What is "Metadata"?

This page contains metadata - or information about the data - for the data layers in LEAN GIS.

Data layers used in the application include base map layers such as county boundaries, highways, roads and streets, city names, various DHS regional boundaries, State Assembly and Senate district boundaries, demographics for both Food Stamp Recipients and the general population, and channels for getting information to Food Stamp Recipients such as schools.

Data Layers
LEAN Regions
Demographics
Breast Cancer Early Detection Programs
Tobacco Control Regions
Assembly Districts
Senate Districts
Counties
ZIP Codes
Healthy Cities & Communities
WIC Agencies
WIC Grocery Stores
Food Retailers
Certified Farmer's Markets
Schools
Power Play Schools
Shape Schools
Adolescent Family Life
Food on the Run Sites
>40% NSLP Eligibility
UC Cooperative Extension Sites
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantees
Community Challenge Grantees
Local Incentive Awardees
School Health Programs
Healthy Start Schools
 
 
   


LEAN Regions

Description

LEAN regions work in partnership with regional coordinators to conduct local programs throughout the state. Each region has a list of counties that they serve.

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Region Region name

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Tobacco Control Regions

Description

Tobacco Control Regions work in partnership with regional coordinators to conduct local programs throughout the state. Each region has a list of counties that they serve.

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Region Region name

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Breast Cancer Early Detection Programs

Description

BCEDP regions work in partnership with regional coordinators to conduct local programs throughout the state. Each region has a list of counties that they serve.

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Region Region name

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Counties

Description

County boundaries.

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County Name County name
Website County's website URL

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ZIP Codes

Description

U.S. Postal Service ZIP Codes

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ZIP Code ZIP Code
P.O. Name Name of the Post Office, also the name of the city or town
County County name
State California

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Senate Districts

Description

California senate districts.

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District Senate district number
Party Senator's political party affiliation
Member Senator's name
Email Senator's e-mail address

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Assembly Districts

Description

California assembly districts.

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District Assembly district number
Party Assembly member's party affiliation
Member Assembly member's name
Email Assembly member's e-mail address

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Schools

Description

School locations and other information obtained from California Department of Education, County-District-School (CDS) file.

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Name School name
Type School type
District School district name
Address School's street address
City School city
ZIP ZIP Code

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Food on the Run Sites

Description

California Project LEAN�s Food on the Run campaign prepares teen leaders to promote healthy eating and physical activity on their campuses. Food on the Run students are encouraged to work with administrators and food service directors to create a healthy school environment.

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School School name
Region Region name
Contact Name of contact person
Organization 1 Organization name
Organization 2 Organization name
Address1 Organization street address
Ste/Rm/Apt Organization street address (line 2)
City Organization city
State State
ZIP  ZIP Code
Phone Contact telephone number
FAX Contact fax number
Email Contact e-mail address

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UC Cooperative Extension Sites

Description

University of California Cooperative Extension sites serve as "extenders" from universities and use all available resources to deliver innovative, creative and inclusive programs that respond to current and anticipated community needs.

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Name Organization name
Contact Contact name
Title Contact's title
Address Contact address
City Contact city
State  Contact state
ZIP Contact ZIP Code
Phone Contact's telephone number
Fax Contact's fax number
Email Contact's e-mail address

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantees

Description

Organizations (mostly school districts) receiving Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants.

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Organization Organization name
Address (Line 1) Organization address
Address (Line 2) Organization address
City Organization city
State Organization state
ZIP ZIP Code
Contact Name of contact person

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Healthy Start Schools

Description

The Healthy Start initiative has successfully established a regional network for the provision of training and technical assistance. For the past four years, each region has planned and implemented activities uniquely designed to fit the needs of grantees in that region

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School School district name
Type School type
District School district name
Address School address
City School city
ZIP School ZIP Code

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Community Challenge Grantees

Description

The goals of the Community Challenge Grant Program are to reduce the number of teenage and unwed pregnancies, the absent fathers that results from these pregnancies, and to promote responsible parenting.

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Agency Agency name
Director Director name
Address Director address
City Director city
State Director state
ZIP Director ZIP Code

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Local Incentive Awardees

Description

The Local Incentive Award program of the California Nutrition Network is designed to enhance the variety, type and frequency of nutrition education and physical activity programs offered to families with annual household incomes that are less than $20,000, or families who receive Food Stamps in California. Through this USDA matching fund program, the Network currently supports over $8 million in local Incentive Awards to schools/school districts, local health departments, Indian Health organizations, local government agencies, and other public entities.

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Organization 1 Organization name
Organization 2 Organization name
Contact Contact name
Address1 Contact address
Address2 Contact address
City Contact city
State California
ZIP Contact's ZIP Code
Phone Contact's telephone number

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Adolescent Family Life

Description

Organizations participating in the Adolescent Family Life program.

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Contact Name of contact
Title (Line 1) Title of contact
Title (Line 1) Title of contact
Title (Line 1) Title of contact
Title (Line 1) Title of contact
Address Contact street address
City Contact city
State Contact state
ZIP Contact ZIP Code

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Shape Schools

Description

Schools participating in the Shape Schools program.

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Name Organization name
Group Group type
Address Organization address
City Organization address
State Organization address
ZIP Organization address

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California School Health Centers

Description

School Health Centers provide primary medical care, mental health services and health education to students all over California. School Health Centers serve children in almost 600 schools and are located either directly in a school or on school grounds or are located nearby but have a formal relationship with on or several schools.

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Facility Facility or program name
Region Region number
Address Facility address
City Facility address
State Facility address
ZIP Facility address
Sponsor Sponsor's name
Services Services provided

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Power Play Schools

Description

The Power Play Campaign uses a multi-channel, community-based approach to encourage 9, 10, and 11 year old children and their families to eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day and to be physically active. The Power Play Campaign is implemented in six community channels including schools, community youth organizations, farmers� markets, supermarkets, food services/restaurants, and the media.

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Name Organization name
First Name First name of contact
Last Name Last name of contact
Address Contact address
City Contact city
State Contact state
ZIP Contact ZIP Code
Phone Contact's work telephone number

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>40% NLSP Eligibility

Description

Schools with 40% or more students enrolled in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Source is Department of Education (DOE).

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Name School name
Type School type (see school type in 'Schools' metadata)
District School district
Address School address
City School city
ZIP School ZIP Code
Pub Enrollment Number of public pupils
Free Number of pupils getting free meals
Reduced Number of pupils getting reduced price meals
Pct Reduced Ratio of reduced price meal pupils to the number of public pupils

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Healthy Cities & Communities

Description

California Healthy Cities and Communities focuses on the community and its total environment - including the physical surroundings, economic conditions, and social climate - as an arena for health promotion activities. The development of responsive public policies, which preserve and promote individual and community health, is key to the Healthy Cities and Communities approach.

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Name Name of city, town or community

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WIC Agencies

Description

Most State WIC programs provide vouchers that participants use at authorized food stores. A wide variety of State and local organizations cooperate in providing the food and health care benefits, and 46,000 merchants nationwide accept WIC vouchers.

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Name Store name
Address Store address
City Store location (city)
State Store location (state)
ZIP Code Store ZIP Code

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WIC Grocery Stores

Description

Most State WIC programs provide vouchers that participants use at authorized food stores. A wide variety of State and local organizations cooperate in providing the food and health care benefits, and 46,000 merchants nationwide accept WIC vouchers.

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Name Store name
Address Store address
City Store location (city)
State Store location (state)
ZIP Code Store ZIP Code

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Food Retailers

Description

Fast food restaurants, grocery stores and conveniences stores in California.

