Guide To Government Data

Readers will understand how to find, evaluate, and analyze data to solve location-based problems. This guide covers practical issues such as copyrights, cloud computing, online data portals, volunteered geographic information, and international data with supplementary exercises.

Analytics can make government work better—this book shows you how A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments provides demonstrations of real-world analytics applications for legislators, policy-makers, and support staff at the federal, state, and local levels. Big data and analytics are transforming industries across the board, and government can reap many of those same benefits by applying analytics to processes and programs already in place. From healthcare delivery and child well-being, to crime and program fraud, analytics can—in fact, already does—transform the way government works. This book shows you how analytics can be implemented in your own milieu: What is the downstream impact of new legislation? How can we make programs more efficient? Is it possible to predict policy outcomes without analytics? How do I get started building analytics into my government organization? The answers are all here, with accessible explanations and useful advice from an expert in the field. Analytics allows you to mine your data to create a holistic picture of your constituents; this model helps you tailor programs, fine-tune legislation, and serve the populace more effectively. This book walks you through analytics as applied to government, and shows you how to reap Big data's benefits at whatever level necessary. Learn how analytics is already transforming government service delivery Delve into the digital healthcare revolution Use analytics to improve education, juvenile justice, and other child-focused areas Apply analytics to transportation, criminal justice, fraud, and much more Legislators and policy makers have plenty of great ideas—but how do they put those ideas into play? Analytics can play a crucial role in getting the job done well. A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments provides advice, perspective, and real-world guidance for public servants everywhere.

This Handbook intends to inform Data Providers and researchers on how to provide privacy-protected access to, handle, and analyze administrative data, and to link them with existing resources, such as a database of data use agreements (DUA) and templates. Available publicly, the Handbook will provide guidance on data access requirements and procedures, data privacy, data security, property rights, regulations for public data use, data architecture, data use and storage, cost structure and recovery, ethics and privacy-protection, making data accessible for research, and dissemination for restricted access use. The knowledge base will serve as a resource for all researchers looking to work with administrative data and for Data Providers looking to make such data available.

Almanac of the 50 States is an annual ready-reference source, containing eight statistical profile pages for every State. The main portion of the book is a collection of 52 basic data profiles: one for each of the 50 States; one for the District of Columbia; and one for the U.S. in summary. The same format is used for each profile, which are collected State by State and presented in alphabetical order.Supplementing the profiles is a group of 92 comparative tables which list the States in rank order on 92 key characteristics selected from the individual profiles. Information for the Almanac of the 50 States comes from the latest reports of federal government agencies, augmented with selected data from the private sector. The book is updated annually.Each profile contains the following information:State Summary: highlights the important facts about the State. Geography & Environment: includes total area; highest and lowest points; federally owned land; capital city; largest city; state parks revenues & visitors; national forest land. Demographics & Characteristics of the Population: includes Census data on population; persons by age, race, sex, marital status; households & families; population projections to the year 2010; immigration & naturalization. Vital Statistics & Health: includes marriages, divorces, births, & deaths by major causes; abortions; physicians; hospital costs. Education: includes college graduates, school enrollment level; teachers & teachers' salaries; school receipts & expenditures; graduating high school seniors; higher education. Social Insurance & Welfare Programs: includes Social Security benefits & beneficiaries; Medicare/Medicaid enrollment & payments; Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; Food Stamps. Housing & Construction: includes housing units, occupancy; housing units authorized, value & housing starts; existing home sales. Government & Elections: includes major State officials; the governorship; State legislature; local government; voting age populations; vote for president; federal representation; women & Blacks holding public office. Governmental Finance: includes revenues by source; expenditures by object; federal aid by program. Crime, Law Enforcement & Courts: includes crimes & crime rates; arrests & prisoners; persons under sentence of death; court system. Labor & Income: includes civilian labor force by occupation & industry; employment & unemployment; average annual pay; hours and earnings of workers; union membership; personal income; federal income tax data. Economy, Business, Industry & Agriculture: includes patents issued and bankruptcies filed; Gross State Product; payroll by industry; farm data; federal expenditures; defense department payroll and contracts; principal commodities; employees, payroll and receipts for 12 major industry groups. Communication, Energy & Transportation: includes daily newspapers; computers and internet; energy consumption data; nuclear plants; highway mileage; motor vehicle registration; drivers' licenses.

Explains how the government works and the functions of its many parts, covering such topics as the system of checks and balances, the Constitution, and the division of state and federal powers.