DATAG 2024 Summer Conference

The US Census Bureau’s 130 annual surveys document every aspect of the nation's population, schools, governments, economics, and businesses. The resultant 1.5 million tables of raw data are housed in over 50 publicly accessible portals. This hands-on workshop provides a broad overview of the most relevant portals available to professionals in education and the types of data housed within each one. Data portals like the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimate (SAIPE) Program are used to determine school district Title I funding. Data.census.gov provides data relative to disability, languages spoken at home, and caregiver academic achievement, allowing school leaders and boards to strategically budget and plan for early childhood intervention programs. Data on household access to internet and availability of computers in homes is found in the Digital Equity Hub and saved grant writers considerable time when applying for digital equity grants. My Community Explorer maps 12 risk factors associated with community resiliency, all of which align with academic success. We will also locate the data visualization directory. You will leave knowing where to locate a variety of different data portals, what information is housed in each one, and how to save and share results for grants, presentations, and mandated reports. Bring your laptop and take a deeper dive into the tables and maps that can be created in the Census Bureau's signature data portal, data.census.gov.