National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Broadband Internet Availability, Speed, and Adoption by Census Tract, United States, 2014-2020

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

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Project Citation:

Li, Mao, Gomez-Lopez, Iris, Khan, Anam, Clarke, Philippa, and Chenoweth, Megan. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Broadband Internet Availability, Speed, and Adoption by Census Tract, United States, 2014-2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-10-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117866V2

Project Description

Summary: This dataset contains measures of broadband internet availability, speed, and adoption per United States census tract in 2014 through 2020. 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.

A curated version of this data is available through ICPSR at http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38567.v1

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: internet access; broadband; access to information

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2014 – 2020

Collection Date(s): 2021 – 2021

Universe: All census tracts in the United States, US island territories, and possessions.

Data Type(s): aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source: Data on broadband connection speed is taken from the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Data reports from December 2014-June 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 2018.

Unit(s) of Observation: census tract

Geographic Unit: census tract

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