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The Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Framework defines upward mobility as having three essential, interconnected dimensions: economic success, power and autonomy, and dignity and belonging. It identifies more than 20 evidence-based predictors that are strongly associated with those dimensions of mobility. The Mobility Metrics are a suite of short- and medium-term measures of each predictor. This appendix documents the criteria used to select metrics for each predictor and provides the set of years, available disaggregations, and data sources used to construct each metric on the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard.