2020 Census data update

On August 12th the United States Census Bureau released redistricting data from the 2020 Decennial census to the public, alongside videos, visualizations, and other resources. 

About the 2020 Decennial Census redistricting data

These data capture the demographic characteristics of the nation on April 1st, 2020 at the state level and down to census blocks:

• Population totals
• Voting-age population (i.e. age 18 and up)
• Race and Hispanic/Latino origin
  
• Occupied and vacant housing units
• Population totals in group quarters (i.e. nursing homes, prisons, military barracks, and college dorms).
  

Population totals from the data are used by states to redraw electoral district lines (or, "redistrict") based on population size, and to determine where funding goes. North Carolina, for example, gained one seat in the US House of Representatives due to a 9.5% increase in the state population from 9.5 million people in 2010 to 10.4 million in 2020. 

New "Time Series Table" option in SimplyAnalytics

A new way to create tables in SimplyAnalytics. Interns, this is a NC LIVE database (state-wide access), so it's a really good one to learn how to use!

TIME SERIES TABLE: "Add one data variable to this report and we will automatically add all years of data for that variable. For example, if you add "Median Household Income, 2017" the report will also show data for the years 2000, 2010, 2011, etc."

https://library.uncg.edu/dbs/auth/go.asp?vdbID=520

--Steve

Got Data Qs?

There is a new website for helping answer research data management questions called DataQ. They don't have many answered questions yet because it just started, but if you get questions about RDM from faculty members, check the DataQ knowledge base. It is geared specifically to librarians, but others might find it useful.

Post on mapping tools by Phil!

Check out Phil's post on the Dataland Blog. Really great tutorials for mapping using Google!

http://uncgdataland.blogspot.com/2015/01/2mappingtools.html

Simmons data now in DemographicsNow

The two most important sources of psychographic data are Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI) and the Simmons National Consumer Survey. Thanks to NC LIVE, we have had the MRI package in SimplyMap for many years.

Last month DemographicsNow added Simmons data:

 



The data is available from the national level down to block groups, and is organized into 21 product/lifestyle/media categories. Consumer data is available by brand (ex. autos) as well as product categories. Find out what percentage of folks living in your neighborhood like to watch "Adult Swim", or how many are watching their diets due to diabetes.

This data is probably most useful using the comparison or rank report type, not looking up one place, as I did above.

--Steve

El Salvador Question

A student will be coming in looking for some primary sources for a paper on the elections in El Salvador in 1984 and 1989. She doesn't know Spanish and got confused when I tried to walk her through Lexis Nexis.
I also suggested: http://www.agn.gob.sv/, http://www.newspaperindex.com/en/newspapers/El+Salvador, and looking through our primary source pages.

When she comes in (If I'm not around) can whoever is at the desk try to walk her through LexisNexis searching in person? Also, a few other places to look: http://library.uncg.edu/depts/docs/international/statistics.asp, and Lynda's political pages particularly these pages:

• New York Times Historical Try some searches similar to: "el salvador" AND election*
• http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Elecdata/ElSal/elsal.html
• http://www.elsalvadoroea.org/
• http://www.tse.gob.sv/
• http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?CountryCode=SV
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm
• CQ Weekly: https://library.uncg.edu/dbs/auth/go.asp?vdbID=105 Search El Salvador.