Childhood Blood Lead Testing and Incidence of Blood Lead Levels of 10 mcg/dL or Greater by County Map: 2012
health.data.ny.gov | Last Updated 27 Sep 2019This map shows the percentage of children that reside in each New York State county, excluding New York City, who were tested for lead and identified for the first time within the specified time period to have elevated concentrations of lead in their blood. An elevated blood lead concentration of ≥ 10 mcg/dL is defined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the level requiring public health intervention. Under current NYS Public Health Law and implementing regulations, health care providers are required to test all children for lead at or around age one year and again at or around age two years. Health care providers are also required to assess all children age six months to 72 months of age at least once annually for lead exposure, with blood lead testing for all children found to be at risk, based on those assessments. For more information, check out: http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/. The "About" tab contains additional details concerning this dataset.
This dataset has the following 11 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | county | text | County of residence | Suffolk Westchester Nassau Erie Monroe view top 100 |
| County Code | fips | number | County FIPS code | 103 119 59 29 55 view top 100 |
| Year | year | number | Year the lead test was collected | 2012 view top 100 |
| Zip | zip | text | Zip Code of residence | 14512 12053 13736 14886 13052 view top 100 |
| Tests | tests | number | Number of children who resided in the zip code and had a blood lead test within the specified year. | 1 2 3 4 7 view top 100 |
| 10 – 15 mcg/dL | _10to15 | number | Number of children who resided in the zip code that were identified for the first time to have a confirmed concentration of lead in their blood between 10 – 15 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) within the specified year. | 0 15 9 11 6 view top 100 |
| 15 + mcg/dL | _15 | number | Number of children who resided in the zip code that were identified for the first time to have a confirmed concentration of lead in blood greater than 15 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) within the specified year. | 0 7 8 6 9 view top 100 |
| Total Elevated Blood Levels | total_eblls | number | Total number of children who resided in the zip code that were identified for the first time to have a confirmed elevated lead blood level within the specified year. Blood lead concentrations ≥ 10 mcg/dL are considered elevated. | 0 6 9 10 7 view top 100 |
| Percent | percent | number | Total number of children who resided in the zip code that were identified for the first time with confirmed elevated lead blood levels within the specified year, divided by the total number of children who resided in the zip code that had a blood lead screening test in that same year multiplied by 100. | 0.0 0.053 0.044 0.024 0.047 view top 100 |
| Rate per 1,000 | rate_per_1_000 | number | Total number of children who resided in the zip code that were identified for the first time with confirmed elevated lead blood levels within the specified year, divided by the total number of children who resided in the zip code that had a blood lead screening test in that same year multiplied by 1,000. | 0 44 56 67 47 view top 100 |
| County Location | county_location | location | Latitude and Longitude of New York State County's centroid | view top 100 |