dl9ea5foy.json

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      "title": "Place of birth among immigrants in the Greater Boston region",
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      "shortDescription": "Total population foreign-born aggregated to the Census tract level; geography covers Greater Boston region; time period covers 2016-2020 as a five-year average",
        "fullDescription": "This data represents the foreign-born population living in the Greater Boston region. The data originates from the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Downloaded from the Census data aggregator NHGIS, this dataset displays American Community Survey estimates (2016-2020) for foreign-born population by Census tract across the Greater Boston area, defined as all cities and towns in the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission's Inner Core Committee. \n \n Field names in this dataset are opaque and can be parsed with the codebook.  \n \n This dataset is part of the LMEC's [Cartography Challenges](https://leventhalmap.org/projects/cartography-challenge).",
      "keyAttributes": ["Immigration", "Census", "American Community Survey", "Cartography Challenges"],
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      "accessCondition": "CC-By Attribution 4.0 International. Please cite NHGIS appropriately: https://www.nhgis.org/citation-and-use-nhgis-data"
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        "accessURL": "https://s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com/public-geospatial/dl9ea5foy/place-of-birth-greater-boston.geojson",
        "title": "Place of birth among immigrants in the Greater Boston region GeoJSON",
        "source": "Ian Spangler",
        "format": "GeoJSON"
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        "accessURL": "https://s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com/public-geospatial/dl9ea5foy/place-of-birth-greater-boston.zip",
        "title": "Place of birth among immigrants in the Greater Boston region zipped shapefile",
        "source": "Ian Spangler",
        "format": "Zipped Shapefile"
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        "title": "Place of birth among immigrants in the Greater Boston region CSV",
        "source": "Ian Spangler",
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            "subjectTag": "Emigration and immigration"
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        "placeTag": "Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area"
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      "temporal": {
        "temporalNotes": "This data represents estimates for 2016-2020.",
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          "valueType": "range",
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          "rangeEnd": "2020"
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            "notes": "Census tract geography from NHGIS was joined with Census tract tabular data from NHGIS"
        }]
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          "name": "Ian Spangler",
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      "maintenance": {
        "officialMaintainer": "Ian Spangler",
        "maintenanceFrequency": "The dataset is never updated"
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        "steps": "1. Downloaded Census tract-level data for the data point `place of birth` within the Census-designated universe `foreign-born population` from NHGIS\n2. In QGIS, tabular and spatial data were joined using the NHGIS field `GISJOIN`\n3. An additional field was added describing total population per Census tract\n4. All spatial and tabular data exceeding the MAPC ICC area, as well as irrelevant data fields, were manually removed"
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        "title": "Place of birth among immigrants in the Greater Boston region codebook",
        "maintainedBy": "Ian Spangler",
        "notes": "Lightly edited version of the default codebook generated by NHGIS data downloads."
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