With the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk in still in the news I thought I would take a look at his organization Turning Point USA in the Alleghenies. According to their map of chapters there are 27 chapters in the region. Of these, 18 are on college campuses, 5 are in high schools and 4 […]
When looking at the Unmet Need Score (UNS) from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) data tool, Downtown Johnstown (zip code 15901) had the highest UNS in Pennsylvania of 96.07 out of a possible 100. The UNS is a composite of 33 statistics. These statistics are in the table below for the 15901 zip […]
Last week I posted on 2 factor analyses of the health resources and services administration’s unmet need score map tool for zip codes in the Alleghenies and Pennsylvania as a whole. There were minimal differences between the regions on the two largest factors (health behaviors and mortality). For this post I am taking a look […]
I have looked at Unmet Need Scores (UNS) in Pennsylvania and the Alleghenies. The UNS is a composite of dozens of related health, social and economic variables. Teasing apart the relationships among the variables one by one is tricky. There is a method that allows for identifying clusters of highly correlated variables called factor analysis. […]
Last Saturday I went to the Rage Against the Regime protest in downtown Johnstown. I interviewed some of the participants in the video above. Groups like Indivisible organized the rally. Previously I posted on the unmet need score (UNS) for 708 zip codes in the Alleghenies. These zip codes are seen in the map below. […]
I have looked at County Health Rankings variables in Pennsylvania correlating them with Trump’s vote at the county level. This time I am looking at the Health Resources and Services Administration Unmet Need Score online tool. You can see where your zip code stands at this tool. This tool provides health data at the zip […]
Much has been made of Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and the passage of the so called Big Beautiful Bill. Subsequently, It usually takes a week or so before events like these register in the polls. It generally takes a few days to conduct them and they are expensive. Often the news media […]
This is the last in the series of County Health Rankings and Trump’s Vote in PA. Accordingly, this post looks at the “Percentage of population identifying as non-Hispanic white. The 2025 Annual Data Release used data from 2023 for this measure.” The question is how does this predict Trump’s vote in Pennsylvania? Altogether the multiple […]
This is the sixth installment in my series on Trump’s vote in PA and County Health Rankings (CHR). This post focuses on Census participation at the county level. It is defined as “Percentage of all households that self-responded to the 2020 census (by internet, paper questionnaire or telephone).” This measures civic engagement. Census participation and […]
This is the 5th post in my series on County Health Rankings variables and Trump’s vote in Pennsylvania. Previously, I posted on the univariate relationship between some college, median income, and Trump’s vote in Pennsylvania counties. When I entered these and other variables into a multiple regression model, median income fell out of the model. […]
