Data Axle Business and Consumer Data Available on the UW Data Collaborative
Posted: 2/4/2023 (CSDE Awards)
The UW Libraries have secured ongoing funding to purchase annual updates to the Data Axle business and consumer data, housed on the UW Data Collaborative. The data provide over 400 variables covering some 17 million US businesses spanning 1997 to the present and over 300 variables covering more than 275 million US consumers, spanning 2006 to the present. Annual data updates covering the previous year are generally made available in February. The data were initially brought to the UW through an Allen Signature Award from the UW Libraries in 2019 and the annual data updates had been supported by bridge funding from UW Libraries, the Runstad Department of Real Estate, and CSDE up until 2022.
Data Axle data have been used in several research projects, including a recently awarded R21 proposal, “Gentrification, Mobility, and Exposure to Contextual Determinants of Health” (R21HD108570, principal investigator CSDE affiliate Arthur Acolin), which will investigate the relationship between gentrification, displacement, and contextual determinants of health using the Data Axle consumer trace data as a unique new source to examine long term mobility for a large number of individuals.
The data have also been used in several other grant proposals and awarded grants, “Examining Variations in Changes in Crime Hot Spots Across 6 U.S. Cities,” funded by the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) a DHS funded center (PIs Marie Tillyer, University of Texas San Antonio, Affiliates Arthur Acolin and Rebecca Walter), “Exploring Associations between Residential Location and Health Behaviors in Youth (EARLY): a Twin Study” (PIs Bethany Williams, Glen Duncan, and Ofer Amram, all at Washington State University); three academic presentations, and seven publications.
For more information, see https://dcollab.uw.edu/data/infogroup/