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  • County Business Patterns (CBP)

    Alternate Title(s)
    CBP Datasets
    Description

    The data includes, for each designated geographic area, employment and payroll data organized by NAICS. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is used by the United States, Canada, and Mexico to classify businesses by industry. "This data is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for other statistical series,...

    Subject
    Economics
    Access Rights
    Unrestricted access
    Local Experts
    Eberechukwu Onukwugha
  • UMB Dataset

    Amish Complex Genetic Disease Database

    Description

    The Amish Research Group of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been studying the Old Order Amish population in Lancaster County, PA, since 1993. This database currently consists of health-related data on over 7,000 adults resulting from studies ranging from population and basic science to clinical and translational research. Areas of investigation include: Cardiovascular Risk, Diabetes,...

    Subject
    Amish
    Ethnic Groups/genetics
    Genetics, Population
    Health Status Indicators
    Access Rights
    Approval required
    Local Experts
    Alan R. Shuldiner
    Braxton C. Mitchell
  • UMB Dataset

    Comparison of Mortality and Hospital Utilization Patterns Between Old Order Amish and Non-Amish Caucasians

    Authors
    Braxton C. Mitchell
    Magdalena I. Tolea
    Kelsey Shields
    Laurence S. Magder
    4 more author(s)...
    Description

    This dataset consists of comparisons of mortality and hospital discharge rates/diagnoses between Old Order Amish (OOA) living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and non-Amish Caucasians. The Anabaptist Genealogy Database Version 5 (AGDB5) and the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) were utilized for the mortality statistics for each cohort, respectively. Additionally, OOA health-related data were collected...

    Subject
    Amish
    Hospitals/utilization
    Longevity