Each bar represents the percentage of objectives in a given topic area that fall into each category.  The categories used in the HNJ2020 Final Review are summarized below. 

1. Target met or exceeded: The final value was equal to or exceeded the target.

2. Improved: Movement was toward the target and the objective had achieved 10% or more of the targeted change.

3. Little or no detectable change—One of the following applies:

   1. Movement was toward the target and the objective had achieved less than 10% of the targeted change.

   2. Movement was away from the baseline and target and the objective had moved less than 10% relative to the baseline.

   3. No change was observed between the baseline and the final data point.

4. Got worse: Movement was away from the baseline and target and the objective had moved 10% or more relative to the baseline.

 

Population Groups

Federal standards on the collection and presentation of data on race and ethnicity allow respondents to select one or more of the following five categories when reporting their race:

• American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North, Central, or South America, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
• Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
• White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

The standards on Hispanic origin provide for the collection of data on whether a person is of Hispanic or Latino culture or origin, as defined below.

• Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race, and persons in the various racial groups may be of any of the Hispanic-origin subgroups. 

The federal standards were implemented by data sources throughout the 2010-2020 tracking period, so the format for reporting race and ethnicity differed across some objectives. In the status by population group analyses, data for all objectives with available race and ethnicity data are provided, although the number of objectives with data for specific racial or ethnic categories varied. Final progress data were available for the following race or ethnicity categories: Asian (n = 60 objectives), Hispanic (n = 80 objectives), White (n = 81 objectives), and Black (n = 82 objectives). The American Indian or Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander populations in New Jersey were too small to calculate reliable rates. 

Explanations of how differences in reporting on race and ethnicity across data sources were handled are given below: 

• Some data sources only reported estimates for Asian or Pacific Islander persons combined rather than as separate Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander populations. In the status by population group analyses, objectives that only had data for Asian or Pacific Islander persons combined are included in the Asian category.
• If Hispanic ethnicity was not available in the data source, the data by race includes both Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
• If a data source allowed respondents to select one or more of the five race categories, persons who selected more than one race were not included in the White, Black, or Asian categories.

In Healthy New Jersey 2020, unless explicitly stated otherwise, all data labeled Hispanic are for Hispanics of any race and all data labeled Asian, Black, or White do not include persons of Hispanic origin or persons of more than one race.  The four groups -- Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White -- are mutually exclusive.

Every measurable objective in Healthy New Jersey 2020 had a unique target for each population group that was based on the baseline value for that population group. For example, if Group A's baseline value was 50 and Group B's baseline values was 60 and 10% improvement was desired, Group A's target was 55 and Group B's target was 66.