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12.31.2001 00:10
Up next: More detailed data in 2002
• Incomes, employment and property values will be among the figures due for Census Bureau publication next summer.
BY DAVID HERZOG
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE
-- The figures released this year from the 2000 census showed the big picture of how Rhode Island's population had changed in size and composition during the 1990s.
The census figures that will be released next year will provide a more detailed portrait of Rhode Islanders as they enter the 21st century: their incomes and employment, and the value of their homes -- down to the neighborhood level.
The information has been long awaited by businesses, community planners, and academic researchers, as well as providers of social services.
For instance, some of the data will show the level of neighborhood poverty by age group -- something that social-service providers need to know to develop their programs.
"It's a real gold mine of information if you figure out how to read the data and get at it," says Jane Nugent, vice president for research and information at the United Way of Southeastern New England.
Since the data go down to the neighborhood level, she says, the United Way can zoom in on inner-city areas for a precise profile of community needs before allocating money to agencies.
"What we look for in that data," says Nugent, "is the kind of information that will help us fill out the social-demographic picture of the state."
In the business world, Citizens Bank, for one, plans to use the newly released data to help determine the banking and investment needs and opportunities in different communities, says Kathy O'Donnell, a Citizens spokeswoman.
The U.S. Census Bureau collected the information from the longer of the two 2000 Census forms. The longer form went out to roughly 1 in 6 households during the 2000 head count. Its questions addressed social and economic information on everyone in a household, as well as financial and physical information on the housing unit.
The Census Bureau used both the longer form and the less detailed form to count the U.S. population, and tabulate people by race and Hispanic origin. Most states, Rhode Island included, are using the data to redraw legislative boundaries.
Next year's release of census information will take place in the summer.
The Census Bureau makes its data available on the Web at http://factfinder.census.gov.
The Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program also plans to post comparison tables from next summer's release, on: http://www.planning.state.ri.us/
Up next: More detailed data in 2002
• Incomes, employment and property values will be among the figures due for Census Bureau publication next summer.
BY DAVID HERZOG
Journal Staff Writer
The census figures that will be released next year will provide a more detailed portrait of Rhode Islanders as they enter the 21st century: their incomes and employment, and the value of their homes -- down to the neighborhood level.
The information has been long awaited by businesses, community planners, and academic researchers, as well as providers of social services.
For instance, some of the data will show the level of neighborhood poverty by age group -- something that social-service providers need to know to develop their programs.
"It's a real gold mine of information if you figure out how to read the data and get at it," says Jane Nugent, vice president for research and information at the United Way of Southeastern New England.
Since the data go down to the neighborhood level, she says, the United Way can zoom in on inner-city areas for a precise profile of community needs before allocating money to agencies.
"What we look for in that data," says Nugent, "is the kind of information that will help us fill out the social-demographic picture of the state."
In the business world, Citizens Bank, for one, plans to use the newly released data to help determine the banking and investment needs and opportunities in different communities, says Kathy O'Donnell, a Citizens spokeswoman.
The U.S. Census Bureau collected the information from the longer of the two 2000 Census forms. The longer form went out to roughly 1 in 6 households during the 2000 head count. Its questions addressed social and economic information on everyone in a household, as well as financial and physical information on the housing unit.
The Census Bureau used both the longer form and the less detailed form to count the U.S. population, and tabulate people by race and Hispanic origin. Most states, Rhode Island included, are using the data to redraw legislative boundaries.
Next year's release of census information will take place in the summer.
The Census Bureau makes its data available on the Web at http://factfinder.census.gov.
The Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program also plans to post comparison tables from next summer's release, on: http://www.planning.state.ri.us/
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