Community Health Data Base - Penn Libraries data resources: CHDB Demographic Product

Past versions of the CHDB Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey data releases included Profiler, a tool that output mutli-year aggregations of contextual data for small areas within the 5-county SEPA survey area. With the 2012 SEPA HHS data release, the PHMC retired Profiler and released the contextual data in MS Excel spreadsheets and SPSS data files; the current version of the data expand geographic coverage to include Berks County

The CHDB Census & Vital Statistics provide these data:

• "Census" variables (decennial Census of Population & Housing, 5-year American Community Survey, as reported in the Nielsen/Claritas Pop-Facts Data Base with future estimates)
• Birth and Birth Outcomes (Pennsylvania Department of Health: birth certificates)
• Mortality Rates (Pennsylvania Department of Health: death certificates)

for these geographies:

• County
• ZIP Code
• Minor Civil Division (i.e., boroughs, townships)
• Census Tract (defined for the 2010 Census)
• Neighborhood (within Philadelphia, defined by PHMC using Census Tracts).

Birth and mortality data are based upon annual averages from 2007-2010, with rates and percentages included.

More information is provided in the documentation:

• Demographic Product Documentation.pdf

In addition to these CHDB demographic products, for annual Philadelphia birth and death statistics by census tract and ZIP Code, see:

• Philadelphia Vital Statistics Reports / Department of Health, City of Philadelphia.

A ZIP-archive of SPSS *.sav-format files is also available:

• Census_and_Vital_Release_201310_SPSS_Data_File.zip