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Analyze School & Community Data
- 1. School & Community Data Nicole Branch, Instruction Librarian Santa Clara University Library Image courtesy of Flickr user Rosa Menkman.
- 2. Today we will… • Critically analyze data & data sources • Find data relevant to your high school & community • Find data relevant to Downtown College Prep
- 3. Finding Community Data & Statistics Think about WHO might collect the data you are interested and WHO might publish the results. Government agencies Non-government organizations Academic institutions Private sector
- 4. Finding Community Data & Statistics Think about if the data/statistics you are looking for will be made readily available. Controversial/harmful data Not broadly applicable data
- 5. Finding Community Data & Statistics Think about your timeframe & geography Lag time for publication Sampling and geographic specificity
- 6. Critiquing Data & Data Sources Who is the source of the data? Does the source of the data have a bias/interest in the data and how might this impact how the data was collected or analyzed? What is the sample size and how was the data collected? What is the larger context of the data? Correlations are not causations.
- 8. Source
- 9. Methodology
- 11. Context
- 14. What might be an issue with the reliability of these statistics? California Health Kids Survey, San Jose Unified Secondary, 2010.
- 15. School Data Sources • DataQuest o California Department of Education o California Healthy Schools Survey • School Accountability Report Cards (SARC) o State data o Required by federal law for schools receiving public funding.
- 16. School Data Exercise • Find a SARC for your school & Downtown College Prep • Use DataQuest to find more school data
- 18. Community Statistics • American FactFinder o U.S. Census Data o American Community Survey (ACS) oEstimates o Detailed data
- 19. Census Tracts • Census Tracts are small areas within cities or areas
- 21. How the U.S. Census Measures Race http://www.prb.org/Publication s/Articles/2009/questionnaire.a spx
- 24. School & Community Exercise • Find neighborhood data using the ACS: Look up the address for the school and use the ACS address search function to access census tract data If that address does not work in ACS, find a residential address near the school
- 26. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
- https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_ct.html Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. A census tract usually covers a contiguous area; however, the spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Census tract boundaries are delineated with the intention of being maintained over a long time so that statistical comparisons can be made from census to census. Census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth or merged as a result of substantial population decline. http://www.lib.washington.edu/maps/GISfiles/Census/Ch10GARM%5B1%5D_census%20tract%20and%20BNAs.pdf Census tracts are small, relatively permanent geographic entities within counties (or the statistical equivalents of counties) delineated by a com- mittee of local data users. Generally, census tracts have between 2,500 and 8,000 residents and boundaries that follow visible features. When first established, census tracts are to be as homogeneous as possible with res- pect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. 2010
- https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_ct.html Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. A census tract usually covers a contiguous area; however, the spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Census tract boundaries are delineated with the intention of being maintained over a long time so that statistical comparisons can be made from census to census. Census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth or merged as a result of substantial population decline. http://www.lib.washington.edu/maps/GISfiles/Census/Ch10GARM%5B1%5D_census%20tract%20and%20BNAs.pdf Census tracts are small, relatively permanent geographic entities within counties (or the statistical equivalents of counties) delineated by a com- mittee of local data users. Generally, census tracts have between 2,500 and 8,000 residents and boundaries that follow visible features. When first established, census tracts are to be as homogeneous as possible with res- pect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. 2010
- http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2009/questionnaire.aspx
- http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_QTP3&prodType=table
- http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_QTP3&prodType=table