Economic Justice Data Resources
Workforce information, wage gaps, information regarding unemployment, frontline workers, and small business. It also includes information about financial well-being and income disparities. Economic mobility, or lack thereof due to income, assists in representing longitudinal and current data
Dashboards: Data portal with easy to access data points, analysis may be available.
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Region: STATE; LOCAL
Description: Data has information on income, poverty, household rate and how these factors influenced by business, housing, health and educations. Some data can be viewed by race.
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Description: From website “comprehensive assessment of racial equity and racial justice funding to date, providing a detailed analysis of funding from 2015–2018 and a preliminary analysis for 2020. Written by Malkia Devich Cyril, Lyle Matthew Kan, Ben Francisco Maulbeck, and Lori Villarosa, the report examines trends, contradictions, and divergences in funding for both racial equity and racial justice work.”
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Region: NATIONAL; STATE; LOCAL
Description: Interactive map shows income and poverty levels by age, and families.
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Region: STATE
Description: Interactive data that shows how much Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be gained if racial and gender gaps did not exist. These are estimates and the data is from the federal reserve data.
Datasets: User is able to do analysis with this data.
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Region: COUNTY & STATE
Accessibility level: Need access to programs in order to do analysis
Description: The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state, and national levels by industry. Accessible in two ways version 1 does not require registration but is more limited and version two is more updated but requires registration. Need access to R or SASS in order to do analysis.
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Region: STATE & CITY
Accessibility level: Data is visible, and you can make data visualization (graphs and tables) on the data portal.
Description: New businesses registered with the Secretary of State Corporation Division during the previous month. Data is updated on the first working day of each month. Does not include demographic data.
Open Data Link
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Region: NATIONAL; STATE; LOCAL
Description: The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry. Accessible in two ways version 1 does not require registration but is more limited and version two is more updated but requires registration. Need access to R ior SASS in order to do analysis.
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Region: NATIONAL
Description: Data on census survey on income and the long term effects on families, and children from 2021-1984. The link includes downloadable data and tables from the survey. There is also a link to the data’s codebook.
Data tables: Show counts and percentages user is unable to do analysis.
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Region: LOCAL
Accessibility level: Data tables downloadable
Description: produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence. No demographic data
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Region: NATIONAL
Accessibility level: Downloadable tables
Description: The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) is a Federal/State cooperative program that publishes estimates on nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses. Each year, approximately 200,000 employers report for establishments in private industry and the public sector (state and local government). In-scope cases include work-related injuries or illnesses to workers who require medical care beyond first aid. See the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the entire recordkeeping guidelines. The SOII excludes all work-related fatalities as well as nonfatal work injuries and illnesses to the self–employed; workers on farms with 10 or fewer employees; private household workers; volunteers; and to federal government workers. For more information on the scope and sampling methodology see the SOII Handbook of Methods. Data associated with fatal workplace injuries
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Region: STATE
Accessibility level: Downloadable data tables
Description: Tables show loss of employment income and status by state. Educational attainment and reasons why adults were not working, receiving unemployment insurance, and working from home including demographics
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Region: NATIONAL STATE
Accessibility level: Data tables
Description: These data tables show census data on household and individual spending and those who qualified for the child tax credit in 2020. The data includes demographics including but not limited to Race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and education attainment.
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Region: LOCAL
Description: Users can write type in an address or property ID to get the property value houses in a particular neighborhood from the last 5 years. Data is represented in a table and graph.
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Region: NATIONAL; STATE; LOCAL
Description: From website “ The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s.” The data is represented in an interactive map.
Reports: Data is usually not available.
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Region: NATIONAL
Description: Report detailing the results of the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Investigates the wealth gaps between races and ethnicities in income homeownership, inheritance, and retirement.
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Region: LOCAL
Description: This website has research on the effects of land use planning on displacement of communities in Portland OR. There are multiple reports and assessments from 2018, 2013 and 2012.
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Region: NATIONAL
Description: Looking at the state of economic mobility in Oregon and what is needed (foundation specific) to decrease opportunity gaps.