Tuesday, April 28, 2009: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Overview: This webinar is for anyone currently using or interested in using demographic data for a number of purposes, including community profiles, planning, and program evaluation. Host Robin Blakely and guests will work with participants to address the following types of questions: What kind of data is appropriate to use for each purpose? Where does the data come from? Where can we find the data? How do we interpret this data? What are some successful examples of organizations and communities using such data? Robin Blakely is an Extension Associate with the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. She serves as the Managing Editor of CaRDI's various publication series and is currently developing a program called VIEW – Vital Indicators for Enhanced Well-being, which will be the focus of this webinar.
Archived recording is forthcoming.
Presentation from the Webinar
Understanding and Using Demographic Data
Vital Indicators for Enhancing Well-being (VIEW):
Decennial Census Short Form:
Decennial Census Long Form:
American Community Survey: The New Census!
Using Census Data Effectively:
Examples from the ACS– How communities are using the ACS for Informed Strategic Planning:
Where do we find Census data?
Access to Data – the NY State Data Center Program:
NYS Regional Planning Councils:
NYS County planning agencies:
NYS Metropolitan Planning Organizations:
Cornell Program on Applied Demographics (PAD):
Links to lists of other NYS data sources by topic:
- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/stats/ny.html#NYS
- http://www.alfredstate.edu/files/downloads/library/Statistical_Sources_Spring_2009.pdf