 We need to start over because I've been muted. Thank you, Marty, for asking. So let's start this all over again. Good morning. Welcome to Encompass Live on this very snowy Wednesday. This recording ought to be very interesting at this point. My name is Michael Sowers. I will be your host this morning, and I'll be doing the computer driving. Krista is currently snowed in at home. We have today our very own, Beth Goble, who will be talking about American FactFinder. And once again, I will pass the microphone over to her. Hi again, everybody. I was just starting to tell you all how inept I am at talking and driving at the same time. So that's why I've asked Michael if he will do the navigation for us. Today what we're going to do is a live tour. It's not going to be just a series of slides. And I want to show you a few of the easier ways to find information from the Census Bureau's website and most specifically from this site called American FactFinder. So I know Marty in particular may know more about the Census website than I do. So if you are expecting in-depth training today, please stick around just because we need to have somebody listening in, but that's not what we're going to get. So first off, I wanted to just give a little plug for the American FactFinder website and why it would be a good thing to know about in your library. It's not only a good source for finding community-level data, but it's also one of the most comprehensive. And so I'm going to show you that in some detail. And then if we have time at the end of the presentation, I'm going to show you a couple of Nebraska Access pages where there are just other places where you can find information about your community. So we'll see how that goes. And why would you want to use statistics? This may seem like a no-brainer, and why specifically would you want to use census data? Well, it's helpful for planning library programs. And I know here at the Library Commission, there's been some modification and updating of using the community planning process for part of our continuing education program. And it's just a good idea to know something about your community and do community assessment. And you can use statistics you get from the census website to plan library programs. I'm going to show you something about that later on, how to get money, how to get grants. Sometimes you need statistics on income in particular, or maybe other demographic characteristics like race. You might be putting in meetings to do something to do with your own library's budget request. If you're in a public library, you're putting in a budget request. Or you might just be sitting at the reference desk and somebody walks in and says, I need information on. So I think it behooves most of us to learn at least something about what's in the census and how you can use some of it. So first off, Mike, I'm going to ask you to go to the main Census Bureau's website. And that's it. And this, I guess all I'll say here is this is probably not the website you want to start with if you're a beginner with census data. There's one thing that is kind of handy here. And if you look at the top banner, there's FAQs and there's subjects A to Z. Do you want to click on that, Michael? I use this quite a lot just if I have no clue whether or not the Census Bureau even collects information on the topic I'm looking for. So one that I'm often asked about is poverty. So if you were to scroll down in this and find the link on poverty and click on that, go up a little bit, up, up, up. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. This gives you a nice breakdown of what kind of stuff would be available on poverty. And most particularly those small area income and poverty estimates. That's how you can get stuff down to at least the county level. So that's about all I'm going to say about the main Census Bureau website. So now if you want to just back up or however you want to do that, you can go directly to it. If you were at the Census Bureau's main site, there would be a link to the American Fact Finder or you can go directly to this one. It's got a really easy URL. It's just factfinder.census.gov. So we're going to just do a quick tour today on that. And they call this your source for population, housing, economic and geographic data. And it is more user friendly than the main site, which may not be saying much, but it is more user friendly than the American site. One thing that's important to know about this site is they are now using data from something called the American Community Survey. Have any of you heard of the American Community Survey? Sure. Any hands going up? I think Susie was doing something. I'm not sure. Yep. Yep. Susie raised her hand. Okay. Good. Okay. Susie gets a gold star. What it is is a nationwide survey that's designed to give communities more current information and accurate information than what they would have gotten from just the ten year census, particularly on socioeconomic and housing characteristics. So it is part of the official census, which means it's by law, it's mandatory. If you get one of their surveys, you must fill it out by law. What it is not is the official population count. The official count that they use for like apportionment, figuring out how our legislative districts are going to be apportioned and congressional districts, that still comes from the ten year census, the decennial census. And there also is something called a Population Estimates Program, which is separate from the American Community Survey. So the American Community Survey is an excellent way to find stuff and we're going to spend a lot of time looking for it, but just remember that it's not the official. There are some things you're not going to be able to get there, especially not right away. Okay. I'm going to tell you a little bit about how the census is