by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
by Sean Coté | Jul 25, 2022 | About D3, D3 Staff, Worker Ownership Series
For many who have never participated in ownership or leadership roles, the practicalities of being a worker owner might be a black box of unknowns. When we started the conversion to worker ownership, only Erica had high-level experience in leadership, and Stephanie...
by Sean Coté | Apr 27, 2022 | Detroit, Economy, Jordan Graves, transit
As part of updating a presentation on regional employment patterns, we created new graphics exploring the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data, specifically looking at changes from 2015 to 2019. What is LEHD? The Longitudinal Employer-Household...
by Sean Coté | Apr 20, 2022 | Census Data Series, Census Series, Cenus Background, Stephanie Quesnelle
As we’ve covered previously, data collection in a pandemic can be challenging. Similar to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Census Bureau faced multiple challenges collecting data for the American Community Survey (ACS). This resulted in the Census Bureau not...
by Sean Coté | Mar 11, 2022 | Census Series, Cenus Background, Rosie Liu
The decennial census counts individual people in their primary residence, but what happens to people who are living in group settings, such as those individuals currently in prison? How do they get counted and included in the census? Where can you find the data? What...
