The above data files supply the variables that populate the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard. The data files each contain a number prefix to offer easy ways to differentiate the many files. Each file is organized to group similar types of information together for as many mobility metrics as it relates to.
Overall values for counties across multiple years have their own files, and we have a separate file for cities, which we label as “places” to stand for census places. For metrics that we disaggregate by certain categories, we have a separate file to capture those different categories, including race/ethnicity, income, disability, age, gender, housing tenure, industry, mother’s education, and the racial characteristics of neighborhoods. All of these, if applicable, are in two separate files for those in counties vs those in cities, where available. Each of these files will have geographic indicators and year indicators, and the geographic indicators will have both a numeric code and character variables that spell out the name of the state and county or city so that users can more easily filter the data and see all the communities available.
The table below provides a brief summary of each file as well as a list of the subgroups that can be found in them. For more detailed information around the variables within these files visit the data dictionary.
Dataset | File Subgroups | Description |
11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal | None | This file contains overall county-level statistics for all mobility metrics. There are no subgroups in this file, so the measures represent the entirety of the county. |
12_mobility-metrics_county_race-ethnicity_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the race and ethnicity of the head of households or individual the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
13_mobility-metrics_county_race-share_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the racial composition of neighborhoods within a county. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
14_mobility-metrics_county_income_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the economic position of the household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
15_mobility-metrics_county_age_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the age of the head of household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
16_mobility-metrics_county_gender_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the gender of the head of household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
17_mobility-metrics_county_tenure_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the tenure of the household the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
18_mobility-metrics_county_disability_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the disability status of the head of household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
19_mobility-metrics_county_industry_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the industry the head of household or person the metric is describing is employed in. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
20_mobility-metrics_county_mothers_education_longitudinal |
| This file contains county-level statistics broken out by the educational level achieved by the mother of the person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
61_mobility-metrics_place_longitudinal |
| This file contains overall place-level statistics for all mobility metrics. There are no subgroups in this file, so the measures represent the entirety of the place. |
62_mobility-metrics_place_race-ethnicity_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the race and ethnicity of the head of households or individual the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
63_mobility-metrics_place_race-share_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the racial composition of neighborhoods within a place. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
64_mobility-metrics_place_income_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the economic position of the household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
65_mobility-metrics_place_age_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the age of the head of household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
66_mobility-metrics_place_gender_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the gender of the head of household or person the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
67_mobility-metrics_place_tenure_longitudinal |
| This file contains overall place-level statistics for all mobility metrics. There are no subgroups in this file, so the measures represent the entirety of the place. |
68_mobility-metrics_place_disability_longitudinal |
| This file contains place-level statistics broken out by the race and ethnicity of the head of households or individual the metric is describing. Not all metrics are available in this file. |
The “Revisions” tab (next to the default “View” tab) is where we store an archive of past years of data files. We maintain these for posterity, but the current data files will contain all of the years of data and variables tied to each metric.
Each metric will have at least one main variable that is the metric value. Some metrics require more than one main variable, for example the mobility metric “household income at the 20th, 50th, and 80th percentiles” has three main variables: pctl_income_20, pctl_income_50, and pctl_income_80. Each mani variable will have a group of accompanying variables that will include its data quality index (“_quality”) and, if confidence intervals are calculated, a pair of variables that indicate the lower-bound (“_lb”) and upper-bound (“_ub”) values all of which will have a prefix that matches the main variable name.
To see the programming code that generate each of these variables, visit our public GitHub site: https://github.com/UI-Research/mobility-from-poverty. See the data dashboard Appendix to learn how each metric performed against our selection criteria, alternative metrics considered, and a summary of the data available in the Dashboard for each metric (i.e., years, categories of disaggregation, and data sources).
Dataset Info
- Modified 2024-09-16
- Release Date 2024-09-09
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- License odc-by
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- Contact Name Urban Institute
- Contact Email [email protected]
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Urban Extended Info
- Modified 2024-09-16
- Release Date 2024-09-09
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- Data Value
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Urban Publications
- Citation Requirements Urban Institute. 2024. Mobility Metrics Data for the Upward Mobility Framework. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/mobility-metrics-data-upward-mobility-framework. Data originally sourced from , developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.
