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Pittsburgh Equity Indicators

A Baseline Measurement for Enhancing Equity in Pittsburgh

Published in: Pittsburgh Equity Indicators (2017)

Posted on RAND.org on April 24, 2019

by Linnea Warren May, Serafina Lanna, Jordan R. Fischbach, Michelle Bongard, Shelly Culbertson, Rebecca Kiernan, Grant Ervin, Victoria Lawson, Elizabeth DeWolf, Jocelyn Drummond, et al.

This report presents the 2017 equality scores for Pittsburgh. Section 2 describes the process of developing the Equity Indicators framework and introduces the indicators and data sources, including the rationale for selecting these measures. Section 3 reviews the results for calendar year 2017 and discusses the local context and relevance of these results. This analysis will be repeated for calendar year 2018, including changes in scores, to begin to see trends and their links to changes in the city overtime.

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