 4 families of census tracts sorted on deprivation measures alone, life expectancy for deaths in 2010 to 2015 runs from 74.7 years in the high-poverty family to 81.7 years in the high-income family.
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- 5Place and the length of a life
Chapter 8.4 in Part VIII, Early death
Life expectancy at birth was 82.3 years in the least deprived tenth of census tracts and 74.0 years in the most deprived, for deaths recorded in 2010 to 2015.
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