going to be done. This is 2010 that's coming up, so we have a new census coming along, and it's going to start April 1st. And what is going to happen this year is there will only be a short form. If you remember, and some of you might have been amongst the lucky ones that got the long form, whenever you were involved in filling out census forms before. What's going to happen this year is everybody will get the short form, and then this American Community Survey has replaced the long form. And that, those American Community Surveys are sent out to about one in, one in six used to get the long form, and now with the American Community Survey, what they're doing is they're sending that out to about 250,000 homes every month, and that translates into about one in 40 per year. So they're going to be using that from now on. There's never, there's not going to be a long form as we knew it anymore, but the good news is that they're doing it continuously. You know, they're sending them out every month, so that they're now getting more accurate and up-to-date data on other things like income and poverty and so on. So this is going to be really cool. So they say that your odds of having to fill out one of those American Community Survey forms is, shouldn't be any more than once every five years you'd get hit with one of those. They started with that in 2005, so what we have now is they release the information once a year, usually in the summertime and in the form of what they call single years, single years or multi-year estimates. So this is where it gets more relevant to Nebraska is if you wanted to see annual estimates, you would need to be living in a community of 65,000 or more. So like today, Bellevue and Omaha, you would be able to find annual estimates. If you're in a community, as far as Nebraska goes, Omaha, Lincoln, Bellevue and Kearney and Grand Island, I believe are the only communities large enough to get very much. And when it comes to that, the annual estimates obviously just Omaha and Lincoln right now. They're also, now that the program has been running for a few years since 2005, they have what they call three-year estimates. And this is where Nebraska added a few new communities as starting last summer. Communities of more than 20,000 people are now, we now have three-year estimates for that. So that added Bellevue and Kearney and Grand Island. So you can get more information there. And then what's really cool is for every community starting in 2010, and hey, that's coming right up, there's going to be what they call five-year estimates for all communities in Nebraska. And there's also information at the county level too. So anyway, pretty soon we should all have access to a lot more information than we used to have. And I don't know if any of you were involved in this, but a few years ago, the kind of the first round of the Big Gates Foundation grants. One of the most frustrating things about that, and I got asked for help with this a lot, was they wanted poverty level information for communities. And it had to be at the community level. They didn't want county level, they wanted community level. Well, if I remember right, this was like the late 90s. I think it may have been before the 2000 census came out. And boy, it was really hard to find anything down to the community level that was recent. You're using information that was eight or nine years old. So it was really frustrating. So this is really going to help with that problem. Okay, so now let's go on tour. So the first thing I want to go through with you is that if you look, you have in the middle the fast access to information. So there's a heading under there. There's a drop down menu where you can select your state. And you can change it to Nebraska. Yeah, let's do that for now. And the neat thing about this is that it's actually going to remember what we were doing, getting hit go. I did, yeah, it's. Yeah, it takes a while. So- It's got to get through the snow. Yeah. Okay, so you notice up there by her head, it now says we're in Nebraska. And we're going to stay in Nebraska until we choose to change it to something else now. And those two tabs right below is what I was telling you about. That's the three-year estimate taken from the American Community Survey. The tab for 2000, that would be the last big census that we had. So right now, I want to just remember you're not going to see that three-year tab if your community is below 20,000 people. All you would see is the one tab for 2000. So over on the left, take a look at what's highlighted and it looks brown on our sheet over there. So you can see those fast links there to fact sheet and fact sheet for community down below. And what you see in the middle of the page is content that's kind of subdivided into different categories, like social economic housing and the American Community Survey's demographic instruments. So do you see a show more? Yeah, just pick under social characteristics, Michael, just where there's a show more link right there. Yeah, just click on that and see what happens. A warning, sometimes it can take a long time to wait. So see what it has done is it's generated a more detailed table for you and it's going to do it for Nebraska because that's what we've picked. So now what has done is generated a table showing us, because we clicked the show more besides social characteristics, that's the table that we got. And then at the top, the sidebar has now changed so that you could print tables quickly just by picking different topics there. Instead of having to back up to the middle and then do the show more again. If you were to hit any one of those other links now, I think it would just make you that a table under that topic. Okay, so you can use those navigation links along the side to get your more detailed options. And something else I wanted to mention