innovative data collection techniques for public school boundaries
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Innovative Data Collection Techniques for Public School Boundaries. Management Information Systems Conference Presented by Tai Phan, Andrea Conver & Amy Ramsdell NCES, Sanametrix & Blue Raster. School Boundary Geodatabase History. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
INNOVATIVE DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
BOUNDARIES
Management Information Systems Conference
Presented by Tai Phan, Andrea Conver & Amy RamsdellNCES, Sanametrix & Blue Raster
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School Boundary Geodatabase History
Continuation of the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS) Headed by Prof. Salvatore Saporito, The College of William & Mary David Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center www.sabinsdata.org
First release in the SDDS Map Viewer in May 2012 2009-2010 school boundaries for the top 350 districts
Census Bureau is summarizing the data by school boundary
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Current Data
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School Boundary Technologies
Using ArcSDE 10.1sp1
Using ArcGIS Server 10.1 EC2
Python (Arcpy)
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Data Model
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Data Processing Workflow Collect boundaries Dissolve boundaries into a 1 to 1
format Associate boundaries with NCESSCH
ID Perform QA/QC Sync data to the Cloud
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School Boundary QA/QC Procedures
Confirm that all regular schools have a boundary
Confirm that all attributes are correct and correspond to the NCESSCH school ID
Confirm that every geographical area is served by every grade
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Contact and Data Tracking Application
Tracks all contact between the district and the Census collection team
Stores original data type
Records the date completed and user name for each processing step
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Public School Boundary Collection and Verification
Collect boundaries for all 13,000+ U.S. school districts
Combination of data collection efforts by Census and a “group-sourced” mapping effort
The 2013-2014 school year will serve as a trial year
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School Boundary Collection Workflow
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Public School Boundary Collection and Verification Tool Demo
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Census Bureau Tabulations
Block rectification to create publicly available population counts and related information
These boundaries can be used for custom tabulations that meet the Census Bureau’s disclosure policies
Provide population counts at the school attendance boundary level
Product is not the same boundary lines as delineated by the districts
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The Significance of School Attendance Boundaries
Benefits to the Districts
Benefits to the State
Benefits to social science
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Moving Forward Changes will be made to the workflow
and tools based on process reviews and user feedback
The process will become easier and easier as more districts use the online collection and verification tool
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For More Information
Andrea Conver(202) [email protected]
Amy Ramsdell(703) 842-0177
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