Andrew Hait: Invite everyone to this afternoon'' s. webinar on the COVID-19 Data Center. My name once again is Andrew Hait. I'' m an Economic expert at the United States Census Bureau at.
our headquarters workplace in Maryland. And also today we are going to be doing a couple.
of points. Initially, we'' re going to be offering an introduction.
of several of the key programs that we have that are offered in the COVID-19 Information Center. My coworker Billy Wager is going to chat.
about the demographic information from the American Area Survey that is in the COVID-19 hub. He'' ll talk a bit about the stats. that we especially selected and perhaps why those statistics were picked to be consisted of.
in the COVID-19 Data Hub the details that they can provide that can be useful to individuals.
who are attempting to comprehend the potential influence of the pandemic on our local neighborhoods.
and it'' s homeowners. Then, I'' m mosting likely to be taking control of and chatting.
about business data, the various other side of the Demographics Bureau, the financial info.
on the employer businesses and other freelance individuals that are consisted of in the COVID-19 Data.
Hub.In that portion of the discussion I'' ll likewise. talk regarding a couple of the programs that we stood at the Census Bureau especially.
made to accumulate info concerning the real effects of the pandemic on our houses.
as well as on individuals. After that I'' m mosting likely to go on and also really do.
a real-time demonstration of the current version of the Hub. Now I recognize when you all subscribed to attend.
this Webinar you joined to find out about the brand-new Version 2.0 of the hub. It'' s fascinating to keep in mind that really last. evening (around 10:00 pm) we launched Variation 2.1.
So today we'' re mosting likely to be speaking a little. bit about what ' s coming. A few of what I initially claimed was mosting likely to.
be upcoming we'' ve in fact currently released. As well as I believe that is type of indicative of.
exactly how not only liquid this hub has actually been however exactly how dexterous the job has been. As the pandemic has developed so have the statistics.
that we include in the COVID-19 Data Center. Version 2.0 was a significant update to the.
Center and also we'' ll talk a whole lot concerning what'we ' ve included in that update and what you can in fact.
usage from that upgrade; exactly how you can use that data.But I ' ll also chat a little bit regarding what we simply.
upgraded in Version 2.1. Lastly, we will give you a preview of some.
of the other things that are being available in Version 2.2 as well as in prospective future updates of the.
center. A bottom line that I desire to make after that (as well as.
I'' ll make it right currently )is that you all have a duty fit what sort of details.
is included in this center. The responses that we have gotten from our.
users in this certain program on this certain project has been indispensable. It has substantially recommended us on what info.
that we intend to consist of. And that feedback has not only come from private.
market information individuals however also from the federal government as well.So you ' ll actually see that in the demonstration of. the center. Ultimately, we'' ll be taking some concerns at
. completion. For those of you that linked through the audio.
broadcast we will be entering your questions utilizing the chat feature as well as we will certainly be resolving.
those questions at the end. For those of you who do that did in fact call.
know your phone we'' ll have the ability to take those questions at the end using the telephone. So, to obtain us started, I just intend to speak.
really quickly regarding what is the United States Census Bureau. You all would certainly have to be living under a rock.
to recognize that we have not that we did not just complete collection of data from the decennial.
census.Every 10 years we do a total matter of.
the United States population. And to a whole lot of Americans that is the major.
point that we do. If I had a buck for each time somebody stated.
to me, “” I understand what you all do it when every 10 years, what do you do the various other nine,”” I.
would certainly be retired now. As a matter of fact we perform greater than 130 monthly,.
quarterly as well as yearly and also routine programs every single solitary year. These include market or household-based.
studies like the decennial demographics however they likewise consist of a program called the American.
Neighborhood Study that Billy'' s mosting likely to be talking concerning in just a minute. This is a fantastic source that provides.
amazing comprehensive market, socioeconomic and also housing data that you all can make use of not.
only to comprehend the possible effects of the pandemic yet that you additionally can utilize in.
area financial development.Small entrepreneur make use of these data all the. time to investigate their markets and also figure out is now a great time as well as a great location to open up. a specific company I ' m thinking about? So, this is a fantastic source. It is a crucial data item that I send out a lot. of individuals to and with any luck you all are crucial customers of it also. Along with the American Community Survey,. though, we likewise carry out 58 organization surveys.
Every 5 years we do a full economic. demographics that determines every employer business in the United States, however we additionally do a census. of federal governments as well as a selection of various other programs.
Keeping that I ' d like to transform it over to Billy. that will certainly currently chat with us concerning the American Area Survey. Billy it ' s all your own. Billy Gamble: All right just waiting for the. presenter ball here. Okay well great mid-day everybody and also. thanks Andy. My name is Billy Gamble as Andy specified. I function in the outreach as well as education branch. here at the American Community Study office.And I wish to offer you a little bit of info.
concerning the American Area Study which is typically
described as the air conditioner and also what. it offers to the COVID center. Yet prior to that allowed ' s do some fast
background. info on the air conditioning. So the air conditioning is the nation ' s most existing trusted.
and also obtainable information resource for stats on'vital subjects.