is way up at the top, there's a blue bar kind of up in the graphic area, way over to the right that says help. That's a good place to go and that also will to some extent customize itself depending on where you are on the site. So now you see what it's doing is because we've picked one of those data profile tables, it's going to give you some information on how to print it out, how to download it, how to do that kind of thing. So just keep in mind that that help button is always there on every screen. And sometimes it customizes itself to where you are on the site. So good thing to know about, okay, exactly, print, yeah. That was where I was going to go next Michael, the print download option. This can be a little bit tricky, but let's select download. And I would know if I was asked for this just a couple of weeks ago, somebody just basically wanted a list of Nebraska towns with their population. But the person wanted it in a spreadsheet format. So this is where you could go to get that kind of thing. You could select these various formats and do it. And yeah, go ahead and try one if you want. Okay, and this is another thing I wanted to show you. Because this happens a lot to me. Sometimes you get there and you find out your pop-up blocker is on. So you're going to need to turn that off, or it's not going to let you download unless you've turned off the pop-up blocker. Okay? So, yeah, I thought it, well, don't be too sure it did though. Try it again now that you've turned off the pop-up. I find you sometimes you have to go back and try it again. Yeah, okay, so now try it. Okay, yeah, and then so you should see the pop-up that gives you the option to either save it or open it. So if it says done and you think it's done, it really didn't do anything. So just note to self, look to see if your pop-up blocker is on. And I can say that will vary from browser to browser. So we're at Internet Explorer right now. If you're using Firefox, you might get slightly different results. And this is why I'm glad Michael's here and driving because he can explain a lot of other stuff. Okay, so let's back out of that. And that took me a long while to figure out on that one. Okay, do we have any questions at this point? This is just where you could get some tables at the Nebraska level. And we're going to go down to a more local level. But before we do that, I wanted to show you something else. I was thinking it was on here, but maybe not. Don't worry about it. Okay, let's just go back to main. Yeah, and this site uses breadcrumbs, so it's kind of handy. So this time, let's just select Nebraska again. Yeah, I've kind of lost where I was going to go with this. So maybe we'll just skip this part. Yeah, let's just skip it. Okay, let's just try something. I just wanted to show you the difference again about what you can find with data. Let's pick Stanton this time. Typing Stanton in Nebraska. You may not be able to see the bottom of the screen, but it is working. It just takes it a while. Let's pick the city. Okay, now this is what I was talking about earlier, where you only see that 2000 tab now, and it tells you that the 2006 to 2008 data is not available. And that is because the reason why the smaller communities are taking longer for this information to be available is probably pretty obvious. But I'll just say it again. If it's a smaller place and they're using sample data, they just want to have a longer time period to be collecting that sample data. So the feeling was that they wanted at least five years' worth of data for the smaller places under 20,000 populations. So at the moment, Census 2000 is what you would see primarily for Stanton. Okay. You could also type in zip codes if you want to do that. I don't know how useful that would be for most of us, but you can. The question is, excuse me for asking, I noticed there's an option for narrative. What does that present? Is it analogous to an abstract? It gives you, let's do it. Okay. Let's do it. Yeah. Let's go. You can try Carney. Type in some. Yeah. You could just write from there. You still got that box. You could just type in a different, somewhere that we know Carney would now have the estimates. If I misspell a Nebraska town, I apologize. I remember seeing narrative too. No, I don't remember. Yeah. And I looked at it yesterday and now I don't remember exactly where it was either. Here we go. Narrative profile. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like an annotation, so it's more likely what you might see if the Census Bureau sometimes issues special reports on different topics. So yeah, you're going to get more information about the data itself. So good questions, Susie. Any other questions before we move on? Okay. So that would be a way to get quick tables about your community. So let's just, we can use our breadcrumbs to go back to Maine or however you'd like to do that. And let's click on that population finder link. It's left sidebar. Yeah. That works. Same thing. Same thing. And in fact, now you see over on the left sidebar, it's turned brown. So that's where, how we know where we're at. This is a quick way where you could see population trends because it'll actually show you trends for three different Census years. So again, at this point, you could choose somewhere relatively small, let's say, Arapahoe. Yeah, you could choose Nebraska. And then Arapahoe. I think so, yeah. Cheryl from Arapahoe was going to join us today, but probably because of the weather she was in. So if you're a library planner or someone's asked you for this and they just want a quick way to see trends, this can, this shows you what's going on, which is not good news for Arapahoe. We can see that they've had quite a drop in population. 