Center on Urban Poverty expands CAN DO database to 17 Northeast Ohio counties
Database provides researchers with census, HMDA information
November 15, 2004 | For more information: Jeff Bendix (216)-368-6070
 Residents of 17 Northeast Ohio counties now can access a wide variety of census and housing data quickly and for free, thanks to an expansion of the Cleveland Area Network for Data and Organizing (CAN DO) database from the Case Western Reserve University Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change.
Information in the database is now available for the counties of Ashland, Columbiana, Erie, Huron, Mahoning, Richland, Stark, Trumbull and Wayne, as well as the original eight counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit.
The Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change is part of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case.
CAN DO is a free, interactive web-based system containing a variety of data on social, economic and health-related conditions. Census, vital statistics and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data are available for all 17 counties.
Lisa Nelson, senior information specialist at the center, said that additional data sources such as child maltreatment, public assistance, juvenile delinquency filings and property data are available for Cuyahoga County. Crime data is currently only available for the city of Cleveland. Most of the annually-updated administrative data are current through 2003. CAN DO also includes U.S. Census data for 1990 and 2000.
Users can extract data at the census tract, city, village or township level or for an entire county. They can generate a table for printing, download the data into EXCEL for further analysis or generate a map. “Our new interactive mapping feature allows much more flexibility in generating and customizing maps to fit users’ needs,” Nelson said.
Visitors should begin their use of CAN DO at the User's Guide, which provides detailed information about extracting and using data, and step-by-step instructions to generate maps in the CAN DO system. The guide includes information about each of the data sources, how the indicators in CAN DO are calculated, precautions and caveats about each of the sources and a list of the indicators from each source that are included in CAN DO.
Users can access CAN DO via the Poverty Center Web site, http://povertycenter.case.edu. Comments and suggestions can be directed to Lisa Nelson at lisa.nelson@case.edu or by phone at (216) 368-4664.
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