# Presentation: 239259

## SDC/bidc Products and Services

**February 2003**

## Great Stuff

- Education and Training
- States by the numbers
- GIS and Mapping
- Data + Analysis = Value
- Who we are and why
- Economic Development
- Child-Care Indicators

**Notes:**
Thanks very much for having us here today to showcase what State Data Centers have to offer.  What I present here is just a sampling of the great products and services that are out there.

## Education and Training

- Newsletters

**Notes:**
All state data centers provide some form of education and training.  Educating people about the use of and the benefits of census data.  Helping people analyze and understand the data for their local area.  Most state data centers have some form of newsletter or update that is sent out.  I show examples from Alabama and Arizona here.  You can see more examples at the display table.

## Education and Training

- Training

**Notes:**
State Data Centers supplement those newsletters with training and workshops.  Many times with help or in partnership with the Bureau.  Oklahoma, for example, sponsored a free workshop this week and has three more upcoming.

## States by the numbers

**Notes:**
Sometimes State Data Centers present census data in a different way.  They may package their state’s data in one nice neat package.  Here’s  Maryland’s CD-ROM called Census View 2000.  Maps, tables, charts down to the neighborhood level.  You can even create your own user-defined area or use Maryland’s own Smart Growth initiative areas.  It’s designed to work with ESRI’s ArcView software.

## States by the numbers

**Notes:**
What a great picture.  Maybe I’ll just leave this up here a while so we can forget about the snow and being here at work.  We should all do more covers like this.  I’ll volunteer to go places to take the pictures.  Arkansas’s stat abstract rivals the Census Bureau’s with just Arkansas data.  A lot of work went into this I’m sure but what a great resource.

## GIS and Mapping

**Notes:**
Many state’s add their own little touches with GIS and Mapping.  This example maps census tracts of northern Illinois.

## GIS and Mapping

## GIS and Mapping

**Notes:**
Montana sent in this example of a study they did determining the need for utility improvements in Lewistown Heights.

## Data + Analysis = Value

**Notes:**
This example from the North Dakota State Data Center includes data for 12 states.  Tables and maps detail population growth patterns and other indicators for counties in the Great Plains states.

## Data + Analysis = Value

**Notes:**
My New Jersey example.  The benefits of my doing this.  This publication uses census and other labor market indicators to attempt to gauge past, present and future economic conditions.

## Data + Analysis = Value

**Notes:**
Another Arkansas example.  They get to do great stuff.  

## Data + Analysis = Value

**Notes:**
Their study on children at risk looked at indicators such as family income, educational attainment levels of parents together with non-census indicators like low birth weight babies and special education enrollment to show areas more likely to have children at risk.  I can’t begin to capture all that we have to offer in this short presentation but I hope I gave you some sense of the work State Data Centers do.  There is a sheet to fill out if you would like a copy of one of these publications.  I can’t guarantee anything but I will try.