View source for DASH Guide:Obesity Rates

''This guide is just part of a larger [[DASH Data Guide]].''

Obesity rates for each Census Tract in Allegheny County were produced for the study “Developing small-area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States." The data is not explicitly based on population surveys or data collection conducted in Allegheny County, but rather estimated using statistical modeling techniques. In this technique, researchers applied the obesity rate of a demographically similar census tract to one in Allegheny County to compute an obesity rate.

=== What's Included in the Data ===

===== Publicly Available =====

* Census Tract
* Obesity prevalence

=== Where to Find the Data ===

* [https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-obesity-rates Open Data on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center's Website]
* [https://wprdc.carto.com/builder/1994fce8-efcb-11e6-ba1b-0ee66e2c9693/embed?state=%7B%22map%22%3A%7B%22ne%22%3A%5B40.31644640396172%2C-80.24002075195312%5D%2C%22sw%22%3A%5B40.56259043867053%2C-79.73464965820312%5D%7D%2C%22widgets%22%3A%7B%224ff85e01-a677-4590-b030-c8c3fb4b14f6%22%3A%7B%22normalized%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%7D Interactive Map]

=== Things to Know ===

* For more information, please see: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25261951 Ortega Hinojosa AM, Davies MM, Jarjour S. et al. Developing small-area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States for use in Environmental Public Health Tracking. Environ Res. 2014 Oct; 134:435-52. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.07.029. Epub 2014 Sep 28].
* This technique is similar to those that were used in the 500 Cities project. The [https://www.cdc.gov/places/about/500-cities-2016-2019/index.html 500 Cities project] was a collaboration between Centers for Disease Control, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation that ran from 2016-2019, and was replaced in 2020 by the [https://www.cdc.gov/places/index.html Places project].