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Census Bureau, Community Facts

Behavioral Objective: Learning How to Compare Local Community Information from the Census Bureau on the Internet

The resources for this interactive project were garnered from The U.S. Census Bureau, using Horizon, which links to Mansfield University. Census and Demographics at Mansfield University.

To get the Report on Community Data you will need to include at least step C, because the Census Bureau program requires cookies, and it is at that stage that the program identifies your computer. This is a minor inconvenience. You have to accept the cookie, by letting the government's computer read the identification number of your computer, but it's a minor inconvenience when you consider that they then give you access to all the census data and their programs to analyze those data.

  1. Go to U.S. Census Bureau: American Fact Finder
  2. Link to the US Census Bureau, Facts About My Community for information.
  3. Then link to Community Profiles Page to select data.

    1. Select U.S. by clicking in the radio button
    2. Then select the state by clicking in the radio button in front of California.
    3. To open up the next level of selection double click on the + in front of California.
    4. To select the County double click on the + in front of County.
    5. Follow the instructions from Community Facts, if you need help.
    6. You have now made your geographic selection, No. ! in the left-most frame.

    7. Select No. 2, Select Profile, in the left-most frame.
    8. Select D-2 Social Characteristics: 1990.
      This will give us the social characteristics, for the selected geographic area, from the 1990 Census Data.

    9. Select No. 3, View Profile, in the left-most frame. A Preview of the Form for the Social Characteristics Data appears in the screen below.
    10. Select Create, under View Profile, in the left-most frame, to create the report for the given geographic selection from the 1990 Census Data.

  4. Answer the following questions either from the report you created or from Compton Data.

    Click on any question number to see jeanne's answer to that question for the Compton Data.

    1. What percentage of students in this community were enrolled in private school in 1990?

    2. Is it true that the largest percentage of citizens in this community reporting in the 1990 Census had less than a ninth grade education? Were there any anomalies in the data that should be reported to make this information accurate?

    3. Did most people in this community live in the same house in 1985 as they did in 1990, or had most of them moved about?