20%. Yeah. And as you see that the 2008 is obviously an estimated population taken from the population estimates program. And pretty soon, you know, there should be more detailed information once Arapahoe comes into the American. They start publishing the results from the community survey. Okay. Let's now go over on that left side bar. And Susie says, nice, she's going to use this feature. Ah. Left side bar. And let's do click on people this time. And I, there with me here, we're going to try and make this work. Poverty data is something that I get asked for a lot. So we're going to experiment with going, using this people link to try and find the most recent poverty data that's available at the smallest level of geography. Okay. Okay. So if you hovered over people, or if you just clicked on it, it opens it up. There is a heading called poverty in there. Yep. That's the one. So if you notice there's nothing really recent in the middle there. And that's probably because we're, see we're still in Arapahoe. Remember I said it'll stay at whatever geography you picked unless you change it. Well, not, not quite. If you look over on the right, under related links, yeah, down in the body, they're under related links. There's one called data and links on poverty. Okay. So we're, you were about, dang, I'm not going to get anything more recent. Remember we saw this screen earlier when we were using the subjects A to Z from the main census website. This would help you if you're not finding anything more recent. So now let's try clicking on that small area income and poverty estimates over on the right that I mentioned earlier. And then scroll down a little bit. And I just kind of discovered this myself the other day working a question. See that second link down there for advanced school district estimates? Let's try that. Yeah. I'm just going to notice here that the link says 2008, but the little hover thing that shows up says 2007. Isn't that interesting? We'll see what happens. Okay. Now this is not, we're going on dangerous ground here. We're going to try to create an interactive table. We're winging it. Okay. Yeah. 2008. Yep. Okay. Now I happen to know from having looked at, Arapaho does have its own school district. So now you can go down there, but here's a really cool part. Who we got with us today? We've got Bellevue, Omaha. You can use control, click, Michael, and you can select more than one. We could do Bellevue. South Sioux. Let's pick, let's see what we've got for South Sioux. We can pick Stanton. So, Sioux County almost closed? No. No. South Sioux. There we go. Okay. And I think Stanton has a school district. Let's try that. Yep. Okay. And if I scroll back up here you'll see that the ones that clicked earlier are still selected. And this is one of the neat things about some parts of using the geography with the Census Bureau is they'll let you pick more than one and then we can display the data. So we've got this cool little comparison table for those four that we picked in. So if you want to, if you or your customer wants to be able to compare your school district to somebody else's you could be picking others in your area or others that you think have about the same population base. So this, this is one way even if you're in a smaller community where you can get at least some income type information, poverty type information. So like in the case of Arapaho you can at least find out, you know, total population of the school district, how many people there are in a relevant age group, which is obviously the school age, the age 5 to 17 age group, and of those how many of those families are in poverty. So it's not really comprehensive but it would give you some idea if you needed that information. So are the triangle buttons on each column to sort by that column? Let's try one and find out. There you go. Yes, it is. I love having Michael here. Yeah, and I don't know about the map part. I did not try clicking on map to see what happens there. I'm guessing you just get a map of Bellevue and we're waiting. If you can't see the bottom of your screen we're waiting. But it's a school district map. That's interesting. It's not just a regular map. It's got the school district boundaries. OK, OK, we're going to be looking at another map later. And I'll go into some of the things you can do once you've brought up a map. So because the mapping thing is a little bit more advanced. Do we have any questions at this point before I launch into the mapping? There's none in the queue. Is there any particular type of information that you would like to like us to just try a search on? I picked poverty because it's one that I get asked for. And I know the libraries that just received the recent Gates grant had to get poverty data. Yeah, maybe that's why it's in our minds a lot around here because anything to do with the Gates Foundation, they want that income poverty information. I'm not seeing any coming through. OK, let's go back to our main again. In this case, we kind of do have a question. Just to be sure, the total population is for the community, not the total students in the district. I believe on that chart the answer would be yes. I think so. I think so. We were in Arapaho at the time, weren't we? Yes. And I, or were we? We were at the. Does anybody remember what the number was? Let's see if I can back up here, sir. Now, totally backing out where we were. I think it's the population of the school district. Now, the school district boundaries might be different from the community boundaries. I think the Lincoln School District, for example, has some places that are not in the geographic boundaries of the city of Lincoln. Yeah, but yeah, I believe the population column was for whatever, the total population of what we're looking at, in that case, school districts, not the total number of students. The students were not counted as the population, the population. No, because the second column was the population of people aged five