Change log — February 2024

Detailed information about what has changed for Esri Demographics and ArcGIS Places data for the February 2024 release is provided below.

Advanced Demographics

The following Advanced Demographics changes have been implemented:

Country	Changed content
Australia	Vintage 2021—Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 449 new attributes 38 attributes, vintage 2016, no longer available See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Germany	Vintage 2023—Nexiga 7 attributes, vintage 2022, no longer available See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Thailand	Vintage 2022—Esri Thailand 1 attribute, vintage 2021, no longer available See the Release notes (PDF) for details
United States	Crime Indexes—Vintage 2023B from Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) Traffic Counts—Vintage Q4 2023 from Kalibrate

Standard Demographics

The following Standard Demographics for Europe have been updated by Michael Bauer Research GmbH:

Country	Changed content
Austria	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Belgium	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from Esri raster-based to 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Communes. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Denmark	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education - Pop 15+/Edu: Qualifying Education Programs shows significant variance due to small relevant population. Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Kommuner. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Finland	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Kunnat. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
France	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending shows some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Germany	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Marital Status and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Gemeinden. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Greece	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from Esri raster-based to 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Unemployed Persons is based on per-capita values of the respective NUTS3 Area. Education and Marital Status are based on per-capita values of the respective Dimoi. Household Income and Households by Type are based on per-household values of the respective Dimoi. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Ireland	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) 1 Education attribute no longer available. Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Marital Status and Households by Type are based on new input data. Education is based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. Education is based on per-capita values of the respective Electoral Divisions. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Italy	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education is based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Liechtenstein	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Consumer Spending and Purchasing Power show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education and Households by Type are based on new input data, showing high variation due to small numbers. Education and Marital Status are based on per-capita values of the respective Gemeinden. Households by Type is based on per-household values of the respective Gemeinden. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Luxembourg	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Netherlands	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) 10 new Age attributes. Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education is based on new input data, leading to some high variation and anonymizing of the original raw data in regions with few inhabitants. Education and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Gemeenten. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Norway	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Kommuner. Households by Type and Household Income are based on per-household values of the respective Kommuner. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Poland	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) 9 new Education attributes. 7 Education attributes no longer available. Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Age, Gender, and Marital Status are based on new input data. Education is based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Gminy or Gminy Miasta. Household Income is based on per-household values of the respective Gminy Miasta. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Portugal	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) 11 new attributes: 6 Education and 5 Marital Status. 7 Education attributes no longer available. Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to a national address point dataset, which could result in changes to previously run values in some trade areas. Consumer Spending and Purchasing Power show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Age and Gender are based on new input data. Education is based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. Education and Marital Status are based on per-capita values of the respective Freguesias. Household Income is based on per-household values of the respective Freguesias. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Russia	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Households uses new input data from the national census. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Spain	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) 13 new Education attributes. 13 attributes no longer available: 6 Education and 7 Households. Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Marital Status is based on new input data. Education and Households by Type are based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Sweden	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from Esri raster-based points to OpenStreetMap (OSM) residential building footprint centroids, which could result in changes to previously run values in some trade areas. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education is based on new input data. Education and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Kommuner. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Switzerland	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes in some trade areas. Consumer Spending shows some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Marital Status and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Gemeinden. Households by Type and Household Income are based on per-household values of the respective Gemeinden. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
Türkiye	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending, Purchasing Power, and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Ilceler. See the Release notes (PDF) for details
United Kingdom	Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022) New geography level: Census Output Areas 13 new attributes: 6 Education and 7 Households. 14 attributes no longer available: 6 Education and 8 Households. Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points. Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation. Marital Status is based on new input data. Education and Households by Type are based on a new data structure, limiting comparison to previous data. For reasons of data privacy, in areas with few regional inhabitants, data relating to currency and population are based on the national average. See the Release notes (PDF) for details

ArcGIS Places data

The following ArcGIS Places data changes have been implemented:

ArcGIS Places topic	Content change
Introduction to ArcGIS Places data	Updated user content, including product overviews and attribute comparison
Data Axle	Vintage November 2023. Added attribute details to the user content. Added two new attributes (U.S. only). Attribute Description Square Foot Minimum / Maximum Estimated minimum or maximum square footage of the business (shown as an integer). Square Footage The estimated square footage of the business: 1–1,499 sf 1,500–2,499 sf 2,500–4,999 sf 5,000–9,999 sf 10,000–19,999 sf 20,000–39,999 sf 40,000–99,999 sf 100,000+ sf
DENUE	Added attribute details to the user content.
Esri India	Added attribute details to the user content.
Foursquare	Vintage February 2024. New and updated records in countries and territories around the world; approximately 100,000 additional records for the United Kingdom and China; more than 1,000,000 additional records for Japan. Added attribute details to the user content. Added four new attributes (currently available only in ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Community Analyst). Attribute Description H3 Hexagon R7 Esri-provided Uber H3 global hexagon identifier for resolution level 7. Conceptually similar to a U.S. Census Block ID, the Uber H3 global hexagon ID is designed to help users rapidly associate and summarize places data within a grid for analysis. See this ArcGIS Blog article to learn more. Open 7 Days a Week Indicates whether the place is open 7 days a week. Open Weekends Only Indicates whether the place is only open Saturday or Sunday. Number of Sublocations The number of 'child' or sublocations associated with a place. For example, a shopping mall place may contain multiple 'child' stores or sublocations.
NOSTRA	Vintage 2023. Added attribute details to the user content.
SafeGraph	Vintage December 2023. Added attribute details to the user content. Update to 17 NAICS code categories. NAICS code Description 71 Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 442 Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores 448 Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores 622 Hospitals 4422 Home Furnishings Stores 4452 Specialty Food Stores 4471 Gasoline Stations 4483 Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Stores 7211 Traveler Accommodation 7225 Restaurants and Other Eating Places 8123 Dry Cleaning and Laundry Services 62111 Offices of Physicians 485310 Taxi Service 611630 Language Schools 623220 Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities 713120 Amusement Arcades 811113 Automotive Transmission Repair
U.S. Places data	Added attribute comparison details to the user content.

ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service

Puerto Rico and the United States

Some variables are unavailable for data enrichment at the Block Group level. For these, variables have been added at the Census Tract level to support reports and infographics.