Abstract
 Linking Student Record and Tax-Lot Data Track: GIS for Administration & Planning Author(s): Richard Lycan The Population Research Center at Portland State University provides demographic services for a number of school districts. One approach that we have found useful is to link student records to the tax-lot where the student resides, allowing us to join student characteristics and those of the property where the student lives. This is helpful to us in better understanding enrollment trends. For example we can find out what types of housing by age, type, value, and size most frequently house younger children. This can allow us to find comparables for a proposed housing development. Or we can look at characteristics of the children who have moved from one type of housing setting to another. Using this approach also helps build better bridges to community planners who work in the world of housing and land use but who would like to better relate their work to children and schools. Richard Lycan Portland State Univiversity Population Research Center Portland State Univ (PRC) Portland , OR 97225-0751 US Phone: 503-725-5158 E-mail: lycand@pdx.edu |
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