National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Broadband Internet Access by Census Tract, United States, 2014-2018

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Philippa Clarke, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Iris Gomez-Lopez, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research; Mao Li, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research; Megan Chenoweth, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research

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Project Citation: 

Clarke, Philippa, Gomez-Lopez, Iris, Li, Mao, and Chenoweth, Megan. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Broadband Internet Access by Census Tract, United States, 2014-2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-02-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117866V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset contains measures of broadband internet access and usage per United States census tract in 2014 through 2018. The data is derived from internet service providers’ Form 477 reports to the Federal Communications Commission. Key variables include the average upload and download speed of fixed broadband connections, the number of internet service providers, and the number of actual connections per 1000 households.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (RF1-AG-057540); United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Community Living. National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (90RTHF0001)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms internet access; broadband; access to information
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2014 – 2018
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2020 – 2020
Universe:  View help for Universe All census tracts in the United States, US island territories, and possessions.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Data on broadband connection speed is taken from the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Data reports from December 2014-December 2018 (FCC 2020). For each year, we used the most recent published version of the data available, e.g. December 2014 v3, December 2015 v4, etc.

Data on the number of residential fixed-speed connections per 1000 households comes from the FCC’s maps of residential fixed connections by census tract. Downloadable data were available from 2015 through 2017 (FCC 2016a, FCC 2016b, FCC 2018, FCC 2019).
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation census tract
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit census tract

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