Research Guides: Tools for Creating a Community Profile: Additional Resources

K-12 Schools

The State of Hawai`i Department of Education provides statistics on topics such as school enrollment, academic achievement, crimes in schools, and participation in nutrition programs like the National School Lunch Program.

Strive HI Performance System
Strive HI allows you to download data for a particular school, including enrollment, ethnic composition, special needs, disadvantanged, English language learners, language, math, and science proficiency.
HIDOE Data Book
This annual report highlights information on school performance and improvement in Hawaii's public schools. The report profiles academic events, trends, and outcomes. Featured are tables and figures related to demographic, financial, and educational performance. Also, comparisons to other states with relevant characteristics similar to Hawaii are provided to illustrate our state's relative progress or status on specific indicators.
Hawai‘i Child Nutrition Programs
This report shows how many students at each public school are eligible for free or reduced price meals.

Honolulu Police Department

Honolulu Crime Map
Arrest logs
HPD annual reports
Include statistics by police district

Hawai‘i Statewide GIS Program

Find maps of environmental, social, and economic topics: https://geoportal.hawaii.gov/

Center on the Family

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa's Center on the Family produces data on many aspects of families, including homelessness, and community profiles for school complexes.

The Homeless Population

Annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Homeless Count (2017-present)
Annual Homeless Person Point-in-Time Count (2012-2016)
Annual report from the State of Hawai`i Department of Human Services provides statistics by island and regions within each island.
Homeless service utilization reports
Report on the number of people who use services for homeless persons. Available from 2006-2018.
The State of Hawai'i Data Book
The official summary of statistics on the social, economic, and political organization of the State of Hawaii. The website has data dating back to 2000. Section 11: Social Insurance and Human Services has the most information about the homeless population and shelter use.

Native Hawaiians

Kamehameha Schools produces reports centered on the Native Hawaiian population on topics such as education and well-being.

Native Hawaiian Data Book
Provides statistical data on Native Hawaiian communities throughout the state, offering a numerical representation of the social and economic status of the Native Hawaiian population. Statistics ranging from education levels to income profiles provide a clearer picture of the current status of the Native Hawaiian community. (Office of Hawaiian Affairs)
Kipuka
Database that geo-references land records, including mahele records, land grant records, survey records, and tax map keys
Papakilo Database
Excellent source for original Mahele records including Native and Foreign Registers, Testimonies, Awards and Royal Patents, the Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Ethnological Notes (HEN), and the Hawaiʻi State Archives land index.

Health and Nutrition Statistics

Hawaii Behavioral Health Dashboard
This collection of behavioral health data is a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) Behavioral Health Administration (BHA).
Hawaii Health Data Warehouse
HHDW stores and organizes health data from Hawaiʻi Department of Health’s (DOH) vital statistics system and health surveys and make the data available to users for analysis through this website powered by the Hawaiʻi-Indicator Based Information System (HI-IBIS). It combines DOH data with Hawaiʻi data from other sources such as the Census, national surveys, and reports.
Food Environment Atlas
(Economic Research Service, USDA) Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality. The objectives of the Atlas are to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.

Exercise

Find the data for a community profile of a place in Hawai‘i (either a CDP or a tract). These are the pieces of information you need to find for your selected community:

Total population
Number of preschoolers
Number of school-aged children
Languages spoken at home
Number of residents over age 65
Ethnic breakdown

Tools for Creating a Community Profile: Additional Resources

URL

URL for this guide: http://go.hawaii.edu/dgP