Census Curated Data Enterprise Use Case Demonstration: Climate Resiliency of Skilled Nursing Facilities

Abstract

The proposed Curated Data Enterprise (CDE) is a transformative approach for how the Census Bureau could accomplish its mission to develop and provide high-quality, timely, and geographically detailed statistical products by changing how it manages its data assets, incorporates information from external sources, and leverages them for the public good. The CDE explicitly focuses on curating not only the data that are part of the enterprise but also all of the processes associated with creating a statistical product, including the relevant context, and ingesting, analyzing, and producing purpose-driven statistical products on platforms that permit wide accessibility. The CDE would move the Census Bureau into a position to meet the challenges confronting statistical agencies in the 21st Century (Keller et al., 2022).

This report demonstrates the CDE concept through a Use Case on Skilled Nursing Facilities (Shipp, Salvo, & Zhang, 2022). We implemented this Use Case to begin to highlight the capabilities needed to develop and deploy the proposed CDE successfully. Lessons learned through the development will inform the design of a Use Case Research Program to test and implement the CDE concept use case by use case. It is imperative that this be done by posing relevant questions and building data insights that will inform the public and stakeholders and provide a platform for future research.

** Note: We updated the report to include a recent General Accountability Office (GAO) report, which found that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ownership data do not identify SNFs with private-equity ownership and were not designed to do so. At present, there is no definitive source for this information (GAO 2023). This information is noted as a statistical product gap in Exhibit 8 that may require new data collection or discussions with CMS about how to collect private-equity ownership data.