1. The Urban Institute Urban Institute National Data Repository Randy Rosso May 12, 2011

2. The Urban Institute What We Are Offering Aggregate and point data (not microdata) Many administrative files, some survey

3. The Urban Institute What data are available? HMDA 1997-2009 Zip/County Business Patterns 2006-2008 NCES 1998-2008 ACS coming soon (for real!)

4. The Urban Institute Why Use Our Files – User-Friendly Standardized field names and file structure over time Descriptive field names Useful indicators with metadata and documentation

5. The Urban Institute Why Use Our Files – Geography Standardized geographic definitions over time Data already summarized at many geographic levels

6. The Urban Institute Why Use Our Files – Wide Range of Topic Areas Housing (e.g. HMDA) Economy (e.g. Census/BLS data on poverty, employment, unemployment, wages) Education (NCES schools data) Population/Demographics (Census/ACS)

7. The Urban Institute Why Use Our Files – Pre-processed Raw data difficult to manage: –Gigantic files –No “indicators” created (Poverty rate, Median loan amount, Pct. African American students) –HMDA: Thousands of possible indicators to create –ACS A nightmare to download and manipulate Table/cell references are cumbersome

8. The Urban Institute Lender ID Loan purpose (purchase, refinancing) Loan result (originated, denied) Raw HMDA Data

9. The Urban Institute Raw ACS Data 8,058 files to read-in for basic U.S. geographies

10. The Urban Institute Where can I find the data? Go to www.metrotrends.org/natdatawww.metrotrends.org/natdata

11. The Urban Institute Sample NCES Metadata...

12. The Urban Institute In the Future IRS Statistics of Income Section 8 Multifamily Housing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Building Permits FDIC-Insured Institutions More…

13. The Urban Institute Data Archiving/Sharing Formats.csv files to download? API? data management system (DDI)? –Collectiva –Nesstar –Dataverse

14. The Urban Institute NNIP Shared Indicators Will move national data files to NNIP website Need data platform for shared indicators too What is most efficient? What minimizes YOUR pain?

15. The Urban Institute DataVis New Urban Institute Guide to Online Data Visualization Resources: –http://datavis.urban.orghttp://datavis.urban.org

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18. The Urban Institute DataVis Database will be completed soon Will try to incorporate into new NNIP website Feedback welcome