Correction made to export to Excel function for three indicators.

An issue was identified affecting the export to Excel data for multi-county report areas in three indicator datasets. For these indicators a database query needed to summarize data across multiple counties was missing causing state, county, and national values to populate across the excel table columns incorrectly. This issue has been addressed. Affected indicators: 30-Day…

Correction made to custom geographic areas for Access to Primary Care indicator values.

An error was identified in which the numerator (number of primary care physicians) and denominator (total population) values for custom geographic areas were reported as a multi-year aggregate rather than for a single year. Numerator and denominator values have been updated to represent the counts for year 2014 only. Rates expressed per 100,000 population were…

New maps and data now available for the Poor Mental Health Days indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).

Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2017). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators: Poor Mental Health Days

New maps and data now available for the Transfer Payments indicator from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

New maps and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis display information about personal income from transfer receipts (benefits received by persons for which no current services are performed). New breakouts display transfer payment income by source: Retirement and disability; Medical benefits; Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.); Unemployment; Veterans’ benefits; Education and training…

Correction made to United States value for High School Graduation Rate.

An error was identified in the query used to generate the figure for national high school graduation rates. For this dataset, the national figure is generated by summing the county-level components within the original dataset. Some of the underlying geographies with No Data were being added improperly to the national totals. The issue has been…