through 17. So that would have been your potential student population. And then the third column was how many of those students, how many of the families are in poverty. So it's not great, but it's better than nothing if you're in a smaller place, where you, the most current information. Otherwise, you might not have right down to the community level. Okay, let's try. We're gonna go out on the limb here again and try a little bit more with maps. So we're gonna, we're down in the more experienced user category, I guess I would say. Okay, so let's, now that we're in maps, yeah, let's choose the thematic maps there. That's where we are. And let's take a look at that node at the top there. And just take a look at that for a minute. Because it mentions displaying data for smaller geographic areas. And that if you wanna, if you wanna quickly just find out what's available for smaller areas, you would wanna click on that link that says data sets with thematic maps. So they warned you already that you may not be able to get something for smaller areas, and honestly, I think this is the hardest part about using any of the census data is, here's what you're looking at. And this may not mean a whole lot to most people. So let's, for the moment, let's, since we've been talking about the American Community Survey, let's scroll down a little bit here. And let's go down to those, just below the, the division, there's American Community Survey, three-year estimates. So keep in mind what I've said before about who we're actually gonna be able to see three-year estimates for, click on next. And now we pick geography, and look at that. There's only two possibilities, right? The nation or the state. So there's your clue that we're not gonna get anything lower than that level. So we can go ahead and pick Nebraska. And sometimes, it's working really fast today, but sometimes you have to wait a little bit. You think nothing's happening before the, the sort of next level of geography shows up, so, okay. So now what this is showing you is what they call a theme, a list of themes that you could potentially, you got a question? I'm gonna pause you here. Jan, you have your hand raised, I've unmuted your mic, do you wanna ask a question? Yes, on that population for school districts, that's the total population because ours was 16,000 something, and that includes Dakota City also. Okay. I'm from South Sioux. Great, could you, you wanna just say that again? I'm not sure everybody heard what you said. Yes, on population that you showed for school district, that's the total population for school district because that includes Dakota City for us, our town is not 16,000. Okay, great. Thanks for making that point is, yeah, it's the school district population, not the community population, and they might not be the same, especially if you're in a unified school district. Thanks. Okay, so now what we see in the middle is what they call themes, and you get an opportunity to select a theme. Now, we could experiment with the control click, but for me, you really only got to pick one. So let's go scroll down to, I love these numbers, MO204. Okay, so people who are Asian, okay, and show the result. This is where they really work, the hamsters. Yeah, yeah, waiting, waiting, waiting. Hopefully it doesn't take too long, but just keep in mind, we were only allowed to select Nebraska. So if you wanted to know where the, you can look at the side bar, the legend on the side bar, it's doing it as a percentage. So as far as Nebraska goes, they're only giving you five levels, but the lowest would be practically none, and the highest would be just over 4%. So the darkest would show you where the highest concentration, if you want to call it that, of Asian persons is, and that looks like Lancaster County to me, and that's not a surprise, because we're one of the destination points for refugees here in Lincoln. Okay, so I think what we learned from that is we're not going to see any real community-level data at the 2008 estimate level, if, but we really, let's say we really did want to see something a little more local, so I'm going to have you back up now. Click on, in our breadcrumbs, data sets with thematic maps. Okay, no, that's fine. Okay, we were going to stick with the American Community Survey in the hopes that we would be getting something as current as 2008, or 2007, depending on what they really meant by that. So let's go down to census 2000, just keep scrolling down. Oh, I think it was at the top, I'm sorry, scroll up. And let's just pick summary file one, the 100% data. So that's the short form folks who got the short form. Now this time, when we go to that geography, yeah, yeah, this is where it gets really interesting. So let's pick place. Down under the state category, let's pick place. And we may have to wait a while. Oh, sorry, you have to go next, hit next. No, it says it's waiting for something. Okay, you did that, all right. I think it must be sorting through an incredible amount of, yeah, so now if we pick Nebraska, aha, here we go. So suggestions, where you'd like me to pick? Who haven't we picked on today? Omaha? Omaha, yeah, why is this here? Yeah, or have we looked at Bellevue? We did with the school districts. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna do this on trek and typo. Okay, you don't wanna map it, you wanna go next. If you hit map it, it would just show you a map of the city of Omaha. Oh, don't need that. Okay, and now we have this really, really long list of possible themes or tables that we could generate. There is a quicker way to find this. Now, let's say I really wanted to stick with my Asian theme. So there's a tab there that says by keyword. Type in Vietnamese. I think that's right, yeah. Okay. We'll find out. And I've never done this for Omaha, I've done it for Lincoln. Session has expired, oh my goodness. Oh dear, okay. Let's try the main page, we may have to go over. I've not had this happen before, but. Okay, let's see if I can remember how to get back there. Maps, thematic maps, data sets. Thematic maps, census, next. Place, Nebraska. Nebraska. It's going suspiciously fast. Let's pick Lincoln this time. Just, I think we can get like. Maybe Omaha's crashed. Or it's just so big, I don't know. Okay, let's see Lincoln. All right, and now, let's try that keyword Vietnamese again. And search. Okay, now we're down, it's only giving you two possibilities. Let's pick that lower one and show the result. That came up amazingly fast. Okay, now, because we had done that pre-search statewide for the Asian population, I was pretty sure we were going to see something pretty significant for Lancaster County and Lincoln. So, what it's generated for us is this neat little map. And it's color coded and green seems to be the default. There's a link over to the left where you supposedly can change as higher up to like lavender or a different color scheme. I have never been able to get that to work for me. So, let's not even try. But, what I can show you is, just while you're over there to the left, Mike, I'll see there's a little link called Quick Tips. This helps you figure out how to use the map once you've found it. And so, if you scroll down a little bit, it would explain to you the same kind of stuff I'm gonna show you is how to zoom in, how to pan, how to do some of those things with the map. So, just keep in mind that, as I said, they do provide help for you at different places on the website. Okay, now that we're in the map, let's say we wanna zoom in and see something a little closer. It does tell you that it's displaying the map by census tract. There's a little box right above the map. We can just, let's just leave it on census tract. But let's go up and click on the brown plus up above. You actually have to click that to activate it. And now, if you click on the map, and this was probably intuitive to most of you, but it wasn't real intuitive to me. I kept trying to, I hit the plus sign to zoom in and then wonder why it wasn't zooming in. And then I finally went to the Quick Tips and it went, oh, you have to activate the button and then click on the map to make it zoom in. Okay, and this did take me quite a while this morning when I tried it again, so. I need to use Google Maps. A bunch more intuitive. This is the government. There's probably some mashup where they've taken all this data and you can do it way quicker than this. I'm gonna leave that for Michael to show you. Or show me so I can show you some type. I can tell you Google has not done it. I've been all through Google recently, but somebody might have, that's a lot of data. It is, and what you'll see if this map ever comes up is you'll actually be able to read street names on it because the zoom level that they're using will jump you in that far. Now, so this may only be useful if you're living in a pretty large community like Lincoln or Bellevue perhaps or Omaha, where there's gonna be enough difference within the boundaries of your community that you'd wanna do a map like this, but okay. Now this morning it did take a full minute before it came up from the computer I was using this morning. We're so impatient these days. Is it still working? Yeah, good, that's not a good sign. Do we have that pop-up blocker on by any chance? No, I can't, no, that wouldn't, oh, there it goes. There it goes, okay. Okay, holy cow. Would we like to take a survey when we need? No thanks, yeah, and I understand why they wanna know what you think. Okay, let's assume that you were all attached to a printer and we wanted to try to print this map or download this map, so now that we're here. As you can see in Lincoln at least, you're down to really what I would call the neighborhood level. If you were, for example, working with the public libraries or maybe the community college, you were interested in doing some programming or for a grant you needed information about the Vietnamese population in Lincoln, this would show you where the highest concentration of Vietnamese people are in the city. So in the case of Lincoln we have, you might be thinking about, okay, which libraries in our library system are closest to this? So knowing the geography of where people live or maybe we're gonna do a mass nailing in a neighborhood and you wanted to know where you could get the most bang for your buck, so to speak, I can see where you or maybe one of your customers would find being able to generate a map like this could be pretty helpful. Okay, so if we were to scroll up a little bit and go back to that print download there, I mean, obviously you're not gonna be able to print it but I can tell you, because I tried it this morning, that because we zoomed in, when you go to print this, it's gonna print the zoomed version, not the original map that we saw. It is, and you obviously have to have a color printer if you're trying to do this without one, it's not gonna look like much. And like I said, you're supposedly can change the color scheme, I've never gotten that to work for me. You're supposed to be able to change, if you just click over on the left, so hypothetically up to data classes right there, theoretically you're also supposed to get a larger group of data classes. Did you notice, if you look at the legend, there are only five data classes, zero to 0.5, and so on and so forth. You can theoretically get as many as seven if you want a more detailed breakdown and you could change it to some other color scheme. Theoretically gray would if you don't have a color printer. Yeah, now I just try hitting update and whether it was one of those you had to wait 10 minutes for something to happen, I don't know, but okay, it says pop-ups are temporarily allowed. Right, yeah, I just changed them. Yeah, but, so if any of you get this to work, email me and tell me how you did it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I, for today I didn't want to get into any of the other, let's just not do that. Okay, and just, maybe this is to salvage clarity from my own confusion because I ran into a pop-up blocker problem this morning. If I'd chosen download as an option, now I don't know about the common delimited when you're doing a map. I really don't get that, so I'm not gonna go there, but there is an option for portable document format. Yeah. It's like, my impression from a technical aspect is actually generating all of this on the fly. It's pulling the data you wanted and it's pulling a map and it's creating it and so it's gonna crunch a lot of numbers to be able to put this stuff together and then get it out on your screen. So, I kind of understand this B80 issue. Yeah, and if we don't get there, I can just tell you verbally that if you've got the pop-up blocker on, you're not gonna see anything. You might see the word done, but it really didn't do anything. And then if you look at the top and it tells you that your pop-up blocker is on, you've gotta turn it off and then start over and try to click on that PDF link again. And what you should see is a pop-up asking you, do you wanna open it or save it? And I just thought this was pretty cool because at that point you get the option to change the file name to something, Lincoln Vietnamese or something like that. Choose where in your documents or wherever on your computer or your thumb you wanna save it to. And it will save you a nice little PDF version of the map. Nah, let's not. Yeah, let's not. Okay, that was really all of the American FactFinder stuff that I planned to show you today. So if anybody has any questions at this point? If you'd like to go audio, just raise your hand and I'll turn on your mic. Otherwise you could just type a question in the questions area and you know who you are. There's a question by Susie. Yeah, that we've... Is that from your earlier question, Susie? Okay. Okay, well, I think we've got maybe five or 10 minutes. How about if I show you a couple of websites that we've assembled at the library commission that just includes other places to find statistics about Nebraska communities. And we're not really gonna tour it, I just wanna let you know that they exist. So I hope you all know how to find Nebraska access from our website. And there's gonna be a list of links that you'll be able to find later. Yeah, well, for those of you who regularly attend Encompass, we will have a list of links available on our delicious account. They're not there yet. Well, we post the archive and recording of this session. We will link to those books. So if you get to Nebraska access and just went down to do a search here at this point and just typed in statistics. You're making me spell again. Yeah, well, that's why you're driving. Okay, thanks to what we call our best bets around here. There are some links at the top that are shaded and it looks blue on our screen anyway. And two of those are the one at the very top. Where can I find income and poverty statistics? And then the fourth one down, just where can I find statistics about Nebraska counties and towns? Let's go and look at that one real quick. These are two that I put together and I hopefully have been able to keep them up to date in desperation back in the early days of the Gates grants because we just, we're having such trouble helping folks find things. So there's the American fact finder and then some other places that you might be interested in. And let me scroll down a little bit. Yeah, there's health facts online. So Marty probably knows a lot more about some of these. There are some other sites, some of them are just sucking in data from the Census Bureau, other places they're doing. It's survey data. Okay, we have a question from Diane. How would you use this to find out what type of population you have in your area to get people into your library? You just wanted to run a quick profile of your community. Let's go back to the, this would get, some of these links would help you with that. If you were at the Census Bureau website, I think if you went to where we were at the beginning, where we just used the quick facts box, you could have typed in your community and you'd be able to bring up those four tables that we saw that would give you information about population, income, that kind of thing. Is that what you had in mind, Diane? Yeah, the way I'm reading the question, and if Diane, you could clarify maybe as we're talking, that would be great, is okay, I've found all that data and how do I use it to actually get people into my library? And that might be the case of, I don't know exactly what data you can find, but that you were talking to me earlier. Maybe you want to do Storytime in the Vietnamese, if you could find out the ethnicity of the population you have and what levels are there. Is there spoken language data in the Census? Yes, there is. You may have to be in the 2000 level information, not the more, but there's language spoken at home. There are lots of tables you could, if you wanted to get into that level of specificity, yeah, and that's a good segue into, I think one of my last slides was just where to go to get help on this, and one thing you could do would be to contact us here at the Library Commission. There's another wonderful place you can go to ask for help, and that's the Nebraska State Data Center at UNO, and I don't know if that's a link you can actually go to from this slide, but the Center for Public Affairs, it's something that I've linked from that statistics page. We were just looking at. Yeah, there's contact information for them. They will help people if you have fairly complex questions. Dave Drews is very helpful, so is Jerry Diker. Every state has what they call a State Data Center Lead Agency, and in our state it happens to be at UNO at the Center for Public Affairs Research. They have annual meetings that anybody can go to where they do a little bit of training on what's new and cool with the census. They also offer more detailed level workshops. Usually they're held in Omaha, sometimes they have them elsewhere in the state, so that would be a good place to go for help if you had some really specific questions. Okay, well I work at an academic university. Yeah, we're trying to figure out what the needs of our students are. This is Diane from Elm University. I don't know, could census data work for students where are the students counted, I mean for census data? Are they counted back where they're from or where they are at the university? I think they're counted from where they are at the time the survey is taken. So like student population would be if you're living in the dorms, and Bellevue is primarily a commuter campus, isn't it? Am I correct with that? So be people living in the Bellevue area. You might also have a lot of online students, and I honestly don't know somebody who might be in another country or across the country. I don't know how you would be able to use census data to help you with that. Yeah, I would almost go to administration because they would collect all that sort of data for their students, and then you can focus on your specific students' needs. Yeah, and... The census data might be better, I'm kind of talking off the cuff here just a little bit for if the university is trying to figure out how it can help the larger community, then you can find out who's in the community that might be able to take advantage of, say, if you're a public institution. There is education level information, but obviously for confidentiality reasons, you might be able to get down as detailed to people who are ages 35 to 50, what is the average level of education in Bellevue? You might be able to find out things like that. You're not gonna be able to find out who needs... You could find out for Bellevue the what length, if there are large populations where there's a different language spoken at home. Things like that, just with the anonymity of it, you're not gonna be able to sort of profile an individual student at all. And it sounds like they did do a survey of their students already, they were just saying that there was other things. So I think that might give you a couple of ideas. Yeah, now there is, I think we've run out of time, but... A few more minutes. Okay, there's a really cool school district site also that the Nebraska Department of Education has that I happen to really like. So if we owe to that Nebraska, it says pay the incomes, Nebraska, such that, and scroll down, state of the schools report, or any of you familiar with this is put out by the Nebraska Department of Education. And what's cool with this is you can search by school district or even down to the school building level. So let's go up there and click on school district. And let's put in Bellevue, go down to city name, or well, city or district, it probably doesn't matter, and search. That's what's up here. Yeah, pick Bellevue public schools. Now look over on the left there. These are all the different types of information that they have gathered from the students in the Bellevue school district. We've got race and ethnicity information. We've got, are they migrants? And this would be K-12? Yes. Okay, so this would be K-12. I think we've got how many kids are in the school lunch program. So you could get some information at the school district level using this. Whether that would help you for potential college entrance. Oh, yes, the... I pulled up the school lunch for a free reduced price meals. Yeah, yeah. So I like this site a lot. And again, I resorted to this back in the early gates days when there just didn't seem to be anywhere else to find anything like local information about income. Any more questions? Yeah, we're just about out of time. Are there any other questions? Feel free, if you have a mic to raise your hand or we'll give you a moment here to type something in. Okay, we have a hand raised. We figure out how to do this here. Hi, Jan. Would you click on the race ethnicity on this screen please? You bet. Yes. Okay, now for your library person, I think it was Diane, you can look at how many books you have that are appropriate for this group of people. Do you have any Pacific Islander books in your library, for instance? This is how you get people in. You tailor your library to your community. Yeah, excellent suggestion, thanks. Thank you very much. Hands raised, one last check, no questions, outstanding. So Beth, is that your, that's your shield? Yeah, I'm done. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and say thank you to everybody for attending. We have recorded this session and we will be posting that recording. As always, I'm sure you can email Beth or call the reference desk and our wonderful folks here will be more than happy to help you find the information you're looking for. Krista, assuming she can dig out by next Wednesday, we'll be your host again next Wednesday and to be honest, I don't know what the topic is. So it'll be a little, maybe a little bit of a surprise or I'm definitely sure it's on our website for you to register. So Beth, did you wanna throw one more thing in? Oh, there is a brochure on the American Backfinder that you could actually print off. I don't know if any of you would find that useful but we'd have to go back here and show you how it is. We'll provide a link to that too in the bookmarks. There is a link to it in the list of links that you'll see. All right, well thank you everybody for attending and we'll call it a day. Bye-bye. Thanks.