Census Dashboard Concept

Jonathan Brant
April 16, 2015

Census Dashboard Application

Introduction

The 1996 Census Demographics dashboard provides insight into several common descriptors of census respondents, including professional and personal characterizations. The hope is to allow users to get a general idea of how said descriptors over gender and age. A screenshot of the dashboard is shown below (note the left-hand controls and the tabbed content area).

Dashboard Controls

On the left-hand side of the dashboard, two controls are provided to filter the visualizations by gender and age range. All charts automatically update with the selected gender and minimum/maximum age, allowing the user to quickly see how their selections affect the characteristic distributions.

The age range slide accepts a lower-bound and upper-bound age. The minimum age available is 20 years and the maximum age is 90 years.

Gender selection options include the following:

  • Male
  • Female
  • Both (data is unfiltered with regards to sex)

Professional Metrics

The tab titled “Professional” contains key occupation and salary distributions. Specifically, the following metrics are provided:

  • Occupation Distribution - relative distribution of occupations
  • Work Arrangement Distribution - relative distribution of employment arrangements (e.g. self-employed, employed by corporation, etc.)
  • Mean Hours Worked per Week by Occupation - average (arithmetic mean) number of hours worked per week
  • Maximum Educational Attainment - count of people that topped out at the given education level

Personal Metrics

The tab titled “Personal” contains key non-professional/education related metrics, such as marital status and ethnic distributions. Specifically, the following metrics are provided:

  • Marital Status Distribution - relative distribution of relationship statuses for the selected gender and age range (this isn't just a binary indicator, but also includes widowed, separated, etc.)
  • Native Country Distribution - relative distribution of people born in a given country
  • Race Distribution - relative distribution of race/ethnicity