State Stats Over 3,000 data measures covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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INTRODUCTION SAGE Stats includes oer thirty years of data from more than 100 sources. It features more than 6,000 unique data measures.

Right no, SAGE Stats contains the folloing collections: State Stats Oer 3,000 data measures coering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

SAGE Stats has been built to make complicated data easy to eplore and discoer. It s the best place to start your research on location-based statistics.

1 INTRODUCTION SAGE Stats includes oer thirty years of data from more than 100 sources. It features more than 6,000 unique data measures. The measures are split into unique collections. Right no, SAGE Stats contains the folloing collections: State Stats Oer 3,000 data measures coering all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Local Stats Oer 3,000 data measures coering 1,726 cities, 3,142 counties, and 2,545 metropolitan statistical areas/core based statistical areas. SAGE Stats has been built to make complicated data easy to eplore and discoer. It s the best place to start your research on location-based statistics. PRODUCT TOUR Let s take a look at at the different sections of the platform. Homepage Site Tools Featured Data Series on the home page gie you a quick glimpse of hat is aailable in SAGE Stats, and the different ays data can be ieed: in maps, line graphs, scatter plots, tables, and more. You can also brose by topic there are 21 topics. 1

u CLICK on Religion. The Locale type of a Data Series (State, Metro, County, or City) is alays indicated in parentheses. SCROLL back up the page. CLICK on the Locale dropdon menu. SELECT Counties.

2 u CLICK on Religion. The Locale type of a Data Series (State, Metro, County, or City) is alays indicated in parentheses. SCROLL back up the page. CLICK on the Locale dropdon menu. SELECT Counties. Because SAGE Stats has so many Data Series, they can also be filtered by Category ithin a Topic. We are currently in the Topic of Religion. Let s filter to a category. SCROLL don until you see Catholic. y No you can see that the large number of Data Series has become a little less daunting! CLICK Catholic Adherence Rate per 1,000 people (County). y Data Series Page Map Vie The default ie for any Data Series is an interactie map. The localities are color-coded to allo isualization of the data. The darker the county, the higher its Catholic Adherence Rate per 1,000 People. u HOVER-OVER the counties to display the measures associated ith each county, and a ranking for each county. CLICK on the counties to stick the labels on the page for easy ieing. CLICK Clear Labels to remoe sticky labels. ZOOM in or out of the map using the zoom buttons on the left. CLICK the full-u.s. image to reert to the original map size. u 2

u CLICK AND DRAG the time bar to change the year of data you are ieing. CLICK the Play button to atch the map change across years! This is a key feature for those ho prefer to isualize data oer time.

3 u CLICK AND DRAG the time bar to change the year of data you are ieing. CLICK the Play button to atch the map change across years! This is a key feature for those ho prefer to isualize data oer time. CLICK Table to sitch to a Table ie of the data. u Data Series Page Table Vie u Tables in SAGE Stats can be sorted just like Ecel tables. Users can sort the data by clicking on column headers. Users can sitch the year of the data just like they ould in the Map ie, using the time bar. Oer 3,000 counties in a table can be daunting! Some of the more poerful tools in SAGE Stats are Table Filters." Within the Table ie, users can narro don the list based on metrics of their choosing. FILTER by population size, race, age and other options. The number of counties in the table has become much smaller! u 3

4 Data Series Page Chart Vie The Chart ie shos users a line graph made up of the Median alues from each year. Homepage Search NOTICE the Basic and Adanced Search options. u TYPE assaults into the Basic Search bar. NOTICE that search results appear in a dropdon menu as you type, for those ho kno eactly hat they ant. CLICK the search button on the right to display full search results. These tools allo users to refine their search results: Search ithin results, Narro by Topic, and Narro by Place Type, Data Type, or Unit of Measure. NOTICE the important metadata that search results gie you: Year coerage, Topic, Category, and Subcategory. CHECK your faorite search results. HOVER OVER Sae to Faorites and Sae to Eport Center. The Eport Center allos you to donload data in bulk. 4

Data Series Page Top Right Tools u NOTICE the top-right tools. From left to right, the buttons are: Cite No: Allos users to generate and eport citations in APA Bluebook, MLA, or Chicago styles.

5 Data Series Page Top Right Tools u NOTICE the top-right tools. From left to right, the buttons are: Cite No: Allos users to generate and eport citations in APA Bluebook, MLA, or Chicago styles. Share: Via . Sae: To your Faorites so you can re-isit research later (in My Account). To the Eport Center (more to come on that later!) Donload: Ra data to Ecel or CSV. Donload image in PNG or JPG formats. User Tips: Contain some metho dology and helpful hints. NOTICE the three tabs at the top of the Data Series. CLICK on the Related Tab. Not quite the data you ere seeking? Looking for more? You can use this tab to easily naigate similar data. CLICK on the Source tab. Like a nespaper article, the Source tab moes from the critical notes eery user needs to kno (such as an eplanation of the symbols in the "Notes" field of table) to more detailed information about methodology and geography for those ho need to go deeper. In addition to the general source listed at the top of eery Data Series page, source information is sortable by each indiidual year, ith a hyperlink to that year's data release. Additional hyperlinks to the original source are included. u 5

6 y SAGE Stats allos users to compare data in many different ays. It allos connections among scattered data! CLICK the Compare tab. z When it comes to local-leel data (cities, counties, and MSAs), researchers rarely collect data for eery single location in the U.S. So, in SAGE Stats, not eery city data series coers eery single city, etc. TYPE Bron County, NY and Monroe County, AL. CLICK Compare. { USE the Compare tab also to compare to ariables in a scatterplot, up to si ariables on a line graph for a single location, or to make a table that compares to years sideby-side. See the "Sample course assignments" section on the net page for eamples! z y Homepage Brose by Location u CLICK Location at the top of the screen. Users can filter, once again, by locale type. CLICK County. CLICK Baldin County, Alabama hich is the ery first county on the page. 6

to choose any Data Series from this page (your place ill be highlighted hen you arrie there) Surrounding and Associated Locations Similar Counties based on measures of your choosing.

7 Location Page Notice that eery locality in the product has its on page! SAGE Stats location pages are poerful. They proide: Map (interactie for metro areas, shoing boundary changes oer time) Key measures at a glance (like Land Area) Suggested Data Series: a snapshot of this place ith alues and ranks Ability to choose any Data Series from this page (your place ill be highlighted hen you arrie there) Surrounding and Associated Locations Similar Counties based on measures of your choosing. SAMPLE COURSE ASSIGNMENTS Area: Sociology 101: Introduction to Sociology (selected topics) z Class # 6 Gender & Race { Class # 7 Poerty & Health and Society } Class # 9 Education Class # 11 Authority and the State & Religion Class # 12 Science, the Enironment, and Society Class # 13 Collectie Action, Social Moements, and Social Change 7

8 z population compare Asian and African American populations { obesity eplore ho obesity rate in lo-income preschools compares county by county } library orkers 1. play oer time } graduation rate compare the aerage freshman graduation rate among Hispanic and Asian students 8

dollars ere spent in each on any specific type of disaster, or on all combined here 12

9 11 Catholic Adherent eamine the number of catholic adherents, particularly in the state of UT and to see ho it compares to the rest of the country 12 From the results, you can ie here FEMA spent dollars ere spent in each on any specific type of disaster, or on all combined here 12 precipitation 13 crime rate city 1. Compare Cities (e.g., Ne York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington DC) 9

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