2021 Limited English Proficiency (LEP) for the DVRPC Region Public Use Microdata Areas

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) is committed to upholding the principles and intentions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and related nondiscrimination statutes in all of the Commission’s work, including publications, products, communications, public input, and decision-making processes. Language barriers may prohibit people who are Limited in English Proficiency (also known as LEP persons) from obtaining services, information, or participating in public planning processes. To better identify LEP populations and thoroughly evaluate the Commission’s efforts to provide meaningful access, DVRPC has produced this Limited-English Proficiency Plan. This is the data that was used to make the maps for the upcoming plan.Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), are geographies of at least 100,000 people that are nested within states or equivalent entities. States are able to delineate PUMAs within their borders, or use PUMA Criteria provided by the Census Bureau.Census tables used to gather data from the 2017- 2021 American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesACS 2016-2020, Table B16001: Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over. ACS data are derived from a survey and are subject to sampling variablity.*Limited English Proficiency (LEP) refers to those persons that speak English less than "very well". DVRPC has mapped the below Language Groups for our Plan.SpanishRussianChineseKoreanVietnameseSource of PUMA boundaries: US Census Bureau. The TIGER/Line Files Please refer to U:_OngoingProjects\LEP\ACS_5YR_B16001_PUMAs_metadata.xlsx for full attribute loop up and fields used in making the DVRPC LEP Map Series.Please contact Chris Pollard (cpollard@dvrpc.org) should you have any questions about this dataset.

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Data Dictionary

Column Type Label Description
objectid OID objectid Internal feature number.
estimatetotal Integer estimatetotal
speak_only_english Integer speak_only_english
spanish Integer spanish
spanish_w Integer spanish_w
spanish_lim Integer spanish_lim
french_haitian_or_cajun Integer french_haitian_or_cajun
french_haitian_or_cajun_w Integer french_haitian_or_cajun_w
french_haitian_or_cajun_lim Integer french_haitian_or_cajun_lim
german_or_other_west_germanic_languages Integer german_or_other_west_germanic_languages
german_or_other_west_germanic_languages_w Integer german_or_other_west_germanic_languages_w
german_or_other_west_germanic_languages_lim Integer german_or_other_west_germanic_languages_lim
russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages Integer russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages
russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages_w Integer russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages_w
russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages_lim Integer russian_polish_or_other_slavic_languages_lim
other_indo_european_languages Integer other_indo_european_languages
other_indo_european_languages_w Integer other_indo_european_languages_w
other_indo_european_languages_lim Integer other_indo_european_languages_lim
korean Integer korean
korean_w Integer korean_w
korean_lim Integer korean_lim
chinese_mandarin_cantonese Integer chinese_mandarin_cantonese
chinese_mandarin_cantonese_w Integer chinese_mandarin_cantonese_w
chinese_mandarin_cantonese_lim Integer chinese_mandarin_cantonese_lim
vietnamese Integer vietnamese
vietnamese_w Integer vietnamese_w
vietnamese_lim Integer vietnamese_lim
tagalog_filipino Integer tagalog_filipino
tagalog_filipino_w Integer tagalog_filipino_w
tagalog_filipino_lim Integer tagalog_filipino_lim
other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages Integer other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages
other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages_w Integer other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages_w
other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages_lim Integer other_asian_and_pacific_island_languages_lim
arabic Integer arabic
arabic_w Integer arabic_w
arabic_lim Integer arabic_lim
other_and_unspecified_languages Integer other_and_unspecified_languages
other_and_unspecified_languages_w Integer other_and_unspecified_languages_w
other_and_unspecified_languages_lim Integer other_and_unspecified_languages_lim
geography String geography
state Integer state
public_use_microdata_area Integer public_use_microdata_area
tt_pop_lep_e Integer tt_pop_lep_e
splime_5p Integer splime_5p
frlime_5p Integer frlime_5p
gelime_5p Integer gelime_5p
rulime_5p Integer rulime_5p
inlime_5p Integer inlime_5p
kolime_5p Integer kolime_5p
chlime_5p Integer chlime_5p
vilime_5p Integer vilime_5p
talime_5p Integer talime_5p
palime_5p Integer palime_5p
arlime_5p Integer arlime_5p
max_lim Integer max_lim
top_lep_la String top_lep_la
shape Geometry Shape Feature geometry.
st_area(shape) Double st_area(shape)
st_perimeter(shape) Double st_perimeter(shape)

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