September 2026
Updates to 13 CDOH measures plus addition of three new measures
September 18, 2024
This release updates 13 measures and adds three new measures to IPUMS CDOH. We extended a number of measures to include data from more time points.
We added data from the 2019-2023 and 2020-2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Summary Files for the following measures:
- Educational inequity
- Employment inequity
- Homeownership inequity
- Income inequity
- Residential segregation - index of dissimilarity inequity
We added data from 2023 and 2024 to the following measures:
- Earnings ratio
- Labor force ratio
We added data from the 2024 and 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS) to the following measure:
- Poverty ratio
We added data up through 2028 to the following measure:
- Paid family and medical leave
We added data from 2024 and 2025 to the following measure:
- Proportion of state legislators identifying as female
We added data from 2023-2025 to the following measure:
- Abortion access
We added data from 2024 to the following measures:
- State presidential election results
- County presidential election results
p>In addition to the updates listed above, we also added three new measures to CDOH. The new measures provide state-level data related to various facets of cisheterosexism, including policies related to sexual orientation and gender identity, attitudes towards such policies, and same-sex marriages/unions/cohabitations.
Racial/Ethnic Spatial Context Indicator
December 1, 2025
This release provides a new dataset developed by Carolyn Liebler, Miri Song, and Christopher Levesque for a book entitled Mixed Heritage in the Family: Racial Identity, Spousal Choice, and Childrearing. The Racial/Ethnic Spatial Context Indicator (RESCI) is a categorical variable assigned to each United States county in 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. RESCI is derived from a principal component analysis and cluster analysis of 28 historical and contemporary county-level measures that are relevant to Asian, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native (Native), and White people. Essentially, RESCI captures the racialized context in which people identifying as Asian, Black, Native, and/or White reside. The dataset contains one record for each county-year from 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010.
November 2024
Anti-Critical Race Theory measures
November 21, 2024
This release provides 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).
February 2024
Updates to CDOH measures
February 6, 2024
This release updates 13 measures and adds one new measure to IPUMS CDOH. We extended a number of measures to include data from more time points.
We added data from the 2006-2010 to the 2018-2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Summary Files for the following measures:
- Educational inequity
- Employment inequity
- Homeownership inequity
- Income inequity
- Residential segregation - index of dissimilarity inequity
We added data from 2021 and 2022 to the following measures:
- Earnings ratio
- Labor force ratio
We added data from the 2023 Current Population Survey (CPS) to the following measure:
- Poverty ratio
We added data from 2004-2019 and 2023 to the following measure:
- Paid family and medical leave
We added data from 2023 to the following measure:
- Proportion of state legislators identifying as female
We updated the county population estimates used for Alaska and Hawaii in the following measure:
- Abortion access
We added data from 1976-2016 to the following measure:
- State presidential election results
We added data from 2000-2016 to the following measure:
- County presidential election results
In addition to the updates listed above, we also added one new measure to CDOH. The 2020 United States Decennial Census provides counts of same-sex households, both in marriages and in unmarried partnerships, for all counties. We compute the following four county-level proportions:
- Proportion of same-sex unions among all unions
- Proportion of same-sex marriages among all marriages
- Proportion of same-sex marriages among all same-sex unions
- Proportion of same-sex unions among all households
April 2023
Initial release of contextual determinants of health 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.