Anchorage Community Indicators Atlas

Principal investigator(s):

Robert H. Langworthy

Shel Llee Flexman-Evans

Sharon Chamard
Other project personnel: Donald Yunker
Project dates: 2005–2009
JC#: 0509.04
Funding agency: Justice Center
Affected agency/area: Municipality of Anchorage
Project status: Closed

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The Anchorage Community Indicators (ACI) project is designed to make information (extracted from data) accessible so that conversations about the health and well-being of Anchorage may become more completely informed. Policy makers, social commentators, service delivery systems, and scholars often stake out positions based on anecdotal evidence or hunches when, in many instances, solid, empirical evidence could be compiled to support or challenge these opinions. The aim of the ACI project is to provide a research platform that supports contextual analysis of community pathos (e.g., crime, accidents, disease). As conceived, the platform itself is composed of geo-referenced data and measures of community structure. The initiative began as an effort to extend the utility of data the Justice Center collected in support of ongoing research efforts.

The purpose of the Atlas of Anchorage Community Indicators is to make empirical information about neighborhoods widely accessible to many different audiences. The initial selection of indicators for presentation in the Atlas was inspired by Peter Blau and his interest in measures of heterogeneity (diversity) and inequality and by the work of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. In both cases the measures they developed were well-conceptualized and validated. The Atlas presents community indicators at the census block group level derived from data captured in the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2005 Anchorage Community Survey.

Products

Products

Langworthy, Robert H. (Sep 2006). ACI Technical Report: Initial Measures Derived From Census. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Langworthy, Robert H.; Flexman-Evans, Shel Llee; Chamard, Sharon; McKelvie, Alan R.; and Yunker, Donald. (May 2009). Atlas of Anchorage Community Indicators. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Individual indicators from Atlas

Maps and tables for each indicator found in the Atlas of Anchorage Community Indicators are also available as separate files.

Langworthy, Robert H.; Flexman-Evans, Shel Llee; Chamard, Sharon; McKelvie, Alan R.; and Yunker, Donald. (May 2009). "Community Council Boundary Maps." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(A-D).

———. (May 2009). "Concentrated Affluence." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(1).

———. (May 2009). "Concentrated Disadvantage." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(2).

———. (May 2009). "Housing Density." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(3).

———. (May 2009). "Immigrant Concentration." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(4).

———. (May 2009). "Income Inequality (GINI)." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(13).

———. (May 2009). "Index of Concentration Extremes." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(5).

———. (May 2009). "Industrial Heterogeneity." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(6).

———. (May 2009). "Multiform Disadvantage." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(7).

———. (May 2009). "Occupational Heterogeneity." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(8).

———. (May 2009). "Population Density." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(9).

———. (May 2009). "Racial Heterogeneity." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(10).

———. (May 2009). "Ratio of Adults to Children." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(11).

———. (May 2009). "Residential Stability." Anchorage Community Indicators 4(12).