For investors, businesses, the government, and others, it has never been more important to understand how county and regional economic trends are changing.  Use the national scope county-level establishments, employment, earnings (EEE) trends ranking table to examine how your counties/areas of interest are changing.

See http://proximityone.com/eee.htm

DMIGateway is updated this month to include new county/metro demographic/economic data also reviewed in this issue of DMINews.

DMIGateway is a decision-making information tool providing Web-based access to selected Federal and other geographic and demographic-economic data resources.  The many diverse Federal statistical agencies have their own Web protocols for data access and structure data differently.  Proximity DMIGateway is a Win32 client-server program that users install on their own computer and provides a simplified, faster, standardized approach to accessing diverse data from different agencies and sources.  See http://proximityone.com/dmigateway/guide.

Use the GeoDemographic Information System Level 1 (GDIS) to view national scope state, metro, and county thematic maps of demographic characteristics and trends.  Explore population distributions and patterns based on Census 2000 data and the 2008 official estimates. See details.

Make national scope thematic maps - expand for sample view

Create thematic pattern maps for your study area -- expand for sample view

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides new funding for programs under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (Title I). Specifically, the ARRA provides $10 billion in additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Title I, Part A funds to local education agencies (LEAs) for schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.

See http://proximityone.com/title1.htm to access an interactive ranking table with integrated demographics.  Compare/contrast school districts of interest.  View thematic maps showing distribution of ARRA ESEA funds by district.  Learn about accessing the data and tools for use on your computer for drill-down analysis, optionally integrating your own data.

Census Day is April 1, 2010, and marks the reference date for data from the Census 2010 program.   The Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) is now integrally linked with Census 2010.  The "Census 2010/ACS" DMINews section provides monthly highlights of current and pending developments regarding these programs.  The focus is on data access and use and to a lesser extent data development and related operations. Proximity will continue to maintain the decennial census focused Web pages Census 2000 and Census 2010.

Of general ACS interest (broader than school districts), see also http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-4803.htm (American Community Survey 5-Year Data Products).

School Districts

Unlike Census 2000, school districts will be a standard tabulation geography for Census 2010.  For Census 2000, school district tabulations were only available as a part of the School District Special Tabulation (as with the 1990 Census).  The most basic data from Census 2010 for school districts will not be available until April 2011.  More detailed, but no 'sampled-based' data, will follow from Census 2010 later in 2011 and 2012.

The first demographic updates for all school districts since Census 2000, on par with the types of demographics tabulated in Census 2000, will be the ACS 2005-09 estimates scheduled to be released in late 2010.  An all U.S. school district special tabulation version of the ACS 2005-09 is also planned which will provide access to many of these data iterated by 'children's own' universes including grade relevant children, grade relevant children enrolled, grade relevant children enrolled public, grade relevant children enrolled private and grade relevant children not enrolled.      

See related School District Decision-Making Information -- http://proximityone.com/sddmi.htm.

The School District Dynamics (SDDynamics) resource http://proximityone.com/sddynamics/guide helps school district stakeholders use the ACS 2005-07 data for wide ranging analyses.  SDDynamics illustrates the nature of subject matter covered by ACS and how ACS data can be used in geographic

information system applications.

MetroDynamics (MD) is updated with the detailed (subject matter data by maximum detailed NAICS category) 2008Q3 quarterly establishments, employment, and earnings (EEE) data based on employer reported data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ES-202 program.   See description of subject matter included in MD.  MD provides quarterly time series EEE data from 2004Q1 forward, then making a 19 quarter series.  Use the optional MD feature to estimate suppressed data and use continuous quarterly measurements in your analyses.

HLIAnalyst integrated software and database enables uses to analyze county level quarterly economic high level industry trend data.  The quarterly updated database enables users to examine employer reported "ES-202" data on establishments, employment and earnings with only a 7-8 month lag from the reporting period.  Easy access to county (or custom aggregate) area economic trend data.  Supported with on-demand graphic analysis/charts and analytical operations such as location quotient analysis.

This section illustrates use of new 2007-08 school district boundary files (in shapefile structure) with applications using the CommunityViewer GIS software and Kansas geographic areas.

These application views focus on Kansas schools and school districts with drill down detail in the Topeka, KS area (Shawnee County).  The legend at left shows/provides access to/ map layers such as K-12 schools, Interstate, streets, and other wide ranging geographies,   Places/cities appear in the map view with a green color as shown in the legend.  A check in the layer checkbox indicates that layer is being actively shown in the map.

For users of the CommunityViewer ks1.gpr project, this is the project start-up view with a zoom-in to the Topeka area..

Zoom-in view showing street detail, schools with names.

Zoom-out view showing all school districts, counties, places, interstate.

Southeast Kansas illustrating view of townships, counties, schools, places (using name as label)

Recent Ranking/Crosswalk Table additions:

CBSA/Metro/Component Counties 2000-2008 population estimates and change -- http://proximityone.com/md.htm

(new official estimates as of 3/20/09)

U.S. by County Establishments, Employment & Earnings -- http://proximityone.com/eee.htm

Ranking Table main page: http://proximityone.com/rankingtables.htm