Instruction
Demographics can include population, age, gender, race, ethnicity, veteran status, foreign born persons, housing, family and living arrangements, computer and Internet use, education, health, economy, transportation, income and poverty, businesses, or geography.
You are a program manager tasked with learning more about your population’s demographics. Understanding these characteristics can result in developing or revising programs to more effectively target your community’s unique needs. For example, if you were to determine that unemployment and homelessness is higher in your area for those aged under 30 years old, you could more effectively target interventions and recruit partners tailored to that population (which may be different interventions and partners if your community saw increased homelessness in those aged 60 and over).
Your first objective is to examine your local data and compare it to your state and country. Go to the U.S. Census website located in this week’s readings list. . This website allows for a city, town, state, or county to be entered for data generation. Compare data of your local community (city or county) to data in your 1) state, and 2) country. If you are examining a country other than the United States, feel free to use another website for that information. Explore the different factors, topics, and ways to generate data (table, charts, etc.).
Select any five of the 18 factors shown: population, age, gender, race, ethnicity, veteran status, foreign born persons, housing, family and living arrangements, computer and internet use, education, health, economy, transportation, income and poverty, businesses or geography.
Length: 5-pages not including title or reference pages (tables, maps, charts, or other illustration that can be easily generated from the Census website)
Develop a comparative snapshot of your community. Compare and contrast the data by answering the following questions:
What do the factors you selected tell you about your community as compared to your state and country?
What are two to three main problems your community might be facing? Provide descriptive statistics to support your choices.
Why do you think your community may be facing these problems? Consider your population, historical happenings, changes in major employers, or other events.
How might this census data be used to help in program development to combat these problems?
References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.
You may use additional information from library sources or the Internet and be certain to cite these sources.