Data Resources:

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• Data Resources
• Successfully Obtaining Secondary Data
• Review of Kansas Data Online

Connie Satzler
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Successfully Obtaining Secondary Data

• Secondary Data Information that already exists
  somewhere, having been collected for another
  purpose.

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Examples of Secondary Data Resources

• Census
• Vital Statistics
• Department of Education
• Cancer Registry
• Hospital Discharge
• Medicaid Claims
• Health Professional Licensure
• Crime Data
• Traffic Accident

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• Do your homework before you make your data
  request. Your goal is to be successful the first
  time you make your request.

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Data Request Steps

• Initial data plan What is your goal? How do
  you expect this data to help you?
• Find the keeper of the data.
• Preliminary research
• Determine whether or not data you need is
  available.
• Ask for the resources policy in providing data
  necessary forms, whether or not there is a cost,
  protocols related to confidentiality, how to make
  your request successful.
• Ask others who have been successful in obtaining
  data from that resource.

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Data Request Steps

• 4. Find partners a state agency or state
  association may be especially helpful.
• 5. Write a detailed data plan, including your
  purpose in using the data and anything else that
  may be required by the data resource.
• 6. Submit data request form or any required
  paperwork.
• Follow-up as necessary.

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• Youve already tried the basic steps and still no
  luck?
• See handout of
  hints for
• hard-core data hounds.

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Data Resources on Internet

• Census www.census.gov
• Kansas Information for Communities (includes
  vital statistics)
• kic.kdhe.state.ks.us
• Other
• Education www.ksbe.state.ks.us
• Communities That Care www.connectks.org
• Crime www.accesskansas.org/kbi/stats.htm

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KIC, Census, or neither?

• Percent Asian children below 200 poverty by zip
  code
• Lung cancer age-adjusted death rates by county
  for African American males
• Percent Hispanics with less than a High School
  education by city

• Average daily inpatient stay for pulmonary heart
  disease by county by age group
• Age-adjusted heart disease death rates by poverty
  level
• Percent households below poverty with telephone
  service

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www.census.gov

• Facts for Features
• Other Census Resources
• American Community Survey
• Economic Census
• Estimates
• Decennial Census
• Summary File 1 100 questions
• Summary File 2 detailed race/ethnicity for
  100 questions
• Summary File 3 sample questions
• Summary File 4 detailed race/ethnicity for
  sample questions

Refer to Census handout and go to website.
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American Fact Finder factfinder.census.gov

• Useful online tool
• Access to nearly all Census data

Refer to American FactFinder handout and go to
website.
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Kansas Information for Communitieskic.kdhe.state.
ks.us/kic/

• Births
• Deaths
• Pregnancies
• Hospital Discharge
• Disease Statistics

Refer to KIC handout and go to website.
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Review of Other Selected Sites

• Education
• www.ksbe.state.ks.us
• Includes attendance rates, enrollment, drop out
  rate, graduation rate, suspensions, violent acts,
  advanced math science, and staffing.
• Communities That Care
• www.connectks.org
• Focus on juvenile drug, alcohol, and tobacco use.
• Crime
• www.accesskansas.org/kbi/stats.htm
• Data by race/ethnicity is not available.