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The data sources available in mySidewalk.

Data Sources in mySidewalk

Overview of the 2020 Decennial Census data provided in mySidewalk.

The Decennial Census 2020

Explainer on ACS 5-Year Estimates. Details on release schedule, updates in mySidewalk, and key considerations for interpreting the data.

U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

This article explains the differences between the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year and 5-Year Estimates.

U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year vs. 5-Year Estimates

How mySidewalk recalculates historical Census data into Modern geographies.

Understanding Historical Census Data in mySidewalk

Learn how mySidewalk creates projected values for select Census data indicators.

Census Projections in mySidewalk

Apportionment & Harmonization: How mySidewalk calculates data into modern boundaries.

Getting data into Modern and/or Custom Geographic Boundaries

Learn about data normalization and how—and when—to use it to provide context and make data more comparable.

What Is Normalization and When Should I Normalize?

Understand why some data appears as “NULL” or “No Data” in mySidewalk.

Data Availability

The distinction between crude and age-adjusted mortality rates in CDC WONDER data and how to use this information effectively in mySidewalk.

Understanding CDC WONDER Data: Crude and Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates

Overview of the processes undertaken to build and maintain the data in the mySidewalk data library.

How the mySidewalk Data Library is Built

Find out where we get the mySidewalk data and how you can site it

How To: View mySidewalk Data Source Information

This article describes the differences between the three Indices of Social Vulnerability in mySidewalk, and when to use them.

Indices of Social Vulnerability

The HVRI Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) measures the social vulnerability of U.S. counties to environmental hazards.

HVRI Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards

The CDC SVI helps identify communities most likely to need support before, during, and after hazardous events

CDC ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index

The Environmental Hazard Community Resilience Score is part of the National Risk Index and assesses resilience to environmental hazards.

FEMA Environmental Hazard Community Resilience Score

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