Claude Pepper Center is developing interactive maps and dashboards that integrate data related to behavior, occupation, health, and economy in the State of Florida. These tools allow users to compare and contrast variables from Florida populations with other regions across the United States. The main focus of our work is age and aging, and how they interact with health and policy. Our maps and dashboards are constantly updated with the latest public data from authoritative sources, including our own peer-reviewed research.
Our maps and dashboards are based on Esri ArcGIS and Microsoft Power BI. We have simplified, curated, and arranged the data to fit the requirements of those platforms. Statistical estimates and geographic areas derived from our products may differ significantly from the source data. Please contact us to learn more about how our data operations may affect your interpretation of the results as seen in our maps and dashboards.
The Translational Data Platform was officially launched on March 4, 2025. Read our press release.
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Strategic Aims and Impact
Funding Allocation
Our maps and dashboards aim to make complex data accessible and interactive. County and state leaders can enhance their decision making with our visual tools. They can examine the needs of aging Floridians in a new format beyond what was previously possible with raw data or static reports. By combining information about current funding, family income, expenditures, and needs, decision makers can discover patterns of resource use that can be optimized with targeted allocation.
Direct Information
Most of our products are designed to be accessible to regular Florida residents. Our impact to Floridians of all ages is shown by the wealth of resources that are presented in an interactive and visual format, showing government institutions and private providers of various services close to their own home.
Education about Issues
We are building products that are relevant to Florida communities, on topics that influence the health and well-being of all. We integrate data related to behavior, employment, health, and economy, revealing social patterns that should be discussed at the local level. For example, our maps can reveal areas of the State where aging populations may require additional support, funding, or intervention. We want our maps and dashboards to inform local debates and legislation about these issues.
Family Choices
We want to empower families and people of all ages with their decision process about where to live in Florida, what issues to advocate for, what businesses to contact, where to volunteer, where to work, and where can they make the most impact. The well-being of Florida families depends not only on being able to access resources, but also on where and how they can be of help to others. Our maps and dashboards can empower current and future populations to decide how best to care for the important people and issues in their lives.
TDP Steering Committee
Fabio Correa, MSc
Claude Pepper Center
Expertise: Data analysis, web design, geographic information systems
Dawn C. Carr, PhD MGSA MGS
Department of Sociology & Claude Pepper Center
Expertise: Gerontology, aging policy, healthy aging
Caitria DeLucchi, MS
Claude Pepper Center
Expertise: Population data trends, policy translation
Amber DeJohn, PhD
Department of Geography & Spatial Data Science Center
Expertise: Built environments, migration, healthy aging
Matthew Brooks, PhD
Department of Sociology & Center for Demography and Population Health
Expertise: Demographic change, rural areas, poverty
Miles Taylor, PhD MGSA
Department of Sociology & Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Expertise: Complex population-level modeling, demographic differences,
Rebekah Carpenter, MS
Department of Sociology & Claude Pepper Center
Expertise: Older workers, complex data linkages,
Shekhar Chauhan, PhD
Claude Pepper Center
Expertise: Mental Health, International Comparisons, Gerontology
Katy (Qiuchang) Cao, Ph.D., MSW
College of Social Work & Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Expertise: Age-Friendly Communities, Psychosocial Environments, Productive Aging
Topical dashboards: Exploring individual issues
Veterans in the United States
These previews explore estimates for the nation’s veterans from the American Community Survey (ACS), provided by the US Census Bureau.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards for veterans in the State of Florida and beyond, based on the American Community Survey for years 2018-2022.
Aging-related resources in Florida
These pages explore aging and health-related resources (e.g., healthcare, homemaker services) in Florida. These resources can be filtered by industry, county, or city and include the name and address of each resource.
Click here to preview our maps of licensed adult care facilities in the State of Florida for 2024.
Click here to preview our maps of aging-related resources in the State of Florida for 2023.
General population vulnerability Index (GPVI)
This is a preview of the General Population Vulnerability Index (LSI), a statistical tool to illustrate the social needs of people of all ages as indicated by poverty, minority status, living alone, and living in areas with relatively few service providers.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards of the General population vulnerability Index (GPVI) in the State of Florida and beyond, based on the American Community Survey for years 2015-2019 and the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) for year 2017.
Generational Connectivity Index (GII)
This is a preview of the Generational Connectivity Index (GCI), a statistical tool to visualize potential interactions between people from different age groups, as a proportion of all possible interactions in the population. These maps and dashboards explore the GCI using data from the 2018-2022 American Community Survey.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards of the Generational Connectivity Index in the State of Florida and beyond, based on the American Community Survey for years 2018-2022.
Later Life Social Isolation Risk Index (LSRI)
The Later Life Social Isolation Risk Index is a new instrument to highlight geographic areas where the most vulnerable population is located, as a combination of age, disability, living alone, and lacking access to aging and disability service providers.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards of the Later Life Social Isolation Risk Index (LSRI) in the State of Florida and beyond, based on the American Community Survey for years 2018-2022 and the County Business Patterns (CBP) data for year 2022.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards of the Later Life Social Isolation Risk Index (LSRI) in the State of Florida and beyond, based on the American Community Survey for years 2015-2019 and the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) for year 2017.
Maps and Dashboards for Demographic Exploration
U.S. Census Bureau – American Community Survey (ACS)
The American Community Survey is a U.S. Census Bureau program that helps understand changes in demographic, economic, educational, and other aspects of people in the US territory. ACS data is commonly used by government, private, and nonprofit institutions to allocate funding, debate policy issues, and plan for emergencies.
The data for these maps and dashboards has been curated and harmonized by the IPUMS USA program.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards for 2018-2022 ACS.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards for 2017-2021 ACS.
U.S. Census Bureau – Current Population Survey (CPS)
The Current Population Survey is a monthly survey of households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The main purpose of the CPS is providing data for the estimation of the national unemployment rate, persons in and out of the labor force, workloads, work-related income, and other employment statistics for the population of the United States.
Here is a preview of our maps and dashboards exploring data from the 2023 Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), provided by IPUMS-CPS. ASEC collects additional information on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and immigration.
The data for these maps and dashboards has been curated and harmonized by the IPUMS CPS program.
Click here to visit the maps and dashboards for the 2023 Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) supplement to the CPS.