Data Documentation

Public Data Sources

EconomicStabilityIQ relies on public, reproducible datasets. This page shows the active published annual and Pulse releases, including metric coverage, observed years, and cases where a release-lagged source is carried into a later scoring target year.

Published source snapshot Sep 7, 2026

Source Snapshot

Current Public Data Spine

Methodology

Locations

34,513

52 states, 3,207 counties, and 31,254 cities.

Core Metrics

Metrics mapped to Employment, Income, Industry, and Population stability.

Score Snapshot

2024

v2 across 3,179 locations.

Score Updated

Sep 7, 2026

31,639 stored snapshots.

Active Source Systems

ACS

American Community Survey

Official

Cadence: Annual
Target Years: 2024
Latest Source Year: 2024
Metrics: 4
Last Write Rows: 126,556
Last Write: Sep 7, 2026

Labor-force participation, inflation-adjusted median household income, poverty, and 5-year population-change inputs.

Annual state and county inputs only; city pages do not receive an annual Combined Score.

BLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official

Cadence: Quarterly QCEW Pulse; annual labor input where eligible
Target Years: 2024
Latest Source Year: 2099
Metrics: 1
Last Write Rows: 38,157
Last Write: Sep 7, 2026

Employment health and the current covered-employment and average-weekly-wage Pulse.

State and county Pulse coverage is gated separately for jobs and earnings; city jobs data is parent-county context.

CENSUS

Census Population Estimates and County Business Patterns

Official

Core Metric Inventory

Metric rows expose both the scoring target year and the underlying source year when those differ.

Metric	Signal	Source	Dataset	Target Year	Latest Source	Notes
Industry Diversity Index industry_diversity_index	Industry Diversification	CENSUS	Census County Business Patterns	2015-2024	2023	Source 2023 carried into target 2024
Labor Force Participation Rate labor_force_participation_rate	Employment Health	ACS	ACS	2015-2024	2024	Direct source-year alignment
Median Household Income (2024 dollars) median_household_income_2024	Income Stability	ACS	ACS B19013, rebased to 2024 dollars	2015-2024	2024	Direct source-year alignment
Net Domestic Migration Rate net_domestic_migration_rate	Population Stability	IRS	IRS Migration	2015-2024

Data Quality And Reproducibility

Source records keep original source keys and source URLs where the upstream dataset provides them.
City Population Pulse values appear only after a unique incorporated-place Census match and a matching 2025 PEP record. Other city pages use explicitly named parent-county context rather than a proxy city estimate or score.
Release-lagged sources are shown with separate source and target years instead of being hidden inside the score.
Operational ingestion runs remain available through the protected status monitor for deployment health checks.

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Active Source Systems

ACS

American Community Survey

Official

Cadence: Annual
Target Years: 2024
Latest Source Year: 2024
Metrics: 4
Last Write Rows: 126,556
Last Write: Sep 7, 2026

Labor-force participation, inflation-adjusted median household income, poverty, and 5-year population-change inputs.

Annual state and county inputs only; city pages do not receive an annual Combined Score.

BLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official

Cadence: Quarterly QCEW Pulse; annual labor input where eligible
Target Years: 2024
Latest Source Year: 2099
Metrics: 1
Last Write Rows: 38,157
Last Write: Sep 7, 2026

Employment health and the current covered-employment and average-weekly-wage Pulse.

State and county Pulse coverage is gated separately for jobs and earnings; city jobs data is parent-county context.

CENSUS

Census Population Estimates and County Business Patterns

Official

Core Metric Inventory

Metric rows expose both the scoring target year and the underlying source year when those differ.

Metric	Signal	Source	Dataset	Target Year	Latest Source	Notes
Industry Diversity Index industry_diversity_index	Industry Diversification	CENSUS	Census County Business Patterns	2015-2024	2023	Source 2023 carried into target 2024
Labor Force Participation Rate labor_force_participation_rate	Employment Health	ACS	ACS	2015-2024	2024	Direct source-year alignment
Median Household Income (2024 dollars) median_household_income_2024	Income Stability	ACS	ACS B19013, rebased to 2024 dollars	2015-2024	2024	Direct source-year alignment
Net Domestic Migration Rate net_domestic_migration_rate	Population Stability	IRS	IRS Migration	2015-2024

Data Quality And Reproducibility

Source records keep original source keys and source URLs where the upstream dataset provides them.

City Population Pulse values appear only after a unique incorporated-place Census match and a matching 2025 PEP record. Other city pages use explicitly named parent-county context rather than a proxy city estimate or score.

Release-lagged sources are shown with separate source and target years instead of being hidden inside the score.

Operational ingestion runs remain available through the protected status monitor for deployment health checks.

Public Data Sources

Current Public Data Spine

Active Source Systems

American Community Survey

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Census Population Estimates and County Business Patterns

Core Metric Inventory

Data Quality And Reproducibility

Related Location Context

Public Data Sources

Current Public Data Spine

Active Source Systems

American Community Survey

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Census Population Estimates and County Business Patterns

Core Metric Inventory

Data Quality And Reproducibility

Related Location Context

IRS Migration Data

Bureau of Economic Analysis