Purdue Food and Agriculture Vulnerability Index
(in collaboration with Microsoft)
Data:COVID-19 confirmed case are from Johns Hopkins:
County-level total population is for 2019 from the U.S. Census Bureau:
County-level data on number of farmers is from the 2017 Census of Agriculture (measured as the numbers of “producers”):
County-level data on number of hired farm laborers is from the 2017 Census of Agriculture (measured as an expense associated with “labor, hired – number of workers”):
County-level production for each commodity is from the 2017 Census of Agriculture:
Calculations and Definitions:
