UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GEO 509
Spatial Analysis of the Lexington Youth
Initiative Survey
Community Partners: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice
Amanda Witbeck and Zachary Nicholas
1/1/2012
Community Partners Organization: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice
Group members:
Amanda Witbeck
amanda.witbeck@gmail.com
Zachary Nicholas
zsnich2@g.uky.edu
Community Partners:
Kerby Neill
tkneill@earthlink.net
Bruce Mundy mundy46@yahoo.com
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Table of Contents
Project Summary
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Needs Assessment Report
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Progress Report
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Data Dictionary
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Final Maps and Outputs
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Conclusion
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Project Summary
Our goals for this project were to create useable maps that can be distributed showing the
relationship between youth and accessibility to possible outreach programs for the Central
Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice in Lexington Kentucky. We took data from the
Lexington Youth Initiative Survey and created maps to show a spatial relationship of potential
youth service programs and the council districts in which they are located. We collected various
Excel files showing basic demographics for the area. We collected shape files for the Fayette
County council districts for 2012. We also incorporated 2010 LexTran routes to show the
accessibility issues of transportation to and from possible youth outreach programs. We gathered
information about churches and organizations in Lexington related to youth outreach and
geocoded the addresses from an excel spreadsheet into ArcGIS. In order to show the spatial
relationship of these outreach opportunities to each council district we joined the two together to
create chloropleth maps showing the priorities of the youth in the survey and the locations of
churches and organizations.
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Zachary Nicholas & Amanda Witbeck
KY Peace & Justice Organization
Youth Services Coalition Needs Assessment Report
1. Project background information
We are building maps of potential collaborations for youth services. We are seeking to
provide agencies that serve youth with a map of assets ranging from job training,
underutilized space, tutoring, recreational activities, transportation, and counseling.
Additionally, we will map the willingness of fore mentioned assets to contribute to the
coalition for youth services. These maps are a response to the Lexington Youth Initiative
Survey, administered by the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice (CKCPJ), which
is a coalition of peacemaking groups and individuals, incorporated in 1984 as a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization. The survey asked high school and middle school students to rank
their needs in relation to youth jobs, recreational activities, etc.
2. Goal and objectives
We are interested in examining the lack of available youth services in the northeast side of
downtown Lexington. We will be examining the locations of potential youth services assets
in Council Districts 1, 2, and 6, which would encompass the majority of the north east side
of downtown Lexington.
Additionally, we will be conducting a willingness survey in these districts to determine
their ability to provide support for the youth services coalition. An overlay of LexTran bus
routes will be included in each map.
3. Data acquisition and preparation steps
We were provided with the preliminary results of the Lexington Youth Initiative survey,
which was organized by the location of the respondent by police sector, street name,
council district, zip code, and the school where the respondent currently attends. The
results were also ranked by the needs priority of the respondents in relation to council
district.
We need to acquire the Lextran bus route data layer, school district data layer, city council
districts data layer, police beat/sector data layer, church locations data layer from LFUCG.
We will need to geocode the locations of the NGOs, theatres, community agencies,
university organizations, businesses that are willing to support the youth services coalition.
To find out this information we need to conduct a willingness survey. This survey will
include the following questions:
1. Do you have a community outreach program?
Who is the chair?
2. Are you able to provide a meeting space?
What kind of space/size?
Available weekends, week nights, summers, daytime
3. Are you able to provide transportation?
Bus/Vans/Cars
Available times
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4. Do you have a volunteer program that would be willing to assist with
events/training/transporting?
5. Could you provide bilingual support?
6. Could you provide job training/internships/apprenticeships/future
employment opportunities?
7. Are there any other services you would be willing to provide?
What type?
What times?
4. List of maps and analyses
 Maps of assets in Council District 1,2, and 6
 Willingness survey of assets
 Spatial analysis of Lexington Youth Initiative Survey responses to mapped assets
and willingness of assets.
 Maps of basic demographic analysis of census data
5. Steps required
Completed By:
Find assets related to priority of youth services in selected Council Districts—A & Z
Spring Break
(3/18)
Find overlays/ contact LFUCG--- Dr. W
ASAP
Police beat
Lextran
School districts
Churches
Create contact log which assigns specific assets to Amanda & Zach—A & Z
Spring Break
Conduct willingness survey of assets—A & Z
Spring Break
Clean up excel sheets—A & Z
3/22
Figure out how to use SSPS—A & Z
Spring Break
Map the survey response priorities per council district —A & Z
4/12
Make maps—A & Z
4/12
Do network mapping—A & Z
4/12
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Kentucky Peace & Justice Council
Progress Report
Amanda Witbeck & Zachary Nicholas
Tasks Completed:
-Established connection with Community Partner
-Decided on council districts to map
-Determined what data is needed from organization and the LFUCG GIS department
-Did some analysis of survey responses in SPSS
-Acquired some Church data
-Acquired some youth assets data from a list of agencies selected by United Way
- Geocoded Church and Asset data
-Created preliminary maps
-Sent email to, and made contact with, Joseph David of the Metropolitan Planning Organization in order
to attempt to acquire the LexTran Data
Problems & Questions:
-Acquisition of specific data
-LexTran, Council Districts, willingness of assets
-Unsure of when we will receive the LexTran data from Joseph David
-Unsure if we can retrieve a .shp file of Fayette Co. Council Districts
-Not yet certain on how to map the willingness of assets
-Scale of map: unclear of focus area for maps (initially was focus on council districts 1,2, and 6, however,
a majority of the assets we have started mapping lie outside these council districts)
-Limited time frame
-How to express location’s information in a more user-friendly way within ArcMap
-Issues of ethics in mapping locations of youth
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-What census overlays will be useful to organization?
