Soc. 352-353 Investigating Social Life I-II: Statistics

Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

Use the Demographics Wizard to create custom tables of national- and state-level statistics about low-income or poor children. Choose areas of interest, such as parental education, parental employment, marital status, and race/ethnicity—among many other variables

Lists multiple sites where statistics and data include sites containing county and local statistics for a range of topics related to poverty: basic demographic information, employment and income, health and mortality, social assistance programs, school districts and schools.

This data section provides information about publicly available national surveys that include questions from the U.S. Food Security Survey Module. Information on each survey and directions for accessing data files are available in the

Consumer choices about food spending and diet are likely to be influenced by the accessibility and affordability of food retailers—travel time to shopping, availability of healthy foods, and food prices. Some people and places, especially those with low income, may face greater barriers in accessing healthy and affordable food retailers, which may negatively affect diet and food security.

Collecting and reporting official Xavier data and information to the U.S. Department of Education and other state and accrediting agencies.
Research and analysis to support decision-making, university planning, and assessment.
Maintaining, training, and supporting the operational and analytical reporting tools including Reporting Services and Tableau.
Conducting surveys, outcome studies, and institutional-level assessment.

The University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN) is designed to offer prospective students and their families concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information about the nation's private, nonprofit colleges and universities in a common format. It was developed and is maintained by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)

Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries. Get information on public and private schools, public school districts, libraries, and colleges in your area, or around the country.

The University Factbook contains historical information about the University Enrollment, Completions and Academics. The figures found here are always based on Official Census Dates.

The Address Search tool in the American FactFinder allows users to enter an address and then view each level of Census geography, including tract, in which the address is located.

The Census Geocoder http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/ is another option that allows users to enter an address and then view the census tract in which the address is located. This tool allows users to choose the vintage of address ranges from the MAF/TIGER database to use in geocoding, including 2010 and current. In addition to single address geocoding, the Census Geocoder enables users to do batch geocoding by uploading a text file with up to 1,000 addresses.children. The Data Center features hundreds of indicators with more than four million data points. Users of the site are able to view national, congressional district, county, school district and city data from across the country.

Can search for data by state, city, zip code. Guided search - you can find data by census tract.

A national survey conducted to obtain information about household food expenditures, food program participation, food sufficiency, ways for coping with food insecurity, and concerns about food security. The universe for the survey are households eligible for the basic Current Population Survey (CPS). This includes households that are 185 percent of poverty and lower that will be asked all supplement questions as well as households over 185 percent of poverty that will be asked only a few questions, unless their answers identify them as "food insecure" and therefore eligible for the entire supplement. This is a proxy response supplement. However, interviewers are asked to interview (if at all possible) the person who buys or prepares the food for the household.

ERS tracks the supply of commodities available for consumption in the United States and examines consumer food preferences by age, income, region, race, place where food is eaten, and other characteristics

Food environment factors--such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics--interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is beginning to document the complexity of these interactions, but more is needed to identify causal relationships and effective policy interventions.

The objectives of the Atlas are:

to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and

to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.

The Census Bureau reports poverty data from several major household surveys and programs. The Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) is the source of official national poverty estimates. The American Community Survey (ACS) provides single and multi-year estimates for smaller areas. The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) provides longitudinal estimates. The Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program provides model-based poverty estimates for counties and school districts. See Description of Income and Poverty Data Sources to determine which survey or program meets your specific needs

Link to actual Questionnaire https://www.census.gov/acs/www/methodology/questionnaire_archive/

The Food Access Research Atlas maps and provides selected food access indicators for census tracts. The Food Environment Atlas provides a wider set of statistics on food choices, health and well-being, and community characteristics. While the Food Access Research Atlas provides information at the census-tract level, the smallest geographic level of data in the Food Environment Atlas is the county. The Food Environment Atlas also has an advanced query tool that allows users to identify and map counties sharing the same degree of multiple indicators

A Status Report on Health and Well-being
of Children in Select Neighborhoods

Census Tracts, School District Tracts, Zip Code map, Zoning Maps, Political Jurisdictions

USA Counties features over 6,600 data items for the United States, States and counties from a variety of sources. Files include data published for 2010 population as well as many other items from the 2010 Census of Population and Housing, the 1990 census, the 1980 census and the 2007, 2002, 1997, and 1992 economic censuses.

Zip code maps with statistics for that zip code area. Includes demographics, population counts, ethnicity stats, average income, etc...