Regional Equity Atlas II Indicators

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Measuring what matters is important. It is a necessary ingredient for building sustainable and just communities. The indicators we use to measure the things we care about play two critical roles in community change -- they identify priorities for action and they assess the results of that action. The process of selecting community indicators -- who chooses, how they choose, what they choose -- is as important as the data selected. This is especially critical when considering indicators of equity because fair and meaningful participation by all communities is central to what defines equity.

When we initiated the Regional Equity Atlas Project in 2003, we began by asking the community what indicators and data would best meet their needs for advancing equity as we work for sustainable communities. Your input in response to these questions shaped the Regional Equity Atlas, which mapped equity conditions and changes in these conditions in the Portland-Vancouver region between 1990-2000.

Coalition for a Livable Future, Portland State University Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies and other partners are beginning work to develop the next iteration of the Regional Equity Atlas when the 2010 Census data begins to be available in 2011-12. Starting with the ideas you shared with us to create the first Equity Atlas, and your responses to it, we would like to gather your input on priorities for equity indicators to be included in the next one.

We deeply value your time in providing direction and sharing priorities, however, we can’t promise to include everything you hope and want to see in the next Atlas. Resources – financial, data, and technological – are all barriers to delivering fully on our collective vision for our region's equity atlas. But, we promise to do our best. Also, if your organization is doing work that provides more information about regional equity conditions, and that might fit into the Equity Atlas, please let us know by contacting Dianne Riley at dianne@clfuture.org. We would be happy to post it on our equityatlas.org website.

This survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. The indicator descriptions are pretty rough and are supposed to give you the general idea of what we are looking at so keep this in mind as you review them. We understand that you may not have the full 30 minutes to complete this survey, so feel free to skip topics that you are less knowledgeable about and focus on your areas of expertise and interest. The topics are organized as follows:

Page 2: General Community Demographics
Page 3: Housing
Page 4: Food Access
Page 5: Parks/Trails/Natural Areas
Page 6: Transportation
Page 7: Economic
Page 8: Wealth and Public Investment
Page 9: Public Participation
Page 10: Social & Human Services
Page 11: Schools
Page 12: Health and Disease Prevalence
Page 13: Respondent Demographic Information

Thank you for your time and valuable input.