Health outcomes and the vote

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

Which of 40 small-area health outcomes track the vote net of demographics?

The data

• Precinct votes on census geographiesYears: 2016 and 2020 (contiguous United States only)
• CDC PLACESYears: Release as distributed with the tract and ZCTA atlas files.

rlcrcdc-places

The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part XIII, Hardship, health and the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.