Greater New Haven Community Index 2019
Author: DataHaven
Date: 2019
Abstract: What matters more, having a job or having food on your plate? Can money really buy happiness? Is it really true that if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything? As federal, state, and local agencies wrestle with one tough budget season after another, and have to decide how to help the greatest number of people with limited government funds, these questions matter—a lot. Understanding what people need across our regions and neighborhoods helps answer these questions. This report, The Greater New Haven Community Index 2019, collects and analyzes over 100 sources of national, state, and local data that pertain to these questions. But we have supplemented that information by conducting live, in-depth interviews with tens of thousands of randomly-selected adults statewide—over 32,000 in 2015 and 2018, including conversations with 5,000 representative adults in Greater New Haven. The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS), believed to be the largest of its type in the United States, produces reliable data about life satisfaction, physical and mental health, neighborhood conditions, economic opportunity, and civic engagement that are not available at the local level from any of the other public data sources we work with. We use the latest data from the 2018 DCWS throughout this report. Data from our 2012 and 2015 DCWS were also discussed in the 2013 and 2016 iterations of this report.
Tags: Children & families, Data to action, Economy, Employment, Happiness, Health, Housing, Impact, Neighborhoods, Poverty, Transportation, Wellbeing,
Link to Resource: https://www.ctdatahaven.org/sites/ctdatahaven/files/DataHaven_GNH_Community_Index_2019.pdf
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Date: 2019
Abstract: What matters more, having a job or having food on your plate? Can money really buy happiness? Is it really true that if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything? As federal, state, and local agencies wrestle with one tough budget season after another, and have to decide how to help the greatest number of people with limited government funds, these questions matter—a lot. Understanding what people need across our regions and neighborhoods helps answer these questions. This report, The Greater New Haven Community Index 2019, collects and analyzes over 100 sources of national, state, and local data that pertain to these questions. But we have supplemented that information by conducting live, in-depth interviews with tens of thousands of randomly-selected adults statewide—over 32,000 in 2015 and 2018, including conversations with 5,000 representative adults in Greater New Haven. The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS), believed to be the largest of its type in the United States, produces reliable data about life satisfaction, physical and mental health, neighborhood conditions, economic opportunity, and civic engagement that are not available at the local level from any of the other public data sources we work with. We use the latest data from the 2018 DCWS throughout this report. Data from our 2012 and 2015 DCWS were also discussed in the 2013 and 2016 iterations of this report.
Tags: Children & families, Data to action, Economy, Employment, Happiness, Health, Housing, Impact, Neighborhoods, Poverty, Transportation, Wellbeing,
Link to Resource: https://www.ctdatahaven.org/sites/ctdatahaven/files/DataHaven_GNH_Community_Index_2019.pdf
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