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DMINews -- February 2008
Topics: • Examining Higher Education Enrollment Patterns • Mapping Change in Hispanic Population -- Using Single Year of Age Data • Private K-12 Schools Examining Higher Education Enrollment Patterns Analyzing the dynamics of which higher education institutions are drawing enrollment from which counties in a state or region can be challenging for many reasons, yet having an understanding of these patterns is important. Where there are multiple institutions in a state system, there is a need to understand how the institutions are drawing enrollment. from the same areas. Where is there overlap? What counties/institutions are competitive? What areas are underserved? What areas are overserved? How will these patterns change over time? What will be the impact of market infrastructure change? The EnrollmentAnalyst (EA -- http://proximityone.com/ea.htm) is used to facilitate analysis of enrollment patterns by county and higher education institution. has been developed to facilitate these types of analyses. EA is an integrated software and database tool designed to analyze enrollment and enrollment participation rates by higher education institution by county or county groups. EA is a Win32 application designed to operate on the user computer. Mapping Change in Hispanic Population EnrollmentAnalyst (EA -- above) uses a single year of age by race/ethnicity by gender annual population estimates database. One feature of EA enables the user to aggregate single year of age data for a specified age range and generate an output summary file. The EA user may then examine enrollment participation rates for different/selected population groups. In addition, the output file can be used for other applications. 
The graphic at the right illustrates how data from an EA generated population summary file,
Hispanic population ages 18 to 24 by county for the State of Georgia, can be presented as a thematic map.
Using CommunityViewer (CV -- http://proximityone.com/cv.htm), the EA file was integrated into the Georgia county shapefile using the dBMerge feature. A CV project file was then created and the following thematic map displayed. The map shows the percent change in Hispanic population ages 18-24 during the period 2000 to 2006 for Georgia by county. Click graphic for larger view and press F11. The larger map view shows counties labeled with 2006 Hispanic population ages 18-24. The CV identify tool is used to profile the annual Hispanic population ages 18-24 data for a selected county. Private K-12 Schools The U.S. national scope K-12 private schools shapefile has been developed by Proximity. The 2005-06 school year database includes approximately 30,000 schools. Subject matter attributes include name, address, related contact information, enrollment by grade, affiliations, and related data. These data/shapefile may be combined with the U.S. national scope 2005-06 public schools shapefile and school district boundary shapefiles. 
The graphic at the right provides a sample view of private schools in the New York City
area (Central Park and other public use spaces are shown in green).
This map was prepared using CommunityViewer (CV -- http://proximityone.com/cv.htm)
but the shapefile may be used with any software capable of processing shapefiles.
Click on the graphic, then press F11 key, for a larger view. The larger view shows labeling with school names. Also in the larger view, the CV identify tool is to profile a selected school providing an example of subject matter data. Additional Information Contact Proximity for more information about any of the topics reviewed in this section. |
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