-How do we show which areas are in most need with the most youth?
-How do we overlay SPSS results in ArcMap?
Summary of Mid-Project meeting:
-Have had to post-pone due to lack of data and meaningful results
-Plan to meet after our willingness survey phone bank
Changes to Project Goals:
-Will be doing less surveying than we initially intended to
-May have to exclude business willingness survey due to lack of time
-May not be able to include Hispanic resources as requested by Glenn Brown
-Will not be able to include mapping with police beats
-Will be mapping via Council Districts
Preliminary Maps:
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Kentucky Peace & Justice
Data Dictionary
Amanda Witbeck & Zachary Nicholas
Excel Worksheets:
-Orig_Survey_Data.xlsx
Acquired Feb 7
-Cleaned_up_Districts.xlsx
Acquired Feb 7 (made school names uniform and cleaned up data)
-Cleaned_up_Districts2.xlsx
concurrently)
Acquired Feb 7 (secondary file created so that we could work
-Cleaned_up_DistrictsWithaddress.xlsx
-Agency+RosterwithDistricts.xls
districts to church sheet)
-CounDisAnalysis.xlsx
priorities/dist)
Acquired Feb 7 (cleaned up with addresses)
Acquired March 6
(cleaned and started adding council
Acquired April 1 (excel formed from table Kerby sent us of
Kerby Data : Folder Containing Data Received from Kerby Neill
Agency.xls
Acquired March 6
List of United Way’s selected you agencies
Agency+Roster.xls
Acquired March 6
List of Agencies and churches
Copy of Police Beat.xlsx
Acquired Feb 7 Survey responses organized by Police Beat
Copy of Working LYI Data.xlsx
Acquired Feb 7 Incomplete
Council Table Rev.docx
Council Table.docx
Acquired Feb 7 table of top survey responses organized by Council District
Acquired Feb 7 table of top survey responses organized by Council District
Data Narrative Draft Rev.docx
LYI Final Report.pdf
March 6
Survey results and analysis
March 6
Lexington Youth Initiative final report
March 21
Exported to create an external image
Maps:
Church Folder:
Church1.jpg
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Church1.mxd
March 21
Churches.dbf
March 21
Churches.prj
March 21
Churches.shp
March 21
Churches.shp.xml
March 21
Created Address Locator-Arc Catalogue to Geocode
Churches.shx
ORGS Folder:
ORGS.shp
March 21
Created Address Locator-Arc Catalogue to Geocode
MAP1ORGS.jpg
March 21
Exported to create an external image
MAP1ORGS.mxd
March 21
Geocoding_Result.dbf March 21
Geocoding_Result.prj
March 21
Geocoding_Result.shp March 21
Geocoding_Result.shp.xml
March 21
Geocoding_Result.shx March 21
CHURCHORGDIST.jpg
Council Districts:
Council_Districts.mxd
councildistricts.dbf
councildistricts.lyr
councildistricts.prj
councildistricts.sbn
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councildistricts.sbx
councildistricts.shp
councildistricts.shp.xml
councildistricts.shx
councildistricts07.zip
Density:
Density.jpg
Density.mxd
Density.pdf
Densitylabel2.jpg
Densitylabel2.pdf
Gender:
HSGender.jpg
HSGender.mxd
HSGender.pdf
MSGender.jpg
MSGender.mxd
MSGender.pdf
Priority:
Firstpri.mxd
Firstpri.jpg
Firstpri.pdf
Secpri.mxd
Secpri.jpg
Secpri.pdf
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Thridpri.mxd
Thirdpri.jpg
Fourthpri.mxd
Fourthpri.jpg
Fourthpri.pdf
Firfthpri.mxd
Fifthpri.jpg
Fifthpri.pdf
Other maps:
ChurchORG_07CD.jpg
ChurchORG_07CD.pdf
ChurchORG_07CD.mxd
SPSS:
Survey Data.sav
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Acquired Feb 21
Final Maps
Maps created for the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice
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Conclusion
By creating maps using the data we were given and collected throughout this project we
were able to create a visual representation of the Lexington Youth initiative survey. These maps
show areas of limited accessibility to youth related services, as well as a strong need for more
transportation services. We encountered many limitations throughout working on this project.
Acquiring basic shape file data from the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government was
impossible until the very last week of our time frame. Recent LexTran shape files of bus routes
were inaccessible due to time constraints, but we were given access to the 2010 bus routes. We
were also given crime data from LFUCG during the last week of our time frame but were unable
to use it due to time constraints and format issues. Through creating these visual and spatial
representations, we hope to further this project and its pursuit. Hopefully our work will enable
the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice to further develop youth outreach and
community based programs.
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