Section 2: Background

IV. An Overview of the Process

     The Five Sections of Study and their Indicators

• Introduction
• 1. Health and Safety
• 2. Social Cohesion - Culture and Recreation
• 3. Economy, Employment and Welfare
• 4. Housing and Environment
• 5. Positive Development Through Life Stages

     Background Information on the Statistics

The Five Sections of Study and their Indicators

Indicators monitor the conditions of health and well being. Within each of our five general areas of study listed below is a list of indicators in the order in which they appear. Appendix 1 gives this same list of tables, maps and graphs in alphabetical order.

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1. Health and Safety

1. Vulnerable population
2. Access to care
3. Births, deaths, and infant mortality
4. Live births by financial coverage
5. Total pregnancy and teen pregnancy rates
         Graph HS 1: Teen pregnancy
6. Low birth weight births
7. Mothers entering Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP)
8. Death -- top five causes
9. Cancer incidence rates
10. Asthma hospitalizations for children
          Map HS-1 Breast cancer incidence
          Map HS-2 Breast cancer mortality rates
11. STDs - teenagers
12. AIDS deaths
13. Sedentary lifestyle
14. Smoking prevalence
15. Overweight prevalence among adults
16. Crime - property and violent
17. Adult arrests
18. Accident and arrest reports - city
19. DWI youth arrests
20. Youth risk indicators
21. Alcohol/substance abuse (ASA) treatment needs/rates of admissions
22. Characteristics of clients admitted to ASA treatment
23. Child abuse and neglect indicated calls
24. Child abuse calls by type
25. ZAP survey 8^th grade risk behaviors
26. ZAP survey 8^th grade peer and parent influences
27. ZAP survey 8^th grade violence prevalence
          Graph HS-2 County health indicators compared to rural averages
28. Life expectancy by country
29. Summary of measures of health - Cortland, peer counties and US
30. Community Status Report, July 2000
31. Relative Health Importance
          Graph HS-3 What’s Really Killing Us in the United States?
          Graph HS-4 Actual Causes of Death in NYS, 1993

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2. Social Cohesion - Culture and Recreation

1. Cortland County parks and recreation facilities
2. Cortland County museums/art galleries and cultural centers
3. Voter participation in general election 1996-2000
4. Voter participation in presidential election, 2000
5. RSVP hours donated and total monetary value
6. Marriages rates by County, Upstate and NYS
7. Dissolutions of marriages by County, Upstate and NYS
8. Out of wedlock births

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3. Economy, Employment and Welfare

1. Employment in non-agricultural establishments
2. Self-sufficiency standard for Cortland
3. Employees on non-agricultural payrolls, 1970-2000
4. Average annual wages
5. Income Statistics
6. Unemployment
7. Child support enforcement
8. Children and youth receiving public assistance
9. Children on food stamps
10. Food stamp caseload
11. Food and nutrition programs–number of meals served
12. Department of Social Services statistics, 1995-2000
13. Census of agriculture in Cortland County
14. Cattle census
15. Maple products inventory
16. Economic impact of Dairy Farming
          Map EW-1 Median income of region by zip code
17. US Census Business and Geography QuickFacts
18. US Census Basic Facts, Labor force statistics, 1990
19. US Census Basic Facts, Income and poverty status, 1989, 1990
20. Federal Poverty Levels for 2001

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4. Housing and Environment

1. Low income housing units and occupancy rate
2. Low-income tax credits and assisted projects
3. Toxic releases to the environment
4. Cancer risk from outdoor air
5. Toxic releases to the water
6. Toxic releases to the land
7. Animal wastes
8. Animal waste rankings
9. Animal waste summary
10. Animal waste trends
11. Superfund sites
12. Landfill waste management
13. Toxic chemicals released into the air
14. National air quality standards met
15. Infectious diseases linked to the environment
16. US Census Population and Housing characteristic

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5. Positive Development Through Life Stages

1. Cortland County childcare slots
2. Students who meet state standards by district
3. School district profiles: free lunch program, drop out rate, cost/pupi
4. Children in foster care
5. Children living below poverty
6. High school graduates intending to enroll in college
7. High school graduates receiving regent’s diplomas
8. Countywide school dropout rate
9. PINS cases
         Map PD-1: PINS cases opened
10. Cortland County Area Agency on Aging -- Senior Citizen Survey

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