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Urbanization Perceptions Small Area Index
This service provides a tract-level dataset illustrating the outcome of machine learning techniques applied to neighborhood classification reported by the American Housing Survey (AHS) as either urban, suburban, or rural. Definitions of “urban” and “rural” are abundant in government, academic literature, and data-driven journalism. Equally abundant are debates about what is urban or rural and which factors should be used to define these terms. Absent from most of this discussion is evidence about how people perceive or describe their neighborhood. Moreover, as several housing and demographic researchers have noted, the lack of an official or unofficial definition of suburban obscures the stylized fact that a majority of Americans live in a suburban setting. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development added a simple question to the 2017 American Housing Survey (AHS) asking respondents to describe their neighborhood as urban, suburban, or rural.
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ArcGIS Hub Dataset
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Geo Database
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Shapefile
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ArcGIS Hub Dataset
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| description | This service provides a tract-level dataset illustrating the outcome of machine learning techniques applied to neighborhood classification reported by the American Housing Survey (AHS) as either urban, suburban, or rural. Definitions of “urban” and “rural” are abundant in government, academic literature, and data-driven journalism. Equally abundant are debates about what is urban or rural and which factors should be used to define these terms. Absent from most of this discussion is evidence about how people perceive or describe their neighborhood. Moreover, as several housing and demographic researchers have noted, the lack of an official or unofficial definition of suburban obscures the stylized fact that a majority of Americans live in a suburban setting. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development added a simple question to the 2017 American Housing Survey (AHS) asking respondents to describe their neighborhood as urban, suburban, or rural. |
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| modified | 2023-08-11T15:03:58.297Z |
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| title | Urbanization Perceptions Small Area Index |
