Safety Landscape: Economic Security

• Full-screen mode: If the embedded dashboard below is hard to view, click the “expand” icon in the lower right corner of the window to view in full screen mode.
• Filters (dropdown menus): In the dashboard below, there are five dropdown menus that allow you to change and refine data in the chart (from left to right): Indicator Type, Economic Indicator, Demographic Factor, Race/Ethnicity, and Year
• Using the filters to select/refine data in the view: From the “Indicator Type” dropdown (far left) select the category of data you want to view: Concentrated Disadvantage, Consumer Burden, or Economic Stability. Then select a specific data point from the “Economic Indicator” dropdown to view in the map and related charts.  Some indicators can be further refined by using the “Demographic Factor” and “Race/Ethnicity” dropdowns. (If there is no data available in thes dropdowns, “no sub-category data” and “no race/ethnicity data” will appear in the dropdown window)
• A note on the “Year” dropdown menu: Some indicators come from datasets from different years. If map or other chart detail disappears in the dashboard, try selecting a different year.
• In the map view: Hover over states for pop-ups with additional state-specific data. 
• In the State to State Comparison chart (below map): View how states are distributed on the data point you selected via all five dropdowns. Assess whether your state ranks higher or lower on the selected indicator, is clustered with other states, and/or is above or below the national average (the vertical red line).
• In the All States/Territories chart (right of map): View specific statistics for states, sorted by top and bottom. Use the slider and dropdown to display more states or change how it is sorted.
• Click on your state in the map view: Toggle to a state drill-down with the details on the selected indicator for your state, including general population and rates of violence data.
• Click the download icon (bottom-right): To download a PDF, image, or PowerPoint slide of the dashboard. Ensure you’ve selected the data point via all five dropdowns and the view you want. Bring this to meetings, share with partners, add your own data to supplement, and use it in your advocacy!

Concentrated Disadvantage

• What’s the level of concentrated disadvantage in my state (lower score means higher disadvantage)? How might you use this in your advocacy?
• Does my state also have a higher rate of IPV than others? (see Map 1)
• Are there indicators in the concentrated disadvantage category where my state is doing better or worse? Is anything surprising?
• What’s upstream from this? What policies, funding, or other forces play a role in creating or maintaining concentrated disadvantage in my state?

Consumer Burden

• What does the consumer data say about debt and consumer protection, generally, in your state? What does that reality look like for survivors?
• What barriers do debt and other financial hardship cause survivors (ie. housing)? Look at other Safety Landscapes to understand fuller stories of economic inequity.
• What’s upstream from this? What policies, funding, or other forces play a role in creating or maintaining consumer burden in my state?

Economic Stability

• What economic resources do survivors need for safety? 
• Which people/groups have the most and least access to them in your state? 
• Do survivors have access to wealth, mainstream financial services, and protection from financial abuse? 
• What’s upstream from this? What policies, funding, or other forces play a role in creating or maintaining economic stability for some groups and not others in my state?

Use the prompts below to practice using dashboard data to craft and submit stories and ideas for systems change. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.

Use the prompts below to share your advocacy stories and best-practices with us. We’ll anonymize and add these as “map layers” in the dashboards in the future so the entire field can benefit. You can also request assistance from CSAJ.