Success StoryData Profiles for Statewide County Assessment
Data Profiles for Statewide County Assessment
Author: Julie N. Zimmerman
Planning Unit: Community & Leadership Development
Major Program: Staff Development
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Providing data for local planning can take a variety of forms – from working with individual counties to supporting statewide efforts. As part of the UK Extension County Assessment process, I developed extensive data profiles for each county in the state as well as a state profile and summary profiles with selected data for each of the Extension Districts. Each 4-page profile presents data on 92 different variables from 23 sources. Data are organized across 6 thematic areas: demographics; families and households; agriculture; jobs, economy and labor force; youth; and, health and wellness. In each section, the data were presented using 3 techniques: tables, graphs, and text. All told, the final data for these profiles contained 25,000 numbers spanning 226 columns and 726 individual charts.
Stories by Community & Leadership Development
Pioneering a paradigm shift from isolated evaluations of individual Extension programs to a focus on collective impact assessments
Extension excels at working across program areas and disciplinary boundaries to address the complex ... Read More
Redesigning the UK Extension Success Story Submission Form to Improve the Quality of Impact Reporting
An internal review of data in the Kentucky Reporting System (KERS) revealed that only 3% of a random... Read More
© 2024 University of Kentucky, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment