by Sean Coté | May 20, 2024 | Birthrate, D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Series, Stephanie Quesnelle
Prenatal care programs are considered key interventions for increasing the likelihood of healthy outcomes for pregnant women and their babies. While prenatal care programs can take many forms, common to all are medical visits at recommended intervals as a means of...
by Sean Coté | Apr 8, 2024 | Birthrate, D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Detroit, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Series, Stephanie Quesnelle
In an area with diverse groups of people, it can be particularly helpful to analyze these different groups separately. While exploring the birth data in Wayne County for 2017-2022 from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, we decided to look more...
by Stephanie | Mar 25, 2024 | Data Highlights, Education, Sean Coté, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently we’ve had requests to look deeper into data about kids in highly chartered communities. Here are some things that we’ve learned. Charter schools, officially known as Public School Academies in Michigan, are state-supported public schools operating under a...
by Stephanie | Jun 23, 2022 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Neighborhoods, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently, D3 received a request for data about the number of places of worship and church-owned properties in the City of Detroit. Many churches in Detroit own additional property, such as lots adjacent to their building, or operate religious housing coalitions to...
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 | Dec 16, 2021 | Census, Census Data Series, Stephanie Quesnelle
The Census Bureau has started releasing data from the 2020 Decennial Census. The Census data is comprehensive, attempting to count every single person living in the United States, which means that the data collected isn’t as detailed as other data sources. However, we...
