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New findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show your zip code could be a critical factor for your health and longevity - even more important than your genetic code.
For example, geographic analysis of health care data from North Carolina showed that just over 40% of the records contained errors of some sort in the geographic information (city, county, or zip code), errors that would have gone undetected without the visual displays provided by GIS. [3]
Rank Designation ZCTA Population Per Capita Income 1 Montchanin, Delaware [2]: 19710 68 654,485 2 Houston, Texas: 77010 76 283,189 3 Rockland, Delaware [3]: 19732
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community Survey [1] datasets.
The National Health Survey had been created within PHS in 1956 through the National Health Survey Act (Pub. L. 84–652); it was the successor to a seminal national health survey performed by the Works Progress Administration during 1935–1936, which had multiple supplemental studies carried out in the intervening decades. [1]
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An enlargeable map of the 124 combined statistical areas (CSAs) of the United States as of 2006. A core-based statistical area (CBSA) is a U.S. geographic area defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Names; All geographical identifiers smaller than a state, except for the initial three digits of a zip code if, according to the current publicly available data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census: the geographic unit formed by combining all zip codes with the same three initial digits contains more than 20,000 people; the initial three digits of a zip code for all such geographic units ...