Equity in Data Community of Practice (Feb 2024): Small Populations

Striving for informed decision-making across Connecticut, we empower an ecosystem of data users by democratizing access to public data and building data literacy.

Connecticut Data Collaborative

Join our community this month to discuss how to work with and use data equitably.

This session will focus on finding and using data on small geographic areas and small populations, including what products are available, the level of demographic detail possible, and issues and tradeoffs when dealing with this kind of data. The session will start off with an overview of issues and developments in small area and small group data, followed by a walkthrough of some real-world examples that include considerations you often have to make as the data user such as what margins of error (MOEs) are acceptable and how representative the data are to your population. Finally, we will open up for discussion, at which point the audience is welcome to ask questions to the speaker or group as a whole, or bring up any issues or concerns they have when working with small group data. About this group:We are a group of data users in Connecticut who are supporting one another as we work toward more equitable data practices. We focus on racial equity explicitly but not exclusively.Some of the topics we talk about include:<ul><li>How can we make sure we don't make certain groups invisible through how we disaggregate our data?</li><li>How can we learn to focus our attention on the strengths, rather than the deficits, of groups we are seeking to serve or support?</li><li>How can we learn from the people who we hope will benefit from our products or services about what their data means to them?</li><li>How can we help the institutions that we are part of to be trustworthy so that people will trust us with their information/data?</li></ul>You can <a href="https://www.ctdata.org/blog/category/Community+of+Practice" title="https://www.ctdata.org/blog/category/Community+of+Practice" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">read more about our past events here</a>.Please feel free to check out the group. And if it is helpful, please share it!

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