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Anti-Critical Race Theory measures

November 21, 2024

IPUMS CDOH has released a new dataset from the CRT Forward Tracking Project, part of the UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies program. The CRT Forward Tracking Project provides detailed information about anti-critical race theory (CRT) measures introduced by various government entities, including the U.S. Congress, boards of education, governor's offices, attorneys general, local school boards, and city and county councils. The dataset describes the type of conduct that is restricted or required, the regulated institutions, specifics of the targeted conduct, and enforcement mechanisms that regulate the conduct.

Each record in the dataset describes a specific anti-CRT measure and includes geographic identifiers that faciliate linking data from other sources (e.g., American Community Survey, Decennial Census, National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data).

Updates to CDOH measures

February 6, 2024

IPUMS CDOH has updated 13 measures and added one new measure related to contextual determinants of health. We have added data from additional time periods to 13 of our measures, and we added a measure related to same-sex households using county-level data from the 2020 U.S. Decennial Census. Extending measures to cover more time periods allows scientists to match CDOH data up with datasets collected at different points in time.

Initial release of IPUMS CDOH measures

April 11, 2023

IPUMS CDOH has released it first fifteen measures related to contextual determinants of health. The initial data release includes five county-level measures related to racism, eight state-level measures related to sexism and cisheterosexism, and state and county-level measures of results from the 2020 presidential election. Data are available for various temporal ranges and frequencies, and users are urged to read each measure's technical documentation to learn more.