1. How to Allocate Continuation Education to Reduce Unemployment in LA City  UP 206A Introduction to GIS  Instructor: Professor Leo F. Estrada  TAs: Nic Jay Aulston, Peter Capone-Newton Lu

2.  1. Why investing on continuation education a good idea to reduce unemployment?  2. Building up Education Need Index in Los Angeles City  3. Strategies to help people with a higher continuation education need --people close to schools --people far from schools

3. Part 1

4. Study Area

8. VariablesBSt. DeviationBeta (Constant) 4.363.234 Poverty Rate.041.003.281 Black or African Rate6.027.555.218 Hispanic Rate3.670.526.162 Education Below High School Rate.048.011.093

9. Unemployment Rate Index = 4.363+ 0.041*Poverty Rate+ 6.027*Black or African Rate+ 3.670*Hispanic Rate+ 0.048*Education below High School Rate

12.  Helping the poor?  A high correlation of these 2 variables in statistical testing (.395 at 0.01 significant level)  Cause & Result  Help people according to their race?  Racial Oriented Policy & Social Inequality

13. Invest on Continuation Education to help people!

14. Part 2

15.  Add real unemployment distribution into new index  Add school distance into new index  Education Need Index= School Distance*1 + Unemindex*1 + Unemployment Index*1

16. Building Education Index Map

18. Part 3

19.  For people who live within a ½ mile distance or have transit access to continuation schools, Identify them and Patronize them.  For people who don’t have access to schools, it is more efficient to build schools at where they cluster to help them.

20. Identify People Within Education Facility Service Area

23. Unem ploym ent Rate Low Educat ion Rate Povert y Rate Hispa nic Rate Black Rate 15.2219.8182.8 Analysis: 1.High percentage of Hispanic people 2.High Low education rate 3.High unemployment rate 4.People don’t have limited access to education resources 5.Have highway nearby but no transit stops 6.One out of ten people reported poverty in last 12 months.

24.  Most people are within continuation education service area.  More money need to be invest on improve the lessons or improve people’s awareness of going to school.  One or two continuation education schools need to be build.

25. Models

26. Metadata

27.  Map1: Inset map  Map2: Charts and Images  Map3: Graduated symbols  Map4: Creating indices  Map5: Original data (continuation school geocoded), Modeling(project and raster), Spatial analysis (school distance), Creating indices, Graduated symbol  Map6: Hotspot Analysis  Map7: Geocoding  Map8: Buffering, Dissolve  Map9: Hillshade, Attribute sub-set selection  Map10: Select by polygon