Analyzing Southern
California Communities: Demographic Analysis
Workshop
Dates &nbs
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San Diego: January 11th, 12th or 13th (9:00 am - 4:00
pm) Note: This is a one day
workshop.
Anaheim: February 2nd, 3rd or 4th (9:00
am -
4:00 pm)
Locations
San Diego:
New
Horizons Training Center 7480 Miramar Road, Bldg B, Suite 202 San Diego,
CA
Anaheim: New Horizons Training Center 1900 S. State
College
Blvd. STE 100 Anaheim,
CA
Fee
The registration fee
is
$249 - Credit Cards, Checks and Purchase Orders
accepted
Materials
Comprehensive workbook (75 pages) which includes the presentation,
exercises and reference worksheets,
Demographic Data Resource CD
which includes several shapefiles (tracts, places, water, school
districts)
and ArcExplorer map browser
ArcGIS software 60 day trial CD
set
The Analyzing Southern
California Communities: Demographic Analysis Workshop will
teach
you to extract, query, download, analyze, and map Census demographic data
for
communities in Southern California (Note: Participants use their own
community
in exercises-all techniques are directly transferable to other
communities).
Such data can provide grant writers, social researchers and community
planners
with powerful tools for analyzing community changes. This is a
streamlined,
"hands on" workshop where each participant works on their own computer
throughout the day.
This workshop also provides an introduction
to
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes a discussion of GIS
trends
and common uses, where to easily obtain mapping files, a demonstration of
the
map browser ArcExplorer (included with your materials), hands on practice
making basic maps online and suggestions for making effective maps.
See a detailed description
Workshop
Outline
Lesson 1: What Data is Available
Where?
-Types of data collected
in the Census and American Community Survey
-Differences between
Summary
Files 1 - 4 and when it's appropriate to use which data
set
-Learn what the 2003 American Community Survey has to
offer
and the differences between the ACS and the
Census
-Accuracy and under count rates for Census
data
Lesson 2: Census
Geography
-Description
of Census geographies
-What
data is available at what
geography
-What
to do when your target area boundaries do not match Census geography
boundaries
-Analyzing
change over
time
Lesson 3: Extracting and Analyzing Demographic Data for
the
American Factfinder
-How
to efficiently extract, local, disaggregated, custom Census data and 2003
American Community Survey data
-Explore
a wide range of variables including poverty, language, age, income and
housing
variables
-Construct
a Community Change Profile for a community of your choice
using
several core demographic
variables
-Use common formulas to express data in interesting and compelling
ways
Lesson 4: Things You Should Know (so as not to be a
dangerous analyst)
-Recommendations
on ways to analyze Race/Ethnicity, Income, Age, Housing and
Population
-Examples
of how to present this type of
information
-Common
and helpful formulas for working with the data sets
above
Lesson 5: Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems
(GIS)
-What
is GIS, how is it commonly used
-Downloading
and working with free shapefiles for your analysis, where to get
various
types of shapefiles
-Working with ArcExplorer, bringing in shapefiles,
creating
thematic maps in
ArcExplorer
-Creating maps online through American Factfinder
Former
Participants' Comments:
South
Central
Los Angeles Regional Center (Los Angeles 2003)
"This
information
will be a valuable tool to add to my skills arsenal. I'm excited about
applying what I have learned to the grant writing process."
City of Garden Grove (Los Angeles
2004)
"Actually, it was absolutely excellent, and I'm kind of
hard
to please in training. Thank you very much!"
Southern
California Association of Non-Profit Housing (Los Angeles
2004)
"It was very helpful and a good way to refresh myself
on
using Census data and mapping."
UCLA (Los Angeles
2004)
"Wonderful. I learned a lot that I can take back to my
organization and do community-based work."
City and
County of
San Francisco Dept Public Health (San Francisco 2003)
"Great
class, so much useful information and resources!"
City of
Berkeley (San Francisco 2003)
"Great learning experience. I
am
taking this knowledge back to work!"
New Urban Research, Inc.
(formerly
SmartGirl Technologies, Inc.) is a social research company located in
Portland, Oregon. For more information about the workshop, who we
are
and what we do, check out our website at www.urban-research.info.
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