NNIP partners featured at Association of Public Data Users (APDU) conference

Staff from two NNIP partner organizations presented at the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) conference, educating a national audience about the power of local data and being in relationship with collaborators in the interest of ensuring all neighborhoods are places where people can thrive.

Exploring the Current Practices, Benefits and Risks of Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

DataHaven explored how federal data sets ask about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), finding inconsistency across data sets about the question wording and conducted interviews with community groups serving transgender people to understand their data needs and concerns about data collection.  They also explored outcomes by SOGI categories from their local Community Wellbeing Survey for Hartford, uncovering the challenges faced by transgender residents in the city.  Finally, they analyzed the Census Household Pulse Survey to dive into how the wording of SOGI questions affected data quality.  

• Invisible in Data, Excluded from Research - A literature review of sexual orientation and gender identity data
• LGBTQIA+ Resident Wellbeing in Greater Hartford - Results from stakeholder interviews and a scoping review of publicly available data
• Presentation Slides (PDF)

 
Supporting Get Out the Vote Efforts in Hartford

CT Data Collaborative was a finalist in the APDU data visualization competition for two of their visualizations to support the Get out the Vote Coalition in Hartford.   Together with the coalition, they co-designed the analysis questions to explore with the Secretary of State’s address level voter registration data, which also includes date of birth and gender.  CT Data Staff conducted a Data Walk with the community groups on the findings and trained them to use the data.  They published a data story with percent of eligible voters who were registered and the percent of registered voters who voted in the city election, disaggregated by age and gender.  They have since extended the analysis to the entire state.

Through their conversations, they also realized the coalition needed more information about the neighborhoods to tailor their outreach strategy.  The Hartford Neighborhood Explorer Dashboards presents data on the 17 neighborhoods in Hartford to support local Get out the Vote.  Indicators include the language spoken in the home; race/ethnicity and renter/owner status.