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 populations
2. Access to health 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 rates
6. Low birth weight births
7. Characteristics of Mothers entering Prenatal Care 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 by type
         Graph HS-2 Child abuse comparisons
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-3 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-4 What’s Really Killing Us in the United States?
          Graph HS-5 Actual Causes of Death in NYS, 1993
32. Domestic violence calls. victims sheltered - AVV
33. Immunization for children entering schools of various types
34. Cigarettte smoking survey - by Reality Check
35. Definitions of Selected Terms

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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 top 5 and bottom 5 election districts, 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. Children in poverty by country
5. Income Statistics
6. Unemployment
7. Child support enforcement
8. Children and youth receiving public assistance
9. Children on food stamps
10. Drug and alcohol use related to foster care
         Graph EW-1 Average annual food stamp caseload
11. Food and nutrition programs–number of meals served
12. Department of Social Services statistics, 1995-2001
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 1998
         Graph EW-2 Median household and per capita income 2000
17. US Census Cortland County People QuickFacts
18. US Census DP-3 Selected economic characteristics, 2000
19. Federal Poverty Levels for 2001
         Graph EW-3 Percent change in qunitile shares US 1967-1999

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4. Housing and Environment

1. Low income/elderly public housing, 2001
2. Low-income tax credit/assisted housing projects
3. Chemical releases or waste generation, 1999
4. Releases weighted by potential health impact
5. Releases sorted by recognized health effects
6. Releases sorted by suspected health effects
7. Summary of major chemical releases or waste generation, 1999
8. Animal waste rankings
9. Animal waste summary of amounts
10. Animal waste trends
11. County Superfund sites
12. County waste management
13. Toxic release inventory (TRI) data summary
14. National air quality standards met, 1998
15. Infectious diseases linked to the environment, 1994-1998
16. US Census DP-1 Demographic and Housing characteristics, 2000
17. US Census DP-4 Selected housig characteristics, 2000
18. Housing unit occupancy
19. Type of occupancy
20. Housing vacancy rates
21. Housing stock values
22. Households where housing costs are 30%+ of household income

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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 and % eligible for free lunch program
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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