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Contact Name of contact
Address Contact's address
City Contact city
ZIP Code Contact ZIP Code
Phone Contact phone

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Certified Farmer's Markets

Description

Certified Farmer�s Market is a location approved by the county agricultural commissioner where certified farmers sell only those agricultural products they grow themselves. California Certified Farmers' Markets are operated in accordance with regulations established in 1977 by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

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Name Certified Farmer's Market (CFM) name
Location CFM Location
Days & Times Days and hours CFM is open for business
Address CFM street address
City CFM city
State California

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Demographics

Description

Demographics are presented in a number of layers which are based on census block groups. Block group is a type of 1990 census area geography whose size is between the larger census tract and the smallest unit of census geography, census block. Block groups are contiguous aggregations of census blocks. The LEAN GIS block group data layer was derived by address matching (georeferencing) the addresses of over 1,750,000 individual food stamp recipients, then performing a GIS overlay of the recipient locations on 1990 census block groups.  Data about individual food stamp recipients were aggregated for each block group, then attached to the block group geography as attributes. The aggregation process eliminates the possibility of showing information about any individual food stamp recipient.

There are a number of demographic layers available. Block group polygons are color-coded according to the class (range of values) to which they belong. Look at the legend to find the value ranges for each demography layer.

Sources of data: Food Stamp Recipient data was supplied by the Department of Health Services. Block group demographic estimate data was supplied by EASI, Inc.

Data Grouping Information:

It was necessary to group race and language data in order to make the Food Stamp Recipient data comparable to the EASI block group demographic classifications.

RACE Categories and their grouping constituents, if any

White

Hispanic*

Black

Asian:
Asian or Pacific Islander
Filipino
Amerasian
Chinese
Cambodian
Japanese
Korean
Samoan
Hawaiian
Guamanian
Laotian
Vietnamese
Other:
Alaskan native
American Indian
Asian Indian
None reported
LANGUAGE Categories and their grouping constituents, if any

English

Spanish

Asian / Pacific Islander:
Cantonese
Japanese
Korean
Tagalog
Mandarin
Other Chinese Languages
Cambodian
Ilcano
Mien
Hmong
Lao
Samoan
Thai
Vietnamese
Other:
American Sign Language
Other non-English
Other sign language
Armenian
Turkish
Hebrew
French
Polish
Russian
Portugese
Italian
Arabic
Farsi
None reported
*Notes on Hispanic as a racial category versus an ethnic category

The EASI data considers Hispanic to be an ethnic, not racial category. It provides estimates for the White, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Other racial categories; these add up to the total population for the block group. As a separate category, EASI provides the estimated Hispanic population. The people counted in the EASI Hispanic category are also counted in one of the four racial categories.

The DHS Food Stamp Recipient data treats Hispanic as a racial category and we have counted it as one of five large racial groups (White, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Other, Hispanic). The people counted in the FSR Hispanic category are not counted in any of the other racial groups if they chose to be identified as Hispanic.

Because of this disparity, comparisons of FSR Hispanic counts to EASI block group Hispanic counts were not done. We chose to present EASI Hispanic population as a percent of EASI total population as the Hispanic demographic metric.

Demographic Data Layers

Description

FSR % of Pop

Displays, as a percentage, the ratio of food stamp recipients to the estimated total block group population.

No. of FSR

Displays the number of food stamp recipients in the block group.

FSR Density

Displays the number of Food Stamp Recipients per square mile.

Prim Race Displays the most frequently occurring race of people living in the block group. Prim non-Wht Race Displays which non-White race occurs most often in the block group. Prim Lang Displays which language occurs most often in the block group. Prim non-Eng Lang Displays which non-English language occurs most often in the block group. Prim Race of FSR Displays which race occurs most often in the food stamp recipient population in the block group. Prim non-Wht Race of FSR Displays which race other than White occurs most often in the food stamp recipient population in the block group. Prim Lang of FSR Displays which language occurs most often in the food stamp recipient population in the block group. Prim non-Eng Lang of FSR Displays which language other than English occurs most often in the food stamp recipient population in the block group. Hispanic % of Pop Displays, as a percentