Identifiers

ID herop-pnlslp
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Descriptive

Title Structural Racism and Discrimination Index
Alternative Title + ['SRD Index']
Description + ['The index assigns a national and a state score to each county by combining indicators of racial discrimination against Black communities across five key dimensions: residential segregation, housing, income, healthcare, and the criminal justice system.']
Language + ['eng']
Display Note + []

SDOH Place Project

Spatial Resolution + ['County', 'State', 'Other']
Highlight IDs + ['']
Spatial Resolution Note None
Methods Variables + ['Racial Concentration', 'Racial Diversity', 'Home-Mortgage Loan Denial Gap', 'Home Ownership Gap', 'Median Household Income Gap', 'Unemployment Gap', 'Below-Poverty Gap', 'Primary Care', 'Mental Health Care', 'Dental Health Care', 'Health Uninsurance Gap', 'Violent Crime Arrests Gap', 'Property Crime Arrests Gap', 'Incarceration Gap', 'Homicide Fatalities Gap', 'Firearm Fatalities Gap']
Data Variables + ['2-Digit FIPS Code', '5-Digit FIPS Code', 'County Name', 'State/Territory Name', 'Rural-Urban Continuum Code (RUCC)', 'Year', 'Number of Black population', 'Number of White population', 'Percentage of Black population', 'Percentage of White population', 'Index of Concentration at the Extremes for Race', 'Entropy', 'Gap in Loan Non-Origination between Black/African American & White applicants', 'Gap in Homeowership between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Median Household Income between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Unemployment between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Below Poverty Rate between Black/African American & White populations', 'Rate of total Primary Care Providers per 100,000 populations (all races)', 'Rate of total Mental Health Care Providers per 100,000 populations (all races)', 'Rate of total Dental Health Care Providers per 100,000 populations (all races)', 'Gap in Uninsurance between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Arrests for Violent Crime between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Arrests for Property Crime between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Incarceration Rates between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Homicide-related Deaths between Black/African American & White populations', 'Gap in Firearm-related Deaths between Black/African American & White populations', 'National level z-score', 'National level composite z-score for Segregation Dimension', 'National-level composite z-score for Housing Dimension', 'National-level composite z-score for Income Dimension', 'National-level composite z-score for Healthcare Resources Dimension', 'National-level composite z-score for Crime and Incarceration Dimension', 'National-level overall composite z-score of all 5 dimensions', 'National-level score based on percentile ranking', 'State-leve z-score', 'State-level composite z-score', '1 = Metro - Counties in metro areas of 1 million population or more', '2 = Metro - Counties in metro areas of 250,000 to 1 million population', '3 = Metro - Counties in metro areas of fewer than 250,000 population', '4 = Nonmetro - Urban population of 20,000 or more, adjacent to a metro area', '5 = Nonmetro - Urban population of 20,000 or more, not adjacent to a metro area', '6 = Nonmetro - Urban population of 5,000 to 20,000, adjacent to a metro area', '7 = Nonmetro - Urban population of 5,000 to 20,000, not adjacent to a metro area', '8 = Nonmetro - Urban population of fewer than 5,000, adjacent to a metro area', '9 = Nonmetro - Urban population of fewer than 5,000, not adjacent to a metro area']
Featured Variable(s) + ['SRD Score']
Preferred Citation
show full (this value is very long) Debarchana Ghosh, Sabina Bhandari, and Cheryl Knott. A Measure for Place-Based Structural Racism and Discrimination Over Time: Version 1.0 SRD Index. 2025.
Data Usage Notes None

Credits

Creator + ['Dr. Debarchana (Debs) Ghosh', 'Sabina Bhandari', 'Dr. Cheryl Knott']
Publisher + ['University of Connecticut', 'University of Maryland']
Provider None

Categories

Resource Class + ['Datasets', 'Websites']
Resource Type + ['Census data', 'Table data']
Subject + ['Demographics', 'Economic Stability', 'Health and Healthcare', 'Housing', 'Safety', 'Social and Community Context', 'Composite Index']
Theme + []
Keyword + Structural Racism Discrimination SRI Index Residential Segregation Housing Income Healthcare Resources Crime and Incarceration

Temporal

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Date Issued None
Index Year + [1990, 2000, 2010, 2020]
Date Range + []

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Georeferenced False

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Access Rights Public
References {'http://schema.org/url': 'https://structuralracism.research.uconn.edu'}
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Admin

Modified 2025-07-23T23:15:59Z
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