Iowa Aging Services Consumer Counts by Fiscal Year, Age Group, and Service

mydata.iowa.gov | Last Updated 31 Jan 2024

Data provides consumer counts for services provided to aging citizens of Iowa funded through federal and state programs starting in 2009 and is updated annually. It includes self-reported demographic information for services provided by age group, gender, live alone status, rural status, poverty status, racial identity, and ethnicity (per U.S. Census definitions). Counts include only those individuals who provided a response on intake. Intakes are completed on service initiation and annually thereafter. Unduplicated counts are by service; an individual may have received more than one service.

Tags: aging, services, gender, race, ethnicity, consumers, older, elder, seniors, nutrition, transportation

This dataset has the following 19 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
Fiscal YearyearnumberThe state fiscal year for which the services were provided. The State Fiscal Year runs from July 1 - June 30 and is numbered for the year in which it ends.
Age Groupage_grouptextAge group as determined by date of birth and age at the end of the previous federal fiscal year.
ServiceservicetextServices provided in accordance with Older Americans Act authorization.
ConsumersconsumersnumberTotal number of individuals who received at least 1 unit of the service.
Male Consumersmale_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported gender as male.
Female Consumersfemale_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported gender as female.
Consumers in Rural Areasconsumers_in_rural_areasnumberTotal number of individuals whose self-reported zip code is considered rural. Rural definition up to 2018 was the U.S. Census Bureau definition. In 2019, the rural definition was changed to match rural designations according to The rural-urban commuting area (RUCA) codes classify U.S. census tracts using measures of population density, urbanization, and daily commuting developed an published by U.S. Dept of Agriculture Economic Research Sevice.
Conumsers Living Aloneconumsers_living_alonenumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported gender as living alone.
Consumers in Povertyconsumers_in_povertynumberTotal number of individuals whose self-reported household size and income indicated a poverty status..
Hispanic Consumershispanic_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported ethnicity as Hispanic.
Non-Hispanic Consumersnon_hispanic_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who did not self-report ethnicity as Hispanic.
White, Not Hispanic Consumerswhite_not_hispanic_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as White (not Hispanic).
White, Hispanic Consumerswhite_hispanic_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as White (Hispanic).
Native American Consumersnative_american_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as American Indian/Native Alaskan
Asian Consumersasian_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as Asian
African American Consumersafrican_american_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as African American
Hawaiian Pacific Islander Consumershawaiian_pacific_islander_consumersnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
Consumers - Other Raceconsumers_other_racenumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as Other
Consumers - Two or More Racesconsumers_two_or_more_racesnumberTotal number of individuals who self-reported race status as two or more races