Urban Markets Initiative

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The Brookings Institution
Urban Markets Initiative Metropolitan Policy
Program
Innovative Secondary Data Sources for Outcomes
Evaluation
All in Good Measure Symposium NeighborWorks
America June 28, 2006 Kansas City, Missouri
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Innovative Secondary Data Sources
Neighborhood Change Database
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American Community Survey
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Local Employment Dynamics
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Neighborhood Change Database
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• Basic Features of the NCDB
• Decennial census long form variables
• About 1,000 variables for each year
• Years 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000
• Multiple geographies, to census tract
• Data normalized to 2000
• Easier to compare data across censuses
• Vendor GeoLytics (www.geolytics.com)

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NCDB Example Changing Population Density 1970 to
2000 - Atlanta, Georgia
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American Community Survey
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• What is the ACS?
• An annual survey
• Replaces Decennial Census long form
• Characteristics demographic, housing, social,
  and economic estimates
• Geography same as the decennial census long form

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American Community Survey Updated Statistics

• Statistics will be updated every year
• Sample in every county
• Annual averages areas of 65K
• 3-year averages areas of 20K
• 5- year averages all areas, down to block group

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ACS Timetable for Release of Data (by population
size)
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ACS Data Products

• Data profiles
• Multi-year profiles
• Ranking tables
• Subject tables
• Detailed tables
• Thematic Maps
• Reference Maps

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ACS Data Issues

• Pay attention to
• Confidence intervals
• Multi-year averages
• Statistical significance
• Geographic boundary changes

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Local Employment Dynamics
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• Voluntary partnership between state labor market
  information agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau
• Develops new information about local labor market
  conditions

Source LED, US Census Bureau
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LEHD Led to LED
Source US Census Bureau
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42 LED Partner States
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Local Employment DynamicsProvides Data from
Just 9 Months Ago

• Local
• State, county, sub-county, workforce investment
  areas
• Employment
• Demographics (age and sex)
• Industry
• Earnings
• Dynamics
• Time, quarterly (as far back as 1990)
• Job gains, losses and flows
• Hires, turnover, and separations

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Kansas City is the 28th largest metro
Local Employment Dynamics Tools and
Features http//lehd.dsd.census.gov
On the Map
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Kansas City is the 28th largest metro
On The Map LEDs online dynamic mapping tool

• Where do workers live?
• Where do people work?
• Origin-destination data structure
• Overlay additional features
• One-Stop Centers
• Community Colleges
• ZIP Codes
• Military Installations

• Soon to expand to 18 states, and then to 44
  states
• Funded in large part by ETA

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Using On The Map
Type all or part of a city or county name
Get a list of states, cities and counties that
match
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Using On The Map

• Select year, job type, live or work, and report
  type.
• Layers can show location of OneStops or Community
  Colleges.
• Draw a circle around the area of interest.

U.S. census block groups within the circle are
shown
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Kansas City Poverty Rate by Census Tract, 2000
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Northwest Kansas City Commute Shed
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Northwest Kansas City Job Dynamics
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Contact Information
Andrew Reamer Fellow and Deputy Director Urban
Markets Initiative The Brookings Institution 202
797 4398 areamer_at_brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/m
etro/UMI.htm