And every year 3.5 million households are. checked and also the a/c assists to designate greater than$ 675 billion of government costs each. year. There are over 40 topics covered in the survey. and these topics support over 300 federal
federal government utilizes. Currently ACS data is launched every year through
. three crucial data releases. As well as this consists of our one year quotes,. our one year supplementary price quotes and our five
year estimates which is the information used. in the COVID hub.So on the previous slide I did discuss there. are 40 subjects covered in the air conditioning. The topics gathered can be organized right into 4.
major attributes containing social, market, economic and real estate characteristics. Social qualities consist of subjects such
. as impairment status, education and learning, language talked in the house and others. Our demographic features contain.
sex, age, race and Hispanic beginning. Economic attributes include topics such. as travelling to work employment condition, income and also others. And our real estate attributes include subjects.
such as computer and also Internet usage, real estate expenses, cars readily available and much more. So as you might already be able to identify. several of these subjects collected by the air conditioner can be made use of to gauge can be utilized for steps. for the COVID-19 hub to find prospective influences of areas that may be more affected by the. virus.In simply a minute I will look at some particular
. topics that were drawn into the hub itself. So now in enhancement to the various topics covered.
an also
better toughness of the air conditioner is the substantial geographic location of the survey gives. data for. So the ACS covers greater than 805,000 geographic.
locations when considering all three of its yearly data launches. So as you can see below on the
slide the air conditioner. covered locations overarching at the national level and also is all the means granular to the block. groups.And in-between there you can see that there.
are likewise states and also areas. So both states and areas are necessary. as these locations are actually pulled into the COVID hub from the air conditioning
. To enter details subjects in the COVID center. so from the 40 plus topics in the ACS we at first utilized incoming COVID relevant data demands. to help figure out subjects for the center for the center website itself. These consist of variables on possibly vulnerable. populations and variables offering a picture of the existing social and also economic landscape. These subjects were selected with the suggestion to.
give data to help choice makers concentrate their action efforts.So on this slide are the subjects from the air conditioning. that are in fact in the data hub
. As you can see they cover numerous areas and. are subjects that are relevant to COVID-19. Initially not every one of these subjects were component.
of the center yet with time we have actually remained to add subjects that relate to the pandemic.
and the population that are most impacted. So if you ' re curious about more details.
about the American Neighborhood Study and also the data that it in fact supplies as well as offers.
our ACS Web web page is a good location to begin. So on the'ACS Website you can discover our why.
we ask web pages which really offers even more details on a questions that are asked and also what data.
is acquired from those questions.You can likewise see a complete listing of our topics. in the air conditioner and also much more. As well as likewise on the slide as you can see we do. have a web link for the COVID 19 information hub undoubtedly right
there on our air conditioning homepage.
As well as please do keep in mind the ACS data and also the. COVID hub assists to show areas of possible impacts or areas that can be greatly influenced. by the pandemic. Today I ' ll turn it back over to Andy and also. he will certainly cover some programs that reveal actual effects
from the pandemic itself. Andy Hait: Great thanks so much Billy. So, as you can see the American Neighborhood. Survey produces a remarkable riches of data in their programs. We ' ve included a small portion of the. data from the air conditioner in the panel.And Greg if you can go on and also provide me the. round I will certainly go on as well as leap back over to the presentation. So amazing. Great, thank you a lot Greg. So', as I was stating, we generate a lot. of information at the Demographics
Bureau that can be used to comprehend the possible effects of the. pandemic in our areas. Our economic census, our Region Organization Patterns,. our Nonemployer Stats programs supply info about organizations in our states. and also counties and also cities as well as cities. And also those historical stats can give us.
a suggestion regarding the possible effects to those companies so we can anticipate this is the.
neighborhood that has a specific mix of specific kinds of organizations. This community could be a lot more most likely to be. affected by the pandemic than other communities.But in addition to those type of referral.
databases we additionally recognized at the beginning of the pandemic that we ' re mosting likely to have to. create some brand-new programs that not only gauged the
possible influence of the pandemic however the. actual influence as well. And also the really first of these programs that. we produced is a program called Service Formation Stats. Currently, BFS is a program that we ' ve really.
contended the bureau for rather time. As much of you already recognize, among the means. the Census Bureau preserves a total world of every known service in the United States.
is with communications and also partnerships that we have with other government firms.
Every single single week as well as month we get. details from the Irs on individuals that have actually spoken to the IRS asking for. a company notification number. Historically we have actually taken that info,. we ' ve utilized it to upgrade our organization register, and annually we create an inventory of all. of those people that created brand-new businesses during that calendar year. At the beginning of a pandemic, however, we'. recognized that these organization formations may offer us an actual understanding new businesses how.
start-ups, if you will, have been impacted by the pandemic.So, we really took this yearly program and. we ' ve transformed it into an once a week program that demonstrates how start-ups were impacted throughout. the pandemic.
As you can see on the slide, we consisted of some.
visualization of data and you can see at the actual beginning of the pandemic, we ' ve noticed. a marked decrease in the number of service formations as firms that were thinking about. beginning, decided to put their
intend on hold and wait until the pandemic has actually kind of worked out. down a little.
But if you looked at the a lot more recent data,. you ' d see that a lot of these companies have currently caught back up. In reality you can recognize this also as of week. 36 or for monetary year or fiscal year 2020( which this visualization on the right is. for )we saw a marked rise in the year to year percent change in the number of service. development. These are companies that would certainly have generally.
started towards the start or middle of the pandemic however held back as well as now have actually determined.
to do it a little later on.So, this is a great program in regards to producing
. stats on brand-new company. Currently in addition to those new services we. additionally recognized that we were going to have to do something special to gauge how tiny.
companies were being affected.
We understood that it was likely that small companies.
were mosting likely to be affected in a different type of means than bigger companies could be. So we stood a study called the Small company. Pulse Survey, or SBPS, that is designed to measure on a weekly basis the effects of small.
to local business of the pandemic. Like business development data, they. produced a dashboard on their internet site that permitted users to go in and in fact check out. some tabulated data. This information as you can see are revealed at the.
nationwide and also state level. There ' s additionally some chosen information offered. by city. And also these service data are tabulated. by each industry.
So, on the ideal hand side of the slide you. can see that certain industries have been influenced really in different ways than others. The 2nd to last bar on the right is
for. NAICS 72. That is the holiday accommodation as well as food services.
sector.This is the market that we ' ve all read about. as being considerably impacted by the pandemic. You can see just how much more these companies. had a huge negative effect at the very least since the day for these certain collection of data. It ' s interesting to keep in mind that NAICS 61 as well as. NAICS 72 are -and also 71'i’m sorry, are best behind NAICS 72. NAICS 71 is the arts, enjoyment, and also recreation. sector.
This is the market that a few of you might. have listened to lately is mosting likely to be qualified to get some added healing cash. to help these performing arts firms and others type of return on their feet. I also do personally find it fascinating to.
note that NAICS 22, which is the energies market, as well as NAICS 52, which is the money. as well as insurance coverage sector, have seen in a much reduced effect.
I think we had to be happy that our regional. energy companies did not see a marked decrease, did not see layoffs which that permitted.
us to have energies, electricity during this whole period. Now the 3rd program I intend to discuss. is our Family Pulse Survey.Like the Local Business Pulse Study, the. House Pulse Survey was developed to determine the influence of the pandemic on households, on. families, on individuals in the USA. Like the local business Pulse Study, they. have actually produced a control panel on their Website. You ' re seeing a screenshot of
it right here. One point I want to make though concerning the. Home Pulse Survey as well as their certain visualizations they ' ve created you ' ll notification. on the left-hand side of the visualization, there
are seven classifications, 7 different. questions that were asked on the Home Pulse Survey of about whether that. home experienced any kind of food scarcity or real estate insecurity or whether they'had. difficulty'paying for house expenditures– points along those lines.The seven concerns are simply a fraction of.
the overall number of questions that were asked on the Family Pulse Survey. There ' s much, a lot more information offered as well as. I would really motivate you to all have a look at their data web page and also in fact proceed. and also take a look at that information. So, I ' ve included below
on the slide some information. that links to both the actual visualizations here along with their data page where you. can access that information.
Now the fourth program that I wish to chat. around is our Neighborhood Durability Quotes Program.
This program was made to measure the possibility. influences of the pandemic in terms of the
strength of neighborhoods to manage the influences or. effects that are triggered by a pandemic.In developing this
program, they determined. 11 threat variables that were particularly associated to the COVID-19 pandemic. We understand that certain features of communities. added to whether that neighborhood was impacted in a greater means or in a minimal. method. Areas, as an example, that have very high. population density, the spread of the infection was much better in those neighborhoods.
So we applied these 11 danger variables to the. American Area Study information that Billy just spoke about as well as ultimately produced a. visualization that shows for each county in the United States whether that region is subject. to no risk factors( that you can kind of equate to being as extremely resilient )versus.
one to 2 threat elements or 3 or even more danger elements. The data in this program are being released. every single single- excuse me, for each and every as well as every geography county. As well as one of the points I desire to
make, a point. I intend to make regarding the neighborhood strength quotes, is of these 4 programs I ' ve. simply discussed, this is the one that is most likely going to live past the COVID-19 pandemic.Our staff that work with this program are already. considering they ' re already investigating using different danger factors to consider the strength. of areas to various other kinds of catastrophes. So if you believe regarding an area and its. strength to something like a typhoon, the threat factors that
you might connect. with the ability for that area to deal with that storm could be fairly
different. than the danger elements linked with that neighborhood dealing'with a worldwide pandemic like. COVID-19. So, we are in fact already servicing that.
As well as one extremely crucial factor I intend to make. is our staff are really thinking about learning through
you everything about the info that we. are collecting.What are those risk aspects that you think.
we should certainly be taking into consideration when we ' re assuming regarding caring this program onward in the future.
Currently, these 4 programs that I just talked. about are all consisted of on the COVID-19 Information Center.
And also in simply a min we ' re actually going. to jump out as well as I ' m mosting likely to reveal you what that center appears like. In addition to those four programs, though,. we likewise rather just recently stood two added data collections. And also among them measures info on just how.
state and also local governments have been impacted in terms of their sales taxation. The Home Pulse Survey and the Small Company. Pulse Study programs both assist us understand exactly how families as well as how small companies are. being impacted by the pandemic.But we additionally know that our state as well as regional. governments are likely being impacted. I understand in the state of Maryland where I live,.
the state has seen a significant decline in the sales tax obligations that they gather for gasoline. due to the fact that such a big portion
of us in Maryland are not travelling every solitary day to work. I frequently utilized to fill my storage tank more than. as soon as a week. I ' m now going practically 2 weeks in between gas. fill ups.That ' s absolutely mosting likely to be impacting my. state as they ' re not going to be accumulating sales tax obligations.
So, we created an unique survey that really. gathers details posting information on month-to-month state sales taxation.
And also I would really encourage you all to inspect. this out. The second and last program that I intend to.
discuss is the Regular Monthly State Retail Sales report. Numerous of you are possibly routine customers of. our MRTS Survey the Monthly Retail Trade Survey.
This is one of our economic sign programs. that gives exceptionally timely data concerning exactly how the retail market has been impacted by.
the pandemic. Taking a look at the MRTS data you can clearly see. that there ' s some retail related markets that have actually seen a significant decrease in their sales,. something like apparel shops, as an example, whereas various other retail markets, like non-store. merchants( what we usually assume of as on the internet shopping )has seen a boom in their industry.These Month-to-month Retail Profession Survey information are. vital to comprehending the nationwide impact of the pandemic however the information because survey. is just shown at the nationwide
level. We understood that the influence on retail sales. was not going to be consistent across all states so we are now releasing state level details.
on retail sales. And also you can actually see how retail industry is. being affected more in some states than others. Now to give accessibility to every one of this data,. individuals, obviously, could simply go to
the specific program web pages, and also I have offered the web links. to really access that data.And we understand that there are a few of you that. are most likely already doing that.
I understand at the very start of the presentation. a person asked an inquiry around are these data that are available in the COVID-19 Data Center. also offered in the Census Bureau ' s data API. The short answer is yes however the longer answer. is not all of them. Our data are available for download, as well as some. are offered in the brand-new API. And also while some users like evidently this. one certain customer is someone that knows with APIs and also fits drawing mass. volumes of data, we understood that a whole lot of customers were not mosting likely to have that degree of expertise.They were mosting likely to require to have some info. put together to them for their functions.
And what- were going to wish to go see visualizations. of the information so they might actually sort of contrast one area to one more. They were going to desire to have a kind of.
pre-format, if you will, of the information offered to them for download. So, the outcome of those
conversations is the. COVID-19 Information Center. What you ' re seeing on your slide today. are some screenshots from the COVID-19 Information Hub. As well as I ' m now going
to jump out of this PowerPoint. discussion and also really do a live trial of the hub for you so you can see what other. brand-new things that were included in Variation 2.0 of the hub versus what are the attributes that. were there from before.So, to obtain to the COVID-19 Information Hub, we go
to Census Bureau'' s main web page, http://www.census.gov. We placed our arrow over browse by topic and also
we click the Emergency Administration Link.This is presently where the COVID-19 center is
staying. When I click Emergency Monitoring the web page
is mosting likely to refresh. This is the page that we have been keeping
all the details about the various hurricanes and also fires and floodings and also various other disasters during
last year. You all recognize that we had a really energetic typhoon
season, to the factor that we in fact had to dip into the Greek alphabet. Yet this is actually where our coronavirus
web page and also details is offered. So, if you click the Coronavirus Pandemic
icon, after that proceed and click over here, we'' re really going to lunch our Coronavirus Pandemic
Source page. On this source page we have a couple of
things. At the extremely top we have a web link to Variation
2.1 of the COVID-19 Data Center. Just this morning (or late last evening) we
released Version 2.1 that includes some major updates to the hub, and you can see those
updates are in fact detailed below for you all to see.Below the link to the COVID-19 Data Center are
then the web links to those four programs that I spoke about– Organization Development Data,
the Local Business Pulse Survey, Neighborhood Resilience Price Quotes and the Household Pulse
Survey. These web links bring you over to the Program
web page for that particular program where you can access the visualizations that I was just
showing you. You can also access the raw information for download,
et cetera. Below there we have web links to the Census Organization
Home Builder Regional Analyst Version tool and after that listed below that we had some pre-defined deep
web links right into our data.census.gov system for you to access key details from the American
Neighborhood Survey. I'' m mosting likely to go back up right here to the leading as well as
I'' m going to click on the COVID-19 Information Center so I can show you what are what is the info
that we have in this center and also what are the points that we just recently included. So, at the extremely, very leading of the center we have
a web link to a document that informs you what'' s brand-new, what have we recently added and what'' s. coming soon.We belong for you to join to stay.
attached regarding this hub to obtain notifications when we'' ve made updates to it. And also this is that extremely important feedback web link.
that I stated. Please, please, please as you use information.
from this center and also you find things really valuable or maybe you locate some points that you desire.
to talk about, I would encourage you all to please and also to do that.Now below
these web links we have a number of.
essential stats about the population aged 65 as well as older, the uninsured populace as well as the.
number of services, both employer services (nearly 8 million companies with paid staff members).
and the 26 million or so independent individuals, what we called Nonemployer Statistics. Below there is what we call the Impact Preparation.
Record. And also this is actually where we'' re seeing the. first adjustment in Version 2.1 of the COVID-19 Data Hub. Several of you understand that we have actually consisted of details.
in this center since the most current vintage of the American Community Study as well as our financial.
programs. So, in this update we'' ve actually upgraded. the information to the most recent American Community Survey information. I ' m really satisfied to report that and also we'' ve. additionally updated our organization data. So, these stats here that utilized to be.
from the 2017 Region Company Patterns and also Nonemployer Data programs are now offered.
for the 2018 programs. We'' ve also included some statistics in the 2017.
Economic Demographics to the COVID-19 Data Hub.They were
not in here originally. Furthermore, if you had actually clicked on this bar.
chart before you would'' ve seen a chart that reveals information for picked four digit markets.
that are most likely being affected by the pandemic. We obtained a great deal of feedback from consumers about.
those industries that we chose, wishing to know why we had selected those specific industries. Did we think those were the just one that.
were being influenced? And what we recognized is that while those were.
really informative, looking at data at a broader to digit NAICS markets was possibly a much better.
way of doing it. So you can see we'' ve currently upgraded these visualizations.
to reveal info at the two-digit NAICS market level.All of these information can be downloaded as well as printed. as well as you can actually integrate this into your very own work. Now, this is a two page record. This entire 2nd web page includes information.
once again from the American Neighborhood Survey, some actually excellent info that assists people.
understand the possible effects of the pandemic. I do wish to quickly make a mention that this.
is where among our changes that we are intending on performing in the future is likely to occur. We understand that as we are moving right into vaccine.
distribution, that a few of the stats that we have in this platform that were beneficial.
to understand the spread of the pandemic, the spread of the infection throughout the United.
States, we understand that some extra stats may be useful to help recognize the distribution.
of injection across the nation. As an example, we understand already from looking.
at the Group 1A as well as 1B and 1C as well as Group 2 as well as Team 3 groups that line of work is.
likely mosting likely to play a function in sending out injection to Americans. So, we are taking into consideration including some extra.
statistics to the impact record that would assist users comprehend those occupations. Now, you'' ll notice that these data are.
readily available at the state level.The application immediately defaults to. New York City State yet the candidates can go on as well as transform the location to whatever state. they are interested in.
And afterwards ultimately you can additionally enter as well as look. at these statistics by region. So rather than taking a look at the data just for. Colorado, if I intend to especially look
at information for Boulder Region I can proceed as well as. click Rock Area and also currently we ' re really seeing the demographic and business information for. Stone Region, Colorado.
Below the Effect Planning Report we have links. to those 4 studies that I was discussing. For three of the four links we have in fact. built a second control panel that supplements the dashboard that is available on the BFS,. Local Business Pulse and the Neighborhood Strength Estimates pages. For the Household Pulse Study, the link right here. brings you out to the House Pulse Study page where you can go in as well as in fact browse. the information there. We place ' t really created a separate control panel.'for the Home Pulse Study.
And also in Version 2.1 you can see we ' ve currently added. floor tiles that especially bring you over to those state sales tax collections and those. monthly state level retail sales reports again.This platform is developed to be a main.
database for all lot of the information that we contend the demographics bureau to assist. people recognize the possible impacts of the
pandemic. Below these floor tiles we after that have these policy. maps. The plan maps allow individuals to search chosen. statistics that are displayed in that dashboard at the very top at an extra detailed level of. geography. So, as an example, you can see this map number
. one is taking a look at information on company businesses from area business patterns. If I cycle with this listing we will then. concerned details concerning the Holiday accommodation and also Food Solutions market.
This is checking out the sales per facility. as the color and the size of the circle is the number of businesses.If I desired to comprehend how is the distribution. of
food solution businesses in Texas, I might proceed as well as focus on the map. And as I zoom this map in the map is going. to freshen as well as we ' re going to begin to see area degree data. As well as we can do that further using a few of the. other maps. So this is a fantastic resource to type of imagine. the businesses and demographics of the locations that are most likely being influenced by the pandemic.
The really last of these 9 maps right here is a. Social Susceptability Index. This is in fact data that we have gotten. from the Center for Illness Control
, the CDC, that shows just how counties are prone to. particular issues.
Now these maps can certainly be shared. We ' ve included the share feature right below.
As well as due to the fact that this Website was developed for. us by Esri, all of the information that we ' ve seen so far is readily available for you GIS professionals. to be able to include into your very own platforms. Below there we'have actually integrated web links to. several of our vital data
sets. We understood that a great deal of users of the COVID-19. Data Hub were going to have an interest in watching this data online and we additionally knew that there. was mosting likely to be a great deal of people that would of intended to be able to download the information. and incorporate it right into their own tasks, right into their very own research, into their very own Internet. sites.So we had actually provided accessibility to a few of those.
information from this Highlighted Information Establishes page. And then way down below at the end of the.
web page this sort of a neighborhood data set search enables you to go in and also gain access to all of the. info that we ' ve integrated on the web page. I could go into business Features. tab as well as I could really go in and also download and install each of'the various information sets that we ' ve. included right into this center.
You might see below is our non-employer data. information, state level data and region degree data from the 2018 Nonemployer Statistics, the. NES program, the county company patterns, et cetera. Currently you ' ll notification that the downloads are available.
to you in both Excel documents layout and as an attribute layer. Once more, dealing with Esri, they ' ve been really.
terrific to collaborate with since they ' ve made the information offered into a function layer solution. so GIS experts who are made use of to utilizing the ArcGIS applications and ArcGIS online. can really incorporate this information into their projects. Currently the tail end of the center I wish to chat. about is the part that was
actually updated the most throughout Variation 2.0 of the hub.As we ' ve been chatting with federal firms.
regarding the work that we ' ve done on this hub, we had discussions with reps
. from'FEMA. So they were pretty satisfied with what we had. carried out in this COVID-19 Data Center and also they asked us if we would be interested in potentially.
hosting web links to several of the data sets that they have been constructing and also providing. as part of their job. Collaborating with the Argonne National
Labs, they. assembled a set of data sets that were available for gain access to and for download, however those data. collections were just obtainable to a restricted target market, individuals who had access to the Argonne website who. had a username as well as password to enter and do that, which was mainly federal agencies. What they actually desired was for these really. beneficial information sets to be exposed
to a much larger audience. And also as you can see we thought that this was. a terrific idea.We really assumed that supplying access to. these information collections to a bigger audience actually not just celebrated the worth of those data. collections themselves yet likewise commemorated the worth of mashing up Census
Bureau information with various other. data. As well as you ' ll notice from the Logos right here that. these information collections are not just from various other government statistical firms
like SBA, USDA and BLS. yet they ' re likewise from private-sector companies Vision Laboratory, Womply, Google also the American. Alliance of Museums to comprehend exactly how galleries possibly are being influenced. So, to reach this information, we click on the Open. Data Sets page.
As well as this'will currently bring us to a portal where. we can enter and access those 38 data sets that we have provided links to from the COVID-19. Data Hub. Those information collections are arranged right into 3 broad. groups. Every one of the data collections connected to service as well as. business economics are available by clicking on this tab.All of the data sets that belong to people. as well as houses( kind of the market data )are available under this tab, and finally. all the data sets that relate to federal government solutions are readily available right here. Below those 3 tabs
we have given a. pick link to eight of the data collections under that broad classification. So you can see for instance under this classification.
service as well as business economics we have the pay-roll -Paycheck Protection Program or PPP car loan. information from the SBA that consisted of a vital source that ' s readily available along with things like once a week. company closures from an economic sector business called Womply.
As you can see on the slide we provide you info. concerning the degree of geographic information that is offered there and also we ' ve discovered data web links. permit you to jump out as well as
go directly to that program carriers data establish page where you. can after that access that information. Now I will certainly inform you that
this is a giant very first. step I think towards making this information obtainable to an'target market.
The experience you will certainly have when you go to. each of these discover data links will certainly be various, but once again, you are going through the SBA Web. site or the BLS Internet site or the BEA Internet site or the Chance Insights Internet site to accessibility. these data.But we are already in appointment and also discussions. with FEMA and also others
to see if there ' s various other things that we can do to really supply. a lot more thorough accessibility to these information sets. Currently if we click among these tabs here. we obtain the full listing of all the data sets under that particular subject. So we can see under this Business and also Business economics. topic there'in fact 15 information sets– details from BEA, BLS, SBA,
et cetera. So you can see there ' s a great deal of data that. we have integrated right into this center from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I would really encourage you all to examine. these out. I have already talked with a variety of information. users that are already thinking regarding mash ups they wish to currently do since we ' ve made.
this data accessible to such a larger target market. So I ' m really happy of the reality that we made. the data accessible because it really celebrates the value that we all can bring to understanding. the possible influences of the pandemic. So, that brings me to the end of my main component.
of my demo.I ' m mosting likely to proceed as well as switch back over. to my PowerPoint slide to permit us to kind of close this out. So, we went through the various studies. as well as the different elements of the website. We spoke about the highlighted information collections. and how you can access those data in their
raw form.
Allow ' s currently close this out by discussing.
what ' s can be found in the future. Now as a number of you understand we are regularly.
updating these month-to-month COVID related programs, those 4 programs that I was speaking about
. We will certainly remain to apply updates to these. to the hub to show the most up to date data.
So, for instance, several of you may have seen. the news the other day that the Local business Pulse Survey, which just recently finished. Phase 3 of the Small Organization Pulse Study, is most likely mosting likely to be relocating right into the future. right into a Stage 4.
As a number of you know who have actually accessed that. Local Business Pulse Study information the inquiries that were asked on each of the three existing. phases, the initial 3 stages of the Small Company Pulse Study evolved over time.We began asking questions at the very start. but after that didn ' t make good sense to keep asking in Stage 2. Several of those concerns were removed as well as we. started including new concerns that made more feeling as the pandemic was progressing as was.- as it was changing.
That will remain to take place as we progress.
so users can see to it that were getting information out to you that can help you comprehend exactly how.
services are not only replying to however with any luck recuperating from the pandemic.
On top of that, we supply this upgrade to the. Region Business Patterns
, Nonemployer Stats, as well as Economic Demographics information. These were simply included Variation 2.1.
This was a what ' s coming slide. What ' s coming has in fact occurred so I ' m. really pleased regarding that.
And once again, we supplied those additional web links. to those various other Demographics Bureau programs that supply relevant details. The state tax sales tax collection and also the.'details on regular monthly state retail sales.We are also in the process of including a new. control panel from our International Data source program. We ' ve understood that in speaking to customers that. providing some information not only aided the USA yet also including some. of the data that we have available from our IDB
might be truly useful so we ' ve actually.
been in the process of doing that. That will likely be included in'Variation 2.2 of. the hub. And ultimately we are going
to be updating the. American Area Survey information to not only show the latest vintage which we '
ve currently. done yet likewise potentially include some added information variables that are not consisted of right. currently in the COVID-19 Data Hub however that might be truly helpful to people as we move forward. right into the recuperation from the pandemic.
I already mentioned and also teased you all little. about the reality that we'are thinking about some industry and occupation kind information but. I just wanted to mention that that ' s a work in progress.We ' re still working with that. So, to summarize our discussion today, I. want to thanks all for participating in. The Census Bureau has an amazing riches of.
data that can offer info on not just the potential impacts yet also the actual. impacts of the pandemic. Programs like business Development Stats,. Small Organization Pulse Study, Home Pulse Study, monthly state sales taxation. as well as regular monthly state retail sales records all give us
info about how organizations and. homes are in fact being impacted by the pandemic. We ' ve actually created a variety of America. Matters stories that feature some info from these programs that highlight things. like individuals who are younger and also are living alone are being impacted in a very different. means than folks who are living with somebody else, maybe with their household. So those sort of stats are actually remarkable. and also informative.I would certainly motivate you all to look into our.
America Counts website to see more regarding these various other tales that we ' ve written
. To understand the possible impacts of the. pandemic our economic programs as well as our organization, our
group programs like the American. Area Study, region service patterns, Non-employer Data and the Economic Demographics.
can give some actually useful information on just how households and organizations are being. affected or possibly being affected. And once again I desire to put out a large plug to. our folks in the Community Resilience Estimates Program; obviously this is a terrific program. that I ' m sure will certainly live well past the pandemic to understand exactly how resilient communities are. to not only the pandemic but also various other type of disasters.In completion, we developed this center to provide. data from these selected programs in helpful intuitive control panels and also maps where you can. browse the information as well as in downloadable resources. We really desire you all to be using this. information. As well as ultimately, as my last point right here once more and. repeatedly I claimed we want
your comments. We intend to understand just how useful this hub. is to you all, points that we carry here.
And also if there are added points that we. can do that would make these
information better to you and to other decision-makers in your. industry, in your neighborhoods we desire to listen to that. This has been an agile project has progressed. a great deal over simply nine or 10 months approximately that the center has actually been going.
So, keeping that I wish to claim thank you to you. all and also allow ' s see about going on as well as taking some questions.Coordinator: And as a suggestion … Greg P: Hello There Andy
, this is Greg, did you desire. to take some over the phone or some chat concerns first? What ' s your preference? Andy Hait: Yes, operator if you wish to see.
if folks have inquiries that they intend to ask over the phone if you want to state something.
concerning them entering their concerns using the phone. And while we ' re waiting for them to do that. we can take a number of conversation questions. That would be great Greg.
Organizer: Sure. If you such as to ask an inquiry right now.
You may press Star 1 as well as clearly tape-record your. name for question introduction. Once again to ask concerns over the phone lines. press Star 1 and plainly tape-record your name for concern introduction. Just a couple of minutes to see if we have concerns.
over the phone lines. Thank you. Greg P: Great thanks driver. And Andy so we ' ve got -we ' ve had an active conversation. line right here. Let ' s see below one inquiry can be found in as well as the. participant composed, “I ' ve had neighborhood partners ask why the Census Bureau isn ' t asking inquiries.
about masks …– allow ' s see below …– regarding mask wear in the House Pulse and Small. Business Surveys. Thoughts on consisting of that in the future?” Andy Hait: Yes, terrific inquiry.
So obviously the inquiry is that we are asking. every one of these programs are ones that we'feel we'can collect valuable information for and also. are questions where other information providers are not already asking that same inquiry. As beneficial as the information is that the Demographics. Bureau is gathering and also releasing regarding the influences of
the pandemic, we are definitely. not the only US federal statistical agency and even state firm that is accumulating details. on the effects of the pandemic. As well as of course, there are other companies that are. gathering info on points like mask putting on and also points like that. I know we ' ve all listened to the records regarding the.
impacts as well as exactly how mask putting on impacts the spread of the virus.Those are data that are actually being accumulated. to aid determine the influence of mask enduring others. So I would encourage you all to examine that. out. The 38 information establishes that we had included web links to. in the COVID-19 Data Center would certainly stand for a pretty significant share of the overall quantity.
of information yet that listing is not the complete listing. Even in the brief time since that listing has. been released I ' ve had a variety of customers that have called me and also said, “Andy I put on ' t. see the complying with information collection in your listing. How do we include a lot more information to this center
? “That ' s. component of that responses that I so assume is so crucial.So I would urge you all if there are
various other information establishes that you have recognized that you think would be valuable for us to add
below whether it'' s from your organization or your company or from your- one more information company that you ' ve identified please allow us understand, so excellent question.Greg P: Operator did
any type of inquiries are available in over the phone? Organizer
: Yes. I ' m revealing we have one concern; your line is now open.( Caller 1): Yes.
Andy Hait: Hello?( Customer 1): Can you hear me? Andy Hait: Yes I can.( Caller 1): Okay a couple of things. I am a farmer, a tree farmer as well as when you asked the 7 inquiries regarding the family home effect with the family survey are farmers being recognized regarding that since a few of this PPP and the Economic Disaster Finances, the EDL is not obtaining down to us so we are being affected.Andy Hait: Right. So
, I ' m sorry to listen to that'you ' re not seeing some of that.
What I would motivate you to do is check out the Household Pulse Survey Website to discover exactly how we actually pulled the example that we used to really send out to those households to be evaluated. The Census Bureau is actually respectable about just how we perform our sample surveys. I have invested 33 years operating in our financial directorate the Demographics Bureau and also I'' ve constantly been surprised regarding the sizes that we most likely to ensure that we have an excellent rep sample of organizations in our regular monthly as well as quarterly as well as yearly and periodic business surveys. I'' m certain the exact very same thing has actually also applied to the Family Pulse Survey so I wear'' t believe they especially excluded particular groups.Whether they over tested a certain area or not is a great question.
I would truly encourage you to take a look at that Household Pulse Survey Internet site to see how were the families selected, what was the example size of the Family Pulse Study because they gives you some sign of the number of households were likely selected for the samples, and so on. So yes I would motivate you to check that out. Now certainly when it comes to circulation of monies through these various different programs that have been established by federal companies like PPP as well as CARES Act, and so on those cash are being dispersed to those various communities in a selection of different ways.And among things I ' ll claim is if you
look at several of those additional
information sets that we ' ve now contributed to the hub you can see quite promptly how things like PPP finances were dispersed to services a little different
than the CARES Act cash was distributed. In many methods the cash was distributed to either
private cities or to regions or perhaps to the state overall or just how that money then received from the city or the areas or the state all at once to the specific families as well as businesses in their communities was rather left up to the neighborhood territory to in fact make that decision.So, there ' s a variety of different ways. The data is really pretty fantastic to recognize how we been
reacting to the pandemic and also perhaps how we should certainly be responding in the future. So hopefully I addressed your question.( Customer 1): Due to the fact that it ' s influencing also our vaccine circulation. Being country there ' s extremely couple of health centers and doctors sites. So as you ' re doing the 1A and also the 1B circulation of the 2 different vaccines profession, age and also area is affecting'us. Andy Hait: Yes, definitely.
I know that is the vaccination is being rolled out the different groups, the market groups that are being included in each of the circulation varies extensively
from state to state.I know in Maryland where I live teachers were included in one of our very first, our very first teams 1A and 1B whereas in other states instructors weren ' t mosting likely to be obtaining their vaccines till
possibly later. So, it ' s been a fascinating point. I assume in lots of methods we are'figuring this out as we go along and each state has actually been enabled to type of do'their own thing. We ' ll see exactly how that relocates forward right into 2021 so fantastic question. Thanks a lot for calling.( Customer 1): Thank you Andy. Andy Hait: You ' re welcome. Operator any type of other calls concerns on the phone? Organizer: I ' m currently showing no additional concerns at this time.Andy Hait: Okay Greg any type of various other conversation inquiries we can discuss? Greg P: Well let ' s see, we ' ve obtained a number of individuals thanks for
a helpful Webinar.
A pair concerns on social vulnerability.
One says, what are the top line distinctions between neighborhood durability quotes and social vulnerability? Andy Hait: Yes, that ' s a fantastic concern. So, to understand exactly how the Facility for Disease Control established as well as calculated that Social Susceptability Index I would really urge you to check out their Website. The links to that page is one of the links that ' s consisted of because listing of 38 information set web links. I wear ' t also intend to try to do it any type of injustice. I know that I won ' t do exactly how they calculate that index in any kind of type of means. For the Area Resilience Price Quotes Program though we identified what were those 11 threat variables that were the ones that were proper. As well as we then applied those danger variables to the micro
level information from the American Community Study. So primarily we took those threat variables, we took a look at the individuals responses from the American Area Survey we applied those danger elements to that and after that we then re-tabulated the American
Neighborhood Survey data to show to determine those locations, those kinds of tracts for instance that satisfied among the threat aspects or 2 of the threat variables or three or even more of the danger elements or for that issue none of the risk factors.So, we had a little bit more claim over what we determined And also a great deal of those threat aspects were determined. by appointments we had from other professionals, various other companies that said yes you require to make certain that you consist of age as one of the crucial risk elements or maybe you need to include information on population thickness as one of those key 11 danger variables. So again I ' d urge you to have a look at the documentation for the community durability price quotes, understand what the level of factors were and also again just how we used them to the data as well as moving on how we may change those risk factors relocating ahead to be ones that are a lot more proper for fires and also floodings as well as cyclones as well as twisters as well as various other kind of disasters that we experience in the US.Greg P: Okay.
One more concern is, Is a possible to get family pulse information not in the interactive tool as a time series or would certainly a customer have to enter into every week ' s table individually and also pull the information manually?” Andy Hait: Yes, that ' s a wonderful question. So
, the Family Pulse Study Internet site offers accessibility to downloadable data that can be pulled down so you can do this job yourself. And a number of those data collections are private period period information sets. Nevertheless, we just began launching a few of the” data from these studies in our API. To ensure that ' s a perfect use instance for somebody who may intend to pull information for several time periods possibly each week that the Family Pulse Survey was done on a specific subject that was asked in the Family Pulse Survey for that period.The API would certainly be an excellent means to enter and really gain access to that wider data or that'data across numerous time structures.
So yes that ' s a fantastic usage case for the API. Greg P: Okay a couple of concerns was available in on metropolitan as well as rural information. Exactly how do we obtain the metropolitan as well as rural information from the Pulse Home Study
information? Yes, so I am not conscious to be rather honest whether they published particularly the metropolitan rural outbreak in the Household Pulse Study information'. I know they have information at the national state, county as well as city levels however I ' m not sure if they really applied that urban country breakout on
there. Obviously, we do have various other geographical resources at the Demographics Bureau that would enable you to link a certain region whether with- whether or not that area was largely metropolitan or primarily rural.So you can kind of to that organization yourself but I wear ' t assume we really released the'data for the House Pulse Survey in the urban country breakout. What I would certainly urge you to do is please send me an email
. My e-mail address is right here on the slide right currently. Send me an email and also I will certainly ensure I obtain with our Household Pulse Survey folks so that they can address that question better
than I can. Greg P: Let ' s see.
I assume we covered the majority of them here. If I ' m missing out on people ' s question I ask forgiveness. Andy ' s information is on the screen there. However Andy that -that ' s most of the chat inquiries. Andy Hait: Okay. Billy did you wish to adhere to
up on anything may be that I covered throughout the discussion that you intend to provide some extra comments on? Billy Gamble: I believe I ' m all right for now'. There are a couple of chat inquiries that came in that I'addressed so my information is on our branch info gets on the our branch details is on the screen'so that individuals can feel participants can feel totally free to contact us by phone or email.Andy Hait: Great. Okay well once more thanks all a lot. If there is nothing else concerns, operator any kind of extra concerns for the phone? Planner: There are no inquiries online currently. Andy Hait: Great. Well again thanks all a lot for taking break
of your hectic schedules. Ideally I have teased you sufficient to make you intend to go out and have a look at this resource that we have developed for you to be able to access info concerning the effects of the pandemic.
Thank you all so much for taking time out of your busy timetables and also have a great afternoon. Coordinator: This will wrap up today ' s conference. All participants might currently disconnect.
Thank you for your participation on today ' s. telephone call.
