Regional Snapshot: 2021 Metro Atlanta Speaks in Summation
Metro Atlanta Speaks...we have given you most of the rest (v.v. tools to view the information), now check out the best (summary, that is).
Health Assessment: the 11-County’s Health Rankings in 2021
With the holiday indulgence season here, we're offering a look at how our counties measure up on healthy behaviors year-round.
Metro Atlanta Speaks: The Big Trends in the Perceived Biggest Problem
What's the Biggest Problem? How the answers to the biggest question in the Metro Atlanta Speaks Survey have changed over time - and how they haven't.
2021 MAS Regional Survey Updates are Out! Find out more here!
Results for the 2021 Metro Atlanta Speaks survey were released yesterday as part of the State of the Region Breakfast. This post compiles all the places you can go to learn more about the attitudes and perceptions about life in the 11-county area, from high-level overviews to data exploration dashboards.
Regional Snapshot: Public Health, 2021
A high-level overview of the public health issues facing Metro Atlanta, including COVID-19, homicide, opioids and infant mortality.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2021: Incremental Improvement
Finding reasons for optimism and what work the 11-county area still has ahead of it when it comes to battling breast cancer in the future.
COVID-19: Hospitalization and ER visits in 2020
Comparisons for hospitalizations and ER visits for the flu, heart disease and COVID-19 are less dramatically uneven than what we saw in our examination of COVID death data. But we still see that COVID-19 comes out on top when it comes to things that sent us to the hospital in 2020.
The Changing Population (Growth) Picture Part II: Pause or Permanent?
We close our population decline series with a review of factors and an overview of recent Census Bureau estimates, along with the first-issued results of the 2020 Census, which appear to indicate that we are headed for at least a few years of slowing growth.
More Mortality? (Population Decline, Continued)
This next segment of our population decline series takes a look at death rates (total and age-adjusted) from 2000-2019, then reviews early indications for 2020 change.
Busting the Baby Boom?
Taking a look at which age groups of women have seen the greatest fall in birth rates since 2000 and which ones have seen the greatest increase.