Hi.
My name is David Kraiker.
I am a Geographer and a Data Dissemination Specialist at
the United States Census Bureau.
Now we're going to take a look at what we call the SAIPE tool.
If we come up here to the URL
and we put into our URL www.census.gov,
it will bring us to this website,
and we just come over here
to Surveys and Programs, right in the middle tab.
Come down here to the bottom,
right here where it says Small Area Income and Poverty
and click on that.
It brings us to a page called a Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, SAIPE
or SAIPE Program.
Really, what I want to do is scroll down just a little bit,
and right here where it says SAIPE Interactive Tool, I click on that,
and it will load, and then up here,
to the upper-left of the map, there are
four little arrows, and you click on that, and
that will make a full-screen map of the United States
that we can look at.
So, over here, what this does on the left,
it says Poverty Rates or Income,
and we have different options right here. Now it's showing us
all ages by state and counties.
So, you can see the whole of the United States,
but
I really want to show you
school districts, because we've just spoken about school districts
in this module. So, I click on
the left.
There is a chip here halfway down. It says ages 5 to 17
in Families School District.
Click on that,
and it will change that map for you.
It will show us all the school districts in the United States.
So, if we look at that from far away,
over on the East Coast of the United States,
you can suddenly see that
here's Pennsylvania right here, where I have my cursor,
and north of the Pennsylvania line,
you can see it's much darker. So, we have smaller
school districts,
and below that,
south of the Pennsylvania line/Maryland line,
we have like a wider/lighter colored area, and that
generally means that school districts are larger. So, let me just
use my little mouse key,
my mouse, and I'm using the wheelie
thing in the middle of the mouse, and I'm scrolling in.
So, we can just take a better look, and it does take,
you know, 30 seconds for the image to catch up. So, here it is. I'm going to
move the image a little bit.
I hold down my left
mouse key cursor, and I kind of drag this.
Okay,
so, we're actually looking at an area that has New Jersey right here,
Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, and if you
can notice,
anywhere that is north of the
Maryland/Pennsylvania line
where Pennsylvania and New Jersey are, you can see very small school districts.
So, these are areas that we talked about earlier
in the module
where the school districts tend to follow municipal
boundaries. Not always, but they tend to.
Notice New York City
up here. I'm holding my cursor there right now.
New York City is all one school district. So, it looks very large,
but now look further south, or lower on the map,
and anywhere in Maryland or further south
in Virginia, you can see that many, many of the school districts are done
countywide or half a countywide. So,
you see larger areas,
and it's a different sort of system
for creating their school districts than what you see
north of the Mason-Dixon line. So, that
is something you can look at.
Just out of curiosity, if you hover over one of these with your cursor and click on it,
it gives you the SAIPE
estimate right there. So, the poverty
estimate for -- and if we look on the left over here, it says Ages
5 to 17. So,
that's the poverty rate. So, if I hold this here
for Cecil County Public Schools, it's 10.8% or wherever I hold this,
I will see that estimate for that school district.