Save the Date for CTData Conference 2024! October 17 As data people, our role often includes making connections across organizations or geographies to help identify areas of progress or challenge in the social sector. During this year's conference, participants will learn about the pivotal role data has played in making connections, improving systems, and measuring outcomes through data integration, data infrastructure development, data strategy building, and more. The conference will take place at the beautiful Heritage Hotel in Southbury, CT. With many
beautiful indoor-outdoor gathering spaces, you will have many opportunities to develop new connections, share ideas, and start new partnerships. Keep an eye out in this newsletter for more details soon! Welcome to Our Newest Team Member! Chenfei Ma joins as Data Analyst
As Data Analyst, in addition to working on a range of data projects, Chenfei will work alongside the CTData analytics team, with a diverse set of responsibilities engaging with both data and community members. A key part of her role will include working with the Hartford Data Collaborative to facilitate data sharing and data integration. Along with her crucial role in data integration efforts among agencies in Hartford, she will support CTData’s overall
mission by contributing to a varied mix of projects involving data analysis and data visualizations. Learn more about Chenfei! Hartford Youth Data Fellows Data Walk Please join us!
Our Hartford Youth Data Fellows are ten youths ages 17-24 from Hartford who join the Hartford Data Collaborative for 5 months to learn data skills and engage in community projects. As part of the collaborative, they receive stipends for their work and contributions. Hear their insights on May 20th and share your own.
Register here. Community Conversations: Building an Ethical and Equitable Data Culture (Equity in Data Community of Practice) May 21: This month, we'll have a community conversation exploring how to cultivate an ethical and equitable data
culture. UNconference (Equity in Data Community of Practice) June 18: Join us for a virtual session where we will talk about the topics YOU are most interested in. Hartford Young Children Data Story
CTData partnered with the City of Hartford Department of Families, Children, Youth, and Recreation
to create the Hartford Young Children Data Story. Our analysis provides an overview of young children in Hartford, including topics such as neighborhoods children live in, child care program access, birth trends, and more. Webinar Replay: Promoting Equitable Recovery for Hartford's Young Children
On Thursday, May 2, 2024, we held an event
discussing the findings of our most recent research report, Promoting Equitable Pandemic Recovery for Hartford’s Young Children. We also heard about how the City of Hartford is using our findings to inform their work, discussed some other early childhood research going on at CTData, and heard from Courtney Parkerson at The Connecticut Project about the statewide RAPID survey of families with young children that has just launched. View the slides and watch the video here. The Population Estimates "Blended Base:" What it is and Why it Matters The blended base is the estimate of the national, state, and county populations by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin as of April 1st, 2020, that the Census Bureau has used in their population estimates since the 2020 Decennial Census. In this blog post, we: - Provide an introduction to the blended base and why it matters
- Compare Connecticut’s blended base population estimates by age and sex to the 2020 Decennial Census counts for the state
- Discuss the future of the
population estimates base
- Dive into more details on the blended base methodology for those who are interested
Read the post
here. Work from Home Trends andCommuting Patterns Since 2019 During the Covid-19 pandemic, some workplaces quickly transitioned from
in-person work to remote work. While many workplaces have returned to offices, many other jobs have continued to be performed at home. We wanted to look at these trends using two Census Bureau data products: the American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES). Read the post here. Copyright © 2022 CTData Collaborative, All rights reserved.
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