Change log — June 2024

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

Advanced Demographics

The following Advanced Demographics changes have been implemented:

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Japan

  • Vintage 2020-2024—Esri Japan.
  • Geography level names have updated to plural form (for example, to Blocks from Block).
  • 12 Age attributes are no longer available.
  • New Spending, Age, and Population attributes are available.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Puerto Rico

United States

View the Esri 2024 U.S. Demographics Release Notes (PDF) for more information.

Standard Demographics

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

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Albania

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Andorra

  • Vintage 2023.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and real income growth.
  • Households are shown on the basis of the national value.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Belarus

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, Unemployed Persons, Purchasing Power, and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Raioni.
  • Households are based on per-household values of the respective Raioni.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Bulgaria

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Education data is based on a new structure; a comparison to previous years is not possible.
  • New input data from the 2021 Census was used, showing a 3% decline in population compared to previous estimates. This is included in the projection for 2023.
  • Age, Gender, Unemployed Persons, Purchasing Power, and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Obshtini.
  • Households are based on per-household values of the respective Obshtini and city parts of Sofia.
  • 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.

Croatia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Number of new attributes: 8 Education.
  • Number of attributes no longer available: 6 Education.
  • Currency was changed from Kuna to Euro.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • New input data from the 2021 Census was used, showing a 5% decline in population compared to previous estimates. This is included in the projection for 2023.
  • New data from the 2021 Census led to some deviation in Age bands, Marital Status, and Households by Type.
  • Education data is based on a new structure; a comparison to previous years is not possible.
  • Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Opcine.
  • Household Income and Household Types are based on per-household values of the respective Opcine.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Cyprus

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Number of new attributes: 9 Households.
  • Number of attributes no longer available: 9 Households.
  • Data is only shown for Greek territories.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power.
  • Consumer Spending shows significant 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.

Czech Republic

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Geography level changes: Cohesion Areas are no longer available.
  • Number of new attributes: 6 Education and 7 Households
  • Number of attributes no longer available: 13 Education and 8 Households.
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending shows some region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Education and Households by Type are based on a new structure; a comparison to previous years is not possible.
  • 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.

Estonia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022)
  • Number of attributes no longer available: 1 Education.
  • Consumer Spending shows significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, Unemployed Persons, Purchasing Power, and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Omavalitsuste.
  • Households and Household Types are based on per-household values of the respective Omavalitsuste.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Faroe Islands

Greenland

Hungary

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Települesek.
  • Household Income and Household Types are based on per-household values of the respective Települesek.
  • 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.

Iceland

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Number of new attributes: 5 Education.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant 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.

Kosovo

  • Vintage 2023.
  • Data for North-Kosovo is not available.
  • Settlement Points have been updated from 2017 Esri raster-based points to the 2023 European Commission Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) raster points, which could result in changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Latvia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, Unemployed Persons, Purchasing Power, and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Novadi.
  • Households are based on per-household values of the respective Novadi.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Lithuania

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Savivaldybes.
  • Households are based on per-household values of the respective Savivaldybes.
  • 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.

Malta

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • New data from the 2021 Census led to some deviation in Age bands.
  • Birkirkara, Ghajnsielem and Comino, Munxar, Kalkara and Zebbug Gozo in totals.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Moldova

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Data for Transnistria is not available.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Monaco

Montenegro

  • 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, which could result in changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

North Macedonia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Number of new attributes: 1 Education, 9 Households, and 5 Marital Status.
  • Number of attributes no longer available: 1 Education, 9 Households.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • New input data from the 2021 Census showed an 11% decline in population compared to previous estimates. This is included in the projection for 2023. The new 2021 Census data led to some deviation in Population and dependent variables.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, Unemployed Persons, Purchasing Power, and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Opstini.
  • Households and Household Types are based on per-household values of the respective Opstini.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Romania

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power shows an upward trend due to a revision of 2022 Purchasing Power and inflation.
  • Consumer Spending shows significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • New input data from the 2021 Census led to some deviation in Marital Status.
  • Age, Gender, Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Comune.
  • Purchasing Power and Consumer Spending are based on per-capita values of the respective Comune, but for Bukarest they are based on per-capita values of the respective Bukarest Sectores.
  • Households are based on per-household values of the respective Comune.
  • 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.

Serbia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Purchasing Power projections show an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending shows significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • New input data from the 2021 Census led to some deviation in Marital Status and Education variables.
  • Marital Status and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Opstine.
  • Data for Naselja of Bujanovac and Preševo are based on per household or per capita values of the respective Opstine. For these areas, variables relating to currency and population are based on the national average.
  • See the Release notes (PDF) for details.

Slovakia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Purchasing Power projections show an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant 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.

Slovenia

  • Vintage 2023 (Unemployed Persons 2022).
  • Settlement Points have been constrained using current MBR boundaries, which could result in minor changes to previously run values in some trade areas.
  • Purchasing Power projections show an upward trend due to inflation.
  • Consumer Spending and Unemployed Persons show significant region-wide, post-pandemic fluctuation.
  • Education, Marital Status, and Unemployed Persons are based on per-capita values of the respective Obcine.
  • Household Types are based on per-household values of the respective Obcine.
  • 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:

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Data Axle

  • Vintage February 2024.
  • New government business records and online directory resources have been added to Data Axle's business compilation process. This has resulted in an increase in records for sectors, including medical/health businesses, non-profit organizations, education/library and government, mining, and unclassified businesses relative to prior releases. Over 900,000 records were added between February 2023 and February 2024:
  • Added new attributes Location Parent, Location Parent Relationship, and Specialty.
  • Updated attributes:

    • Locator Match Status and Locator Match Rating are now only available in Canada.
    • Professional Specialty merged into new attribute Specialty.

  • Specialty attribute combines content from Data Axle that includes religious denomination, restaurant cuisines, restaurant service type, business type, car make, and professional specialty.

Esri India

  • Vintage 2023
  • Total Esri India Places location count: 9,732,246
  • Added 1.2 million records
  • Deleted 8,000 locations
  • Updated Brand name and Street name for 4.1 million records. Total records with Street name now 9.2 million
  • Added validation for longer state names

Foursquare

  • Vintage April 2024.
  • Added three new attributes: Symbol ID, Open 24 Hours a Day, and UTC Time Zone

SafeGraph

  • Vintage March 2024.
  • Removed attribute: Phone Number.
  • Updated attribute: Address no longer includes Street Name (applied to U.S. dataset only).
  • Added attribute: Esri PID.