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    Job Market and Labor Force Race and Ethnicity Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros
    job_access_gap.csv ( Apr 15, 2021 )
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    job_access_gap.geojson ( Apr 15, 2021 )
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    job_access_gap_dict.csv ( Apr 15, 2021 )
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    job_access_gap_equity.csv ( Apr 15, 2021 )
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    job_access_gap_equity_dict.csv ( Apr 15, 2021 )
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    Updated 2021-04-15 This entry includes the data behind the Urban Institute's Unequal Commute feature which was published on October 6, 2020. For more information on how the data included here is calculated, please reference our technical appendix. Below are descriptions of all available files:

    • job_access_gap.geojson: A geojson file that includes metrics on access to jobs at the block group level and geospatial data on blockgroup boundaries that is used to create the feature maps.
    • job_access_gap.csv: A csv file that includes the same fields as the geojson file above.
    • job_access_dict.csv: Data dictionary for job_access_gap.geojson and job_access_gap.csv.
    • job_access_gap_equity.csv: A csv file that includes racial and ethnic composition of block groups with the highest 10% of spatial mismatch in each CBSA and overall racial and ethnic composition in each CBSA. This file is used to create the feature bar plot.
    • job_access_gap_equity_dict.csv: Data dictionary for job_access_gap_equity.csv.

    If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].
    Dataset Info
    2. Modified 2024-07-03
    4. Release Date 2021-04-15
    6. Temporal Coverage
    8. License odc-by
    10. Granularity
    12. Contact Name Urban Institute
    14. Contact Email [email protected]
    16. Public Access Level public
    Urban Extended Info
    1. Modified 2024-07-03
    2. Release Date 2021-04-15
    3. Geographic Level
    4. Data Value
    5. Data Quality
    6. Urban Publications
    7. Citation Requirements Urban Institute. 2021. Unequal Commute Data. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/unequal-commute-data. Data originally sourced from US Census Bureau’s 2017 LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics, 2014–18 American Community Survey five-year estimates, Transitland repository, OpenStreetMap, and INRIX’s 2019 Global Traffic Scorecard, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.