Data Sources
- Data on presence and type of internet subscription by household come from the U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) Five-Year estimates for 2015-19, which is the current ACS vintage as of September 2021 (see Table B28002).
- Data on broadband adoption by race/ethnicity were derived from ACS 2015-19 Tables B28003 (“Presence of a Computer and Type of Internet Subscription in Household”) and B28009H (“Presence of a Computer and Type of Internet Subscription in Household [White Alone, Not Hispanic or Latinx]”).
- Broadband service by census block, Broadband Now package prices, and Ookla speed test data all from from from Esri’s Living Atlas, which is partially built on the FCC’s Form 477 Fixed Broadband Deployment Data.
- All other socioeconomic and demographic layers were also sourced from the current ACS.
Geographic Assignment
The political district and ZIP code filters on the home page tools were created by assigning each census tract to the geographic area in which the tract’s centermost point, or geographic centroid, falls. This method means that district- and ZIP-level data reflect estimates and should be treated as such.
Funding and Acknowledgements
The NYS Digital Equity Portal is supported in part with federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds allocated to the New York State Library by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project team and collaborators included individuals from the John R. Oishei Foundation, Community Technology New York, and the Cornell University ILR School Buffalo Co-Lab. Special thanks to Cornell University ILR student Jean Fang for her role in collecting necessary data.
Contact
Direct questions or feedback to: rcweaver@cornell.edu