AGENCY TESTIMONY
Data accessibility and disaggregation issues in racial equity planning
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Linda Tigani highlights the significant challenges CORE faced due to limited data accessibility and insufficient data disaggregation within publicly available datasets. These issues hindered CORE's ability to conduct thorough analysis using a racial equity lens.
- CORE intentionally used only publicly available data for transparency
- Many public datasets were outdated, not disaggregated, and inadequate for thorough racial equity analysis
- Available data often failed to reflect the diversity of New York City's population
- These data challenges are rooted in structural racism and must be addressed to advance racial equity
Linda Tigani
1:20:36
Core was intentional in its decision to only use publicly available data to ensure transparency to all communities.
1:20:43
Unfortunately, we experienced significant challenges due to limited data accessibility and insufficient data disaggregation within publicly available data sets.
1:20:53
Publicly available data sets allowed us to see how limited the data was in its representation and acknowledgment of communities harmed by racism and social injustice.
1:21:03
Much of our publicly available data is outdated, not disaggregated, and inadequate for a thorough analysis using a racial equity lens.
1:21:12
Given our city's diverse population, various races, genders, gender identities, and ages, our research must reflect that diversity.
1:21:21
These challenges are rooted in structural racism and must be addressed to truly advance racial equity and meet the needs of voters who overwhelmingly called for these changes.