Featured Data
From WIRE
This page features data beyond poverty and labor market information that is of use to those in workforce development.
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Lake County Non-Profit Mapping Project
IFF partnered with a number of organizations in Lake County to conduct a visual analysis of Lake County's non-profit sector.
View a map of workforce development programs in relation to educational attainment level, one resource stemming from this work. On the right, see the map of all responding non-profit service sites against total population.
In 2010, The Lake County Community Foundation, along with Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County, the College of Lake County, and the United Way of Lake County approached IFF to undertake a project to gather data from Lake County non-profits. The goal was to create resources that would help these organizations, and the wider community, better understand the service needs of residents, and the capacity of the county service sectors to meet those needs. IFF conducted the research and provided the maps for the resulting data. For more information, and access to many more detailed maps of Lake County's non-profit landscape visit IFF's report page.
Educational Attainment
U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau provides data related to education in The 2011 Statistical Abstract. For a chart that compares educational attainment rates at the state level from 1990 to 2008, click here.
CWICstats
On page 5 of their fourth quarter 2010 dashboard report, CWICstats provided maps of Chicago Education Attainment Level by Local Area.
Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
The following is a map of individuals who have returned from the Cook County Jail after conviction and sentence, during the time period from July 1, 2006 to October 24, 2007.
This map was provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections and produced by David Olsen. Olsen serves on the Advisory Board of the Illinois Department of Corrections and works for the Department of Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago.
Finding Local U.S. Census Data
The U.S. Census Bureau provides the American Community Survey FactFinder, a resource for finding demographic, economic, social, housing and other pertinent information for over 7,000 different geographic areas nationwide.
To start searching for data with FactFinder choose a data set (five-year, three-year, or one-year estimates). Once selected, click the accompanying "Data Profiles" link. On the next page, select a geographic area from which to gather data. For one-year estimates, PUMAs, or Public Use Microdata Areas, are the most geographically-specific areas possible. An explanation and listing of Chicago PUMAs from the Chicago Rehab Network can help one decide what PUMA to use. For five-year estimates one can obtain data by census tract. Use the U.S. Census Bureau's Address Search to figure out census tracts based on addresses.
Footnotes
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