Data Sources

Links to Data For Grant Seekers

A grant application usually requires a needs assessment that includes data about the target population and the problem you are trying to address.  Below are links for the data sets most often cited in grant proposals:

2007 Comprehensive Plan Data

Other Data Links - Douglas County

• Children First Data Books

      2007 Data Book - What's Good for Kids is Good for Business  Douglas County page
      2006 Data Book - An Issue of Fairness:  Reducing Health Disparities  Douglas County page
    
      2005 Data Book - The Status of Oregon's Children: Oregon's Health Challenge:  Fighting Childhood Obesity  Douglas County page
          
       2004 Data Book - The Status of Oregon's Children: Health and Safety (For Douglas County see page 32)
          
      
   

• Oregon Progress Board
      1.  Oregon Benchmarks: A Progress Report on Oregon's Racial and Ethnic
           Minorities (Nov. 2002) PDF (108K) - Word (2040K)
      2.  2003 Benchmark Performance Report - Full Report 
       3.  2005 Benchmark Performance Report - Full Report 
       4.  2007 Benchmark Performance Report - Full Report 
   

• 2002 County Data Book
  Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services
   

• Northwest Area Foundation - County Indicators
   

Other Data Links - National and Oregon

• Kids Count -
        Customized Reports:
            1.  2007 Data Book
            2.  Census Data Online
            3.  County-City-Community Level Information on Kids

• Northwest Area Foundation - Oregon State Indicators

• Child Care Research Partnership Child Care & Education in Oregon and Its Counties: 2000

• ChildTrends - Child Trends is a 25-year-old nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families.

• America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2006 - A compilation of statistics about children's economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

• America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2004