2016 Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Data for Pennsylvania from the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5 Year Estimates at the Block Group level ##Redistricting Data Hub (RDH) Retrieval Date 04/07/21 ##Sources CVAP Data retrieved from the Census Citizen Voting Age Population by Race and Ethnicity website: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/voting-rights/cvap.2016.html ##Fields Field Name Description 0 GEOID Unique Identifier 1 NAME Full Geographic Name of the Block Group 2 STATE Name of the State 3 COUNTY Name of the County 4 C_TOT16 Citizen Estimate for Total 5 CTOTMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Total 6 C_NHS16 Citizen Estimate for Not Hispanic or Latino 7 CNHSMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Not Hispanic or Latino 8 C_AIA16 Citizen Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native Alone or In Combination 9 CAIAMOE Citizen Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native Alone or In Combination 10 C_ASN16 Citizen Estimate for Asian Alone or In Combination 11 CASNMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Asian Alone or In Combination 12 C_BLK16 Citizen Estimate for Black or African American Alone or In Combination 13 CBLKMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Black or African American Alone or In Combination 14 C_NHP16 Citizen Estimate for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone 15 CNHPMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone 16 C_WHT16 Citizen Estimate for White Alone 17 CWHTMOE Citizen Margin of Error for White Alone 18 C_AIW16 Citizen Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native and White 19 CAIWMOE Citizen Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native and White 20 C_ASW16 Citizen Estimate for Asian and White 21 CASWMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Asian and White 22 C_BLW16 Citizen Estimate for Black or African American and White 23 CBLWMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Black or African American and White 24 C_AIB16 Citizen Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black or African American 25 CAIBMOE Citizen Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black or African American 26 C_2OM16 Citizen Estimate for Remainder of Two or More Race Responses 27 C2OMMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Remainder of Two or More Race Responses 28 C_HSP16 Citizen Estimate for Hispanic or Latino 29 CHSPMOE Citizen Margin of Error for Hispanic or Latino 30 CVAP_TOT16 CVAP Estimate for Total 31 CVAPTOTMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Total 32 CVAP_NHS16 CVAP Estimate for Not Hispanic or Latino 33 CVAPNHSMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Not Hispanic or Latino 34 CVAP_AIA16 CVAP Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native Alone or In Combination 35 CVAPAIAMOE CVAP Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native Alone or In Combination 36 CVAP_ASN16 CVAP Estimate for Asian Alone or In Combination 37 CVAPASNMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Asian Alone or In Combination 38 CVAP_BLK16 CVAP Estimate for Black or African American Alone or In Combination 39 CVAPBLKMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Black or African American Alone or In Combination 40 CVAP_NHP16 CVAP Estimate for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone 41 CVAPNHPMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone 42 CVAP_WHT16 CVAP Estimate for White Alone 43 CVAPWHTMOE CVAP Margin of Error for White Alone 44 CVAP_AIW16 CVAP Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native and White 45 CVAPAIWMOE CVAP Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native and White 46 CVAP_ASW16 CVAP Estimate for Asian and White 47 CVAPASWMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Asian and White 48 CVAP_BLW16 CVAP Estimate for Black or African American and White 49 CVAPBLWMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Black or African American and White 50 CVAP_AIB16 CVAP Estimate for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black or African American 51 CVAPAIBMOE CVAP Margin of Error for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black or African American 52 CVAP_2OM16 CVAP Estimate for Remainder of Two or More Race Responses 53 CVAP2OMMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Remainder of Two or More Race Responses 54 CVAP_HSP16 CVAP Estimate for Hispanic or Latino 55 CVAPHSPMOE CVAP Margin of Error for Hispanic or Latino 56 STATEFP State FIPS Code 57 COUNTYFP County FIPS Code 58 TRACTCE Tract Code 59 BLKGRPCE Block Group Code ##Processing CVAP data for Pennsylvania was retrieved with a python script from the Census. The data is available nationally for the Block Group. To extract the data for Pennsylvania the national data was grouped by state and then extracted to a new file for each state. The data was pivoted from narrow to wide data based on GEOIDs so that one row is one Block Group, and each field represents either an estimate or margin of error for a particular racial/ethnic category. The fields were renamed to fit character length requirements. The CSV was zipped into a folder with supporting files, ACS documentation, and this README. Processing was primarily completed using the pandas library. To improve the usefulness of the data, we have modified three categories to correspond with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) racial categories. The "Alone" categories for American Indian or Alaska Native (fields with "AIA"), Asian (fields with "ASN"), and Black or African American (fields with "BLK") represent an encompassing racial category that is inclusive of all categories that include that race. For example, CVAP_AIA16 would be the sum of the original "Alone" CVAP_AIA16, CVAP_AIB16, and CVAP_AIW16. For CVAP_BLK16, the field would be the sum of the original CVAP_BLK16, CVAP_AIB16, and CVAP_BLW16. For CVAP_ASN16, the field would be the sum of the original CVAP_ASN16 and CVAP_ASW16 These fields are also noted in the description as being "Alone or In Combination". No other estimate categories were modified. For the estimates that were modified to fit OMB racial/ethnic categories, we also modified the Margins of Error as well. To create the new MOEs for the derived estimates, we summed the square root of each MOE for the necessary fields. The fields that are represented with these modified MOEs correspond to the modified racial categories described above. They are rounded to the nearest integer. For more information on OMB racial categories, please see this link: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/bulletins_b00-02/#n_1_ All of the racial estimates provided are Non-Hispanic. Breakdowns for Hispanic/Non-Hispanic by race are not provided in the CVAP special tabulation. Null values or empty cells in the CSV file retrieved from the Census are assigned the value -999999. ##Additional Notes For more information on the ACS CVAP documentation please refer to the ACS link above in Sources as well as the ACS technical documentation included in this folder (also available at this link: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/rdo/technical-documentation/special-tabulation/CVAP_2012-2016_ACS_documentation.pdf ). Please direct questions related to processing this dataset to info@redistrictingdatahub.org.