Demographics can play a large role in literacy, and what MoveUP! wants to try to figure out is what types of demographics are making an effect on their students. If certain factors make a large enough impact, it could potentially be something that MoveUP! would want to take into consideration when they advertise their adult literacy programs.
This graph shows the median household income per each census tract in Hartford County. It is evident that the western part of Hartford county has a higher median income, whereas the actual city of Hartford seems to have the lowest. When you click on the tracts, though, you are able to see that many more people are attending adult literacy programs in the tracts that are in the city of Hartford in comparison to those that are in towns that have higher median incomes such as West Hartford.
Building upon the first map of income, this map shows the distribution of the poverty status for individuals 18-64 years of age within the various census tracts of Hartford County. This map essentially shows the inverse of what the previous map showed: it accentuates the lowest income areas, which is, again, primarily the city of Hartford.
Another demographic that isn’t related to income that is important to look at, particularly in relation to literacy is employment. There is typically a strong correlation between employability and literacy skills, therefore it is important to look at what kinds of match ups there are in terms of unemployment. What is essential to note about what is considered to be “unemployed” in this particular map and data set is that those individuals are part of the labor force. There are also individuals included in the data set that are under the category of “not in labor force”. It is interesting to note, however, that the highest rate of unemployment isn’t necessarily in the same tracts as the lowest income.