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Blog: Unemployment Rate Trends of the Past 5 Years: Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Pandemic
Mar. 21, 2024 : In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic ended the United States’ decade-long era of economic expansion. Many businesses across industries halted or closed operations, resulting in record-high temporary and permanent job losses – events that have been reflected in unemployment rate trends. Primarily, unemployment affects people’s economic stability and well-being, but it goes... Read moreBlog: 2023 NHIS Early Release: Estimates from Quarter 3 (July to September) Hold Steady
Mar. 06, 2024 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage beginning in July 2022 through September 2023 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. Each quarter covers a three-month span, and this blog specifically looks at survey data from the most recent quarter (Q3 - July to September 2023) and... Read moreBlog: Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile Updated to Include 2022 American Community Survey Estimates
Mar. 01, 2024 : Five-year American Community Survey estimates have been released for 2022, which means that SHADAC researchers have updated our ‘Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile’ to include this latest data. This resource, originally created as part of the ‘Minnesota’s Uninsured and the Communities in Which... Read moreBlog: 2020 Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) Updates in the 2022 American Community Survey
Feb. 28, 2024 : A Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) is a type of geographic unit created for statistical purposes. PUMAs represent geographic areas with a population size of 100,000–200,000 within a state (PUMAs cannot cross state lines). PUMAs are the smallest level of geography available in American Community Survey (ACS) microdata. They are designed to protect respondent confidentiality while simultaneously... Read moreBlog: Now Available on State Health Compare: New 2022 Estimates from the ACS and CPS
Feb. 19, 2024 : 2022 estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS) are now available for eight measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare. Updated measures using new ACS data include: Coverage Type Health insurance coverage by type of coverage (private, public, employer-sponsored, Medicare, Medicaid/CHIP, individual, and uninsured) available by... Read moreBlog: New Data on Health Insurance Coverage by Race/Ethnicity Added to State Health Compare
Feb. 05, 2024 : State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) has added two new racial/ethnic population groups to our measures of health insurance coverage available on State Health Compare. Using micro-data from the American Community Survey (ACS), we were able to add health insurance coverage measures for American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations.... Read moreBlog: SHADAC and CRC Brief Provides Pre-Legalization Data on Minnesota’s Cannabis Landscape
Jan. 30, 2024 : Even before legalization, cannabis use was rising in Minnesota Cannabis policy in the United States has evolved during the past decade. After voters in Colorado and Washington approved ballot measures to legalize cannabis in 2012, other states began to follow suit. In 2023, Minnesota became the 23rd state to legalize adult use of non-medical cannabis. By the end of... Read moreBlog: Revised Childhood Vaccinations Measure on State Health Compare Shows Vaccination Rates Vary by State, Race/Ethnicity, and Insurance Coverage
Jan. 24, 2024 : Introduction Childhood Vaccinations are an effective way to protect infants and young children from harmful diseases that can cause serious illness or death. Children are commonly vaccinated against a number of diseases, including chickenpox (Varicella), polio, hepatitis A and B, and measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). Despite the well-documented safety and efficacy of the vaccines,... Read morePages
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