University of Wisconsin: Area Deprivation Index
| Details | Income, education, employment, housing quality |
|---|---|
| Topics | Social determinants of health |
| Source | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) Center for Health Disparities Research |
| Years Available | 2015, 2020 |
| Geographies | block group |
| Public Edition or Subscriber-only | Public Edition |
| Download Available | yes |
| For more information | https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/ |
| Last updated on PolicyMap | October 2022 |
Description:
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) Center for Health Disparities Research created the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) based on a methodology originally developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Area Deprivation Index ranks Census block groups on the basis of socioeconomic disadvantage in the areas of income, education, employment, and housing quality. Underlying indicators are from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2011-2015 for 2015 ADI and 2016-2020 for 2020 ADI. Higher Area Deprivation Index scores have been shown to correlate with worse health outcomes in measures such as life expectancy.
Two types of scores and ranks are reported—national and state. National scores are reported as percentiles, where 100 is the highest disadvantage, and 1 is the lowest. State scores are reported as deciles, where 10 is the highest and 1 is the lowest. National scores are normalized to the whole country, and state scores are normalized to a particular state. For ease of interpretation, PolicyMap grouped ADI scores into quintiles, or 5 categories of the same size, and labeled them from Very Low to Very High. For example, a block group with a score between 81-100 would be listed as having “Very High” deprivation.
Downloaded from https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/ October 24, 2022.
This project was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number RF1AG057784 (PI: Kind), the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01MD010243 (PI: Kind); the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) Center for Health Disparities Research and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AG070883 ({I: Kind, Bendlin). The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or of the University of Wisconsin.
When sourcing the ADI from PolicyMap, please cite as follows:
Kind AJH, Buckingham W. Making Neighborhood Disadvantage Metrics Accessible: The Neighborhood Atlas. New England Journal of Medicine, 2018. 378: 2456-2458. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1802313. PMCID: PMC6051533 via www.policymap.com.
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