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    Racial and Social Equity Composite Index Current

    Metadata Updated: February 28, 2025

    !!PLEASE NOTE!! When downloading the data, please select "File Geodatabase" to preserve long field names. Shapefile will truncate field names to 10 characters.Version: CurrentThe Racial and Social Equity Index combines information on race, ethnicity, and related demographics with data on socioeconomic and health disadvantages to identify where priority populations make up relatively large proportions of neighborhood residents. Click here for a User Guide.See the layer in action in the Racial and Social Equity ViewerClick here for an 11x17 printable pdf version of the map.The Composite Index includes sub-indices of:   Race, English Language Learners, and Origins Index ranks census tracts by an index of three measures weighted as follows: Persons of color (weight: 1.0) English language learner (weight: 0.5) Foreign born (weight: 0.5)Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index ranks census tracts by an index of two equally weighted measures:Income below 200% of poverty level Educational attainment less than a bachelor’s degreeHealth Disadvantage Index ranks census tracts by an index of seven equally weighted measures:No leisure-time physical activityDiagnosed diabetes ObesityMental health not good AsthmaLow life expectancy at birthDisabilityThe index does not reflect population densities, nor does it show variation within census tracts which can be important considerations at a local level.<div style='font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Aven

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    Metadata Created Date February 17, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date February 28, 2025

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    Harvested from Seattle JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 17, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date February 28, 2025
    Publisher City of Seattle ArcGIS Online
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2023-01-27
    Data Last Modified 2024-03-18
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://cos-data.seattle.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Title Seattle JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/SeattleCityGIS::racial-and-social-equity-composite-index-current
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -122.5191,47.0735,-121.0663,47.7883
    Source Datajson Identifier True
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