A User's Guide to the Socioeconomic Environmental Demographic Information System (SEEDIS),
Abstract
SEEDIS, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Socio-Economic Environmental-Demographic Information system, is an integrated information system for retrieving, analyzing, and displaying selected portions of large data bases. These include a wide variety of geographically linked data on the United States' population, economy, agriculture, employment, mortality, air quality, and energy production and use. For Corps of Engineers' planners, SEEDIS is primarily useful for obtaining demographic and socioeconomic data for economic base studies, social profiles and other plan formulation and evaluation tasks. Using SEEDIS Corps' analysts can: (1) Retrieve over 50,000 pieces of information at county levels of detail and over 1,000 pieces of data for sub-county levels of geography. (2) Transform SEEDIS data into formats useable by statistical analysis programs (SPSS and SAS) as wll as by popular microcomputer Spreadsheet programs (LOTUS 1-2-3). (3) Download SEEDIS files or transformed files to microcomputer using communications software. This manual guides a new SEEDIS user on a step-by-step tour through the elements of SEEDIS. This journey is illustrated by examples screens, each of which builds upon previous ones. The examples focus on a three county geographic area (the Topeka Kansas SMSA) and on data from the 1947-1977 County Data Book and 1980 Census summary tape files.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA168917
Entities
People
- Fredic C. Gey
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley