**[Exercise 1: Determine Population Statistics within a Radius of Three
Miles of your Home]{.mark}**

1.  Click on the **Find an Address** button at the LandView Home screen
    to locate your home address in the MARPLOT mapping program.

2.  Enter your street name or just the first few letters of your street
    name and the zip code and click **Find Street**. The search may find
    more than one street name meeting the test. (Hint: If there are
    several entries containing the same street name, use the Place/Map
    column to determine the street segment. If the segment is inside a
    place the place name will appear; if it's outside a place, the
    county name will appear.)

3.  Select the most appropriate street name.

4.  Click the **Addresses** button to scroll to the address range that
    includes your block face address. (Hint: If there are no address
    ranges shown for the street, click on the Intersections button and
    then select the closest street intersection.)

5.  Select the most appropriate address range.

6.  Click on **Show on Map and Zoom** to go to the MARPLOT view screen.
    (For the sake of simplicity, we will skip a step here that would
    allow more accurate placement of the Focus Point**.**)

7.  In the Menu Bar, select the command **Sharing/LandView/Census 2000
    Population Estimator** to return to LandView in the **Population
    Estimator dialogue**. (Or you can always click on the LandView 6
    icon in the system tray at any point in a session and go back to the
    LandView 6 Home screen.)

8.  Type the number **3** in the **Radius (miles)** box in the middle of
    the page.

9.  Click on **Calculate Population using Block Points** button to
    determine the most accurate population estimate for the 3 mile
    radius around your home. (This may take a few seconds.)

*How many blocks fall within the radius?*

*What is the population estimate for the 3-mile radius around your
home?*

*What is the Hispanic/Latino population estimate?*

10. Click on the **Show this radius** on the map and review the
    resulting map. When finished reviewing the map, click on the
    LandView 6 icon in the system tray at the bottom of the screen.

***[Exercise 1: continued]{.mark} Note --- The following portion of the
exercise calculates more detailed demographic data by using census block
group centroids. Block groups contain blocks within a census tract that
have the same first digit (e.g. Block Group 1 contains blocks in the
1000 series). In addition, keep in mind that DP2-DP3 are based on a
household sample and are subject to sampling variability.***

11. Click on the **Summarize Demographic Profiles using Block Group
    points** button to determine a demographic picture of your
    neighborhood. (This may take a few seconds.)

*How many block groups fall within the radius?*

*What percentage of people drove alone to work (Hint: DP3 Economic)?*

> *Optional Steps - The following shows how to map the block groups
> whose centroids fall within the 3 mile radius. Click on **Window** and
> then select **more windows** at the top of the screen. Select
> **blckgrp.lv6** and click OK. You should see a new screen where the
> "Found" equals number of block groups summarized. Click the **"Show on
> Map"** button at the top of screen, select **"Show all records in the
> found set"** and then click the **"Show on Map"** button. Select
> **List** at the top of the screen then **layer list**. Select **Show**
> for Census Block Points. (Census Block Groups should already be marked
> show.) Hide the "Census TIGER/Line 2000 layers by selecting the white
> inverted triangle over the Hide Column located in the "Census
> TIGER/Line 2000 layers grouping row and then click OK. The screen
> should redraw showing both the census block points and the census
> block groups falling within the radius. Note that the census block
> points all fall within the shaded area of the radius where some of the
> block groups extend beyond the radius. Return to the MARPLOT Layer
> List and select "Set to Default Settings" which resets the layer
> settings to those present at installation and then click OK. Return to
> the LandView program as described in Step 7.*

12. Close profile screens and go back to Population Estimator dialogue
    screen.

13. Click on the Home icon to get ready for the next exercise.

[**Exercise 2:** Create a thematic map by county using Census 2000
Demographic Profiles.]{.mark}

> You should still be in the Census 2000 Demographic Profile area. If
> not, from the LandView 6 home click on the **Census 2000 Demographic
> Profiles** button

1.  Click on the **States** tab and select a state. (When you select
    Demographic Profiles from the main menu, it opens with the state tab
    selected.)

2.  Click on the **County tab** button. LandView automatically creates a
    search collection of counties for the selected state. *(Note
    LandView automatically creates search collections of geographic
    areas that nest hierarchically. For example, you could create a set
    of all tract records for a county by selecting State, County then
    Tracts).*

3.  The Found Set should include all counties in the selected state.

4.  Next Select the Economic (DP3) table by clicking in the radio
    button.

5.  Click in the **Percent below poverty level for Families Below
    Poverty level** field located in the lower right hand portion of the
    table. (Whatever field you click on will be thematically mapped.)

6.  Click on the **Thematic Map** button.

7.  Accept the defaults and click **Show on Map**.

8.  Click on the LandView 6 icon in the system tray at the bottom of the
    screen.

9.  Reset the defaults to a more meaningful data set and **Recalculate
    Record Count**. (You can change the color scheme, change the fill
    pattern from solid to patterns and/or customize the data ranges. By
    default, LandView breaks the data into quartiles.)

10. Again, click **Show on Map**

11. When finished examining the map, return to LandView by clicking on
    the LandView 6 icon in the system tray at the bottom of the screen.
    Then click **Cancel** to clear the thematic map**.**

[**Exercise 3:** Create a Set of Population Statistics for a Tri-county
Area using the Census 2000 Demographic Profiles.]{.mark}

> .**FileMaker Pro** driving LandView requires a **New Request** for
> each "or" statement included in a query. For your Home County and two
> adjacent counties, view a consolidated set of Census statistics.

1.  From the LandView 6 home click on the Census 2000 Demographic
    Profile tab

2.  Use the **Counties** tab.

3.  Click on the **Setup a Find** button. This is your first
    **Request**.

4.  Enter your state's FIPS code or USPS State Abbreviation (i.e."24" or
    "MD"), next to **"State:" 24** **MD**

5.  Enter sufficient characters to identify your County by name in the
    **County** text box. i.e. "Prin" for Prince Georges.

6.  On the menu bar, click on **Requests** then **Duplicate Requests**.

7.  The Status Area to the left shows that this is your 2^nd^ request.
    Enter the name of your second county in the county text box.

8.  Repeat steps 6 and 7 for your 3^rd^ request.

9.  Click on the **Find** button in the Status Area. Your **Found Set**
    should include three Counties.

10. Click on the **Summarize** button to view a consolidated set of
    Census statistics.

11. After reviewing the statistics, select **Close**.

*What is the percentage of foreign born persons in your Tri-county Area
(Hint: DP2 Social)?*

*How many persons of Irish ancestry in your Tri-county Area (DP2)?*

12. Click on the **Close** button this should bring you back the Census
    2000 Demographic Profile area.

> *Optional Steps. To highlight your area, it's possible to map the
> selected counties and hide other counties. Select **Show on Map.**
> From the menu select the **Show All Records in the Found Set** and
> **Make all other objects on this layer invisible** and then click on
> **Show on Map.** When done, return to LandView by clicking on LandView
> 6 button in the Status Bar. Select Show on Map and deselect the **Make
> all other objects on this layer invisible** and click on **Show on
> Map** to clear the setting**.***