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[ii~~~j! INSIGHT MAPPING & DEMOGRAPHICS, INC. :I3[1~1 i~Ji'i!I.!ji!;t~, 17258JASPER CT., LAKEV1LLE, MN 5$044- (612) 898-1,63 . Socioeconomic Data Development Pro~ This project is a unique effort to develop and maintain a base of small-area demographic data for use in all types of neighborhood initiatives, school enrollment and boundary planning, community needs analysis, lifecycle housing analysis, and program design. This initiative seeks to fill a serious gap in the availability of quality data while also recognizing the growing demand for information to help understand the dramatic changes underway in many of our metro area neighborhoods. Key Concepts Through a series of information sharing and non-disclosure agreements, Insight Mapping & Demographics, Inc. has been granted access to information maintained in key state, county and local administrative databases. Included is information from school census files, utility billing records, county tax and dwelling data, driver's license, vehicle registration data, and others. . These data sources constitute the best and most reliable information about individuals and households in the Twin Cities. Insight Mapping's role is to merge these various data sets based on names of individuals, their addresses and property IDs. By virtue of the processing and application dates in the databases, our processing routines' sort out current from past residents, assign a head-of-household, and pull together profiles for each resulting household. These household profiles are then aggregated and summarized to a blockface level and all identifying names and addresses are removed. A blockface is defined as one side of a street between two intersections. Where a single blockface has fewer than three resident households, adjacent blockfaces are pulled together until at least three households are contained in the group. These summary profiles are then made available to our funding partners. None of the data on individuals or households is shared with any other party. From previous projects we know that we are able to develop profiles on 90 to 95 percent of the households in a community. Of those profiled households, we typically end up with dates-of-birth on 97 or 98 percent of the individuals in those households. Where data is missing or incomplete, household profiles are modeled using data from other similar households living on the same blockface. With completion of each project, the results of our analysis are checked with other available demographic sources for consistency. . Insight Mapping & Demographics retains no financial ownership in the resulting profiles. We serve the organizations that fund the processing and provide the data used in generating our neighborhood profiles. Beyond the initial development of the profile data, most of our clients anticipate the need to generate annual updates to our profiles. Insight Mapping is committed to providing continuing support to these projects.