Kansas Block Group Maps

This is the example for a paper to be presented to the Kansas City SAS Users Group July 1994 meeting. When you press "Go Get It", your selections will be passed to a SAS job which extracts 1990 Census data from a SAS dataset and sends it back to you in the form you requested. You must have a PostScript viewer such as Ghostscript in order to view a shaded PostScript map generated by this form. Click here for information on how to find Ghostscript for Windows 3.1.

Please select a variable

  • Total persons, based on sample
  • Total white population
  • Total black population
  • Total asian or pacific islander population
  • Total american indian, eskimo, or Aleutian population
  • Total hispanic population
  • Persons 18 and over who are foreign born not citizens
  • Persons speaking vietnamese
  • Total population that is 65 years and over
  • Total population that is between 18 and 24 years of age
  • Persons 18 and over that are high school graduates
  • Lived in same county in 1985
  • Those who walk to work
  • Persons who are self employed
  • Persons employed in fishing, forestry, or farming
  • Persons 16 or over in labor force, who are unemployed
  • Persons 65 and over who are below poverty level
  • Median household income in 1989
  • Median value of specified owner_occupied housing units
  • Median gross rent of renter-occupied units, cash rent
  • Total housing Units
  • Female households with children under 18 years
  • Housing units built in 1940 or earlier
  • Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities
  • Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities
  • Area of land in thousandths of a square kilometer
  • Area of water in thousandths of a square kilometer

    • Please select a format

  • HTML table.
  • fixed ascii file for spreadsheet input (use with "load to disk").
  • PostScript map (must have PostScript viewer - see above).
  • List the SAS Program.

    • The variable you choose to shade a map should usually be not related to the size of the geographic units shaded. Suppose, for example you had a state with absolutely uniform population density (call it North Suburbia). If you shaded a county map using total population, and some of the counties were twice as large as others, they would be shaded twice as darkly as the smaller counties. This would make them appear twice as densely populated which would be misleading. The appropriate shading variable would be population density- i.e. total population divided by the land area for the county.

    Other variables might use other divisors. The total number of black persons, for example, might be mapped as a proportion of the total population, or as a population density. In the first case the total population would be the divisor.

    Please select a divisor

  • NONE - Shade by raw number.
  • TOTAL POPULATION - (per capita).
  • LAND AREA - (density).
  • NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS (per household).

    • Please select one or more counties



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    Larry Hoyle, lhoyle@stat1.cc.ku.edu, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas