Participants get lunch and go to a breakout session. The aim of each session is to suggest possible NICS tools and methods to overcome challenges regarding small area (i.e., neighborhood) data access and use. (Examples of such tools and methods might include metadata standards, synthetic data sets, and larger sample sizes.) (2J3H)
Zilkha Room, The Brookings Institution (2J3Q)
February 16, 2005 (2J3R)
--Key Challenges --{nid 2J4M} (2JM8)
SYSTEM (2JCN)
- adopting a system to capture changes (2J4H)
- who is the audience? Who is the design for? (2J4I)
- how to convince people to share the data? (2J4J)
- Privacy concerns regarding data. (2J4K)
- Sorting through the inherit contradiction in the goals of organizations (2J7P)
- How to retain the grassroots effort of NICS? How to design a flexible framework (2J7R)
- How can we encourage collaboration? (2JCO)
- comprehensible user interfaces to find what you need and use what you find (2J4S)
STANDARDS (2JCP)
- comparable data and disclosure with diffent types of data, methodology (2J4R)
- What standards and how can we set them for data? (2J6Q)
- Defining a "small area"? (2J7N)
- What is the right level of geography to answer my question? (2J7O)
- Defining "quality" which is relative? (2J7Q)
UNDERSTANDING RESULTS (2JCQ)
- Building in the intelligence to understand the data (2J4N)
- Community input and communication around data to help with the quality issues (2J4O)
- Tools that help individuals make decision around quality of data (2J4P)
- How to help people not make stupid errors? (2J7M)
- Can not answer some basic questions i.e. what is the average rent? (2J7S)
- Users are not just looking for data but answers (2J7T)
- How will NICS be available and supported by the lowest level of users? What is the structure of support of the user groups? (2J68)
OTHER ISSUES (2JCR)
- there is more that we can do for small areas with the existing data but can't primarily because of staffing and funding concerns (2J5A)
- Data seems like a bad word in DC at this time (2J5B)
- CIPS related to sharing data reinforcing confidentiality protections (2J5C)
- Uniformity is system design, database architecture and user interface (2J5P)
- collection sustainability --keeping the information fresh and real time (2J5Q)
- To ensure that the products being developed are influencing decision (2J64)
- How do we develop a product at any scale that has viability in the private market? (2J65)
- recognition of low income asian american communities (2J4Q)
ACQUISITION (2JCS)
- How to engage identified organizations that have enterprise data that would support further analysis, but it is not sold? (2J67)
- data acquisition of administrative datasets,etc. (2J66)
--BRAINSTORMING-- (2J8G)
- OMB as a clearing house to define metadata and statistical data (2J8I)
- Develop a training guide to train users (white to black belt NICS user) (2J8J)
- Understand data within an analytical framework to make the data tell the story (a mediated discussion) (2J8K)
- Develop a top ten list of mistakes within the context of the framework. (2JCT)
- encourage collaboration by tying resource allocation to participation (2JGC)
- GASB might cause smaller municipalities to think differently about their payoff in lifetime account. (2JGD)
- Is PART a similar opportunity to make organization pay attention to metadata (2JGE)
- SWOT analysis of how programs are affecting infrastructure {nid 2JHP (2JM9)
- Need to do a market analysis to determine who the users are and what they need. (2JMA)
- Create 465 centers at the congressional district level and education projects (2JMB)
- Need to have some early success stories to establish the "best practice" creating competition against that best to acquire funding (2JMC)
- Small grassroots need support in creating metadata projects which is wasting time in moving forward with the real analytical work (2JMD)
- Can we provide a data structure that will provide value-add with rules for rolling it up so that communities can use it intelligently? -Repurposing the administrative data{nid 2JME} (2JMR)
- Create an opportunity for all organizations to post their own data. (2JMS)
- Funding a community statistics standards office, tying funding programs to those which subscribe to the centralized organizations. (2JMT)
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1) Similar challenges (2JN4)
2) how do you develop a system that adds value to all users. (2JN5)
3) challenges of small area data - what infrastructure needs to be in place to satisfy several stakeholders. (2JN6)
Strategies - (2JN7)
1) metadata - taxonomy 2) data policy and standards - (2JN8)
GASB 34 - is there an opportunity with GASB for data from states and local governments to role up. (2JNB)
3) funding and stability. What are the incentives that we can build in so we don't have to continually justify. (2JNC)
4) maintaining infrastructre to be able to challenge the truth of data systems that do not reflect specific subpopulations. (2JND)
5) Partnerships - CICs to help NICS (2JNE)
data tools - what is the user audience that we are retaining? (2JNF)
How do you integrate data that are coming from other sources. (2JNG)
There should be a user needs assessment or SWAT assessemtn. Also, foundations are a major stakeholder. (2JNH)
Blue group (2JNI)
Key challenges (2JNJ)
- metadata (2JNK)
- how to build capacity (2JNP)
- local data collectors have an agency problem interpreting the use of the data in collection (2JNQ)
Suggestion (2JNR)
- possibility of making private sector available through NICS and synthetic data sets (2JNS)
- universal metadata in a categorical classification i.e. "income" to categorize the definition of all types of income (2JNT)
- data quickly with users to identify the gaps (2JNU)
Tools (2JNV)