Variable Selection

The variables available from SiteCD are reported on their own individual line. The denominator of the category (the sum of all of the selections in that category) is reported first and is a whole number. The subsequent variables are subsets of that variable and are indented. They are given in percents and in most cases will sum to 100%. See example below for the break-out of race.

Example:

Site Report of Race for 5, 10, and 15 mile radii 28 Brunswick Woods Dr, East Brunswick, NJ 08816

Race		164,397		671,000		1,389,371
	White		78.30 %		70.39 %		72.66 %
	Black		6.05 %		9.49 %		9.77 %
	Native American		0.10 %		0.17 %		0.17 %
	Asian		10.37 %		11.37 %		10.34 %
	Pacific Islander		0.03 %		0.02 %		0.02 %
	Other		2.84 %		5.93 %		4.61 %
	Two or more races		2.32 %		2.63 %		2.44 %

When groups of indented variables do not add up to 100%, we have noted it below. Occasionally there are no subsets or the subsets are not given in percents. As a default you will have all of the variables included in your report. You can, however, opt to display only a subset of the variables by selecting the Category of variables you want. Within each Category there are multiple sets of variables.

Variable Categories

When you select a variable category you get all the variables in that grouping. The groups are as follows:

Geographic Identifiers (Total Population in Urban and Rural Areas, Population Density)

Persons (Sex by Age, Groups Quarters, Marital Status, Residence in 1995, Population in 1990 and 2000)

Race (Racial Breakouts, Hispanics)

Households (Pop in Households, Number of Households in 1990)

Language (Language Spoken, Ability to Speak English, Citizenship)

Employment (Transportation to Work, Travel Time to Work, Employment by Sex, Employment by Industry)

Education (School Enrollment, Educational Attainment)

Disabilities (Disabilities by Age of Non-institutionalized Population)

Families (Children in Families by Parents' Employment)

Income (Household Income, Median Household Income for 1990 & 2000, Median HH Income by Race, Types of Income, Median Family Income for 1990 & 2000, Median Nonfamily Income, Per Capita Income for 1990 & 2000, Median Earnings by Sex)

Poverty (Population, Families, and Households below poverty)

Housing (Housing Units, Household Size, Average Household Size, Units in Structure, Year Structure Built, Year Moved into Unit, Number Bedrooms, Vehicles Available)

Renter (Median Rent, Average Rent, Inclusion of Utilities in Rent)

Owner (Value, Mortgage Status, Average and Median Value, Monthly Owner Costs, Median Monthly Costs, Monthly Costs as Percent of Income, Median Value of Mobile Homes)

Description of Tables

Population - total population and the breakouts between urban and rural. It also includes the population density.

Race - total population broken out by the 7 races. We have also included the Hispanic counts. The US Census Bureau does not consider Hispanic a race, thus it is a separate breakout and is not included in the sum to 100%. Because Hispanics traditionally mark off either "white" or "other" as their race, we have also included "White, Non Hispanic" as a race. Therefore, if you want to analyze the population of white vs. "minority", then you use the "White, Non-Hispanic" count (in the place of white alone) so that you don't double count the white Hispanic population.

Sex by Age - breaks the total population into Males and Females and then into the different age categories.

Population by Household Structure - describes the population, not the number of households. There are Families and Non-families. The breakout of families with children is only a partial list - there are also family households with either no children or with children who are over the age of 17. Thus the 3 subsets do not sum to 100%.

Family households are defined as 2 or more people living together who are related by blood, marriage or adoption. Thus is can include parents/children, siblings, grandparent/grandchild, married couple.

Non-Family households are predominantly people who are living alone. It also includes roommates who are not related or married to each other.

Group Quarters - are those housing facilities where many unrelated people live together. They can be institutionalized settings like jails, detention centers or psychiatric wards. Or they can be non-institutionalized like school dormitories, military barracks or nursing homes.

Marital Status - this universe will be smaller than the total population because it includes only adults over the age of 15. The assumption being that no one under 15 is married, divorced, etc.

Language at Home - this universe will be smaller than the total population because it covers only those over the age of 5. There are several language groups included. There is also information about the ability/inability to speak English. This variable tells you what percent of the entire population (not just those that speak a foreign language) doesn't speak English well.

Citizenship - there are three categories of citizenship status: Native Citizen (born a US citizen), Naturalized (foreign-born, later became a US citizen), and Not Naturalized (foreign-born and not a US citizen).

Transportation to Work - this is for the population over 16.

Travel Time to Work - this is for the population over 16 and only includes those who do not work at home.

School Enrollment - this is for the population over age 3 and deals with only those people who are currently enrolled in an educational institution. There is also a breakout of whether education used in the area is public or private school. In both of these tables the sum will not equal 100% because most of us are not currently enrolled in school, even if we are over the age of 3.

Disabilities - this deals only with the population over the age of 5 with a disability and who are not institutionalized.

Employment by Sex for the population over 16 - this deals with employment status (employed/not employed) and their armed services status, broken out by sex.

Children in Families by Labor Force Participation - this breaks-out the number of children in families, by whether or not they have parents in the labor force. Please note: one parent families with no parent working include both the unemployed or involuntarily non-working single parents, as well as separated or divorced stay-at-home mothers/fathers who are presumably supported by a non-custodial parent who lives elsewhere.

Employment by Industry - this gives you a sense of the types of industry that exist in your area.

Household Income - this includes how many households are in each of the income "buckets" as well as what the Median Household Income is for the area and then broken out by race. There is also information about where the income comes from (salary vs. others). There are also statistics on the number of families and the population who are below the poverty line.

1990 - 2000 comparisons - we have included population and household growth numbers so that you can see how many more/less people are in the area in 2000 than were there in 1990. We have also included a subset of income variables for 1990 for comparisons sake. Note: when comparing income from 1990 to 2000, one should adjust for inflation. For more information about the CPI and other BLS deflators, see http://www.bls.gov/bls/inflation.htm.

Occupancy - the number of housing units that are occupied vs. vacant. Of occupied housing units, the number of owners vs. renters living in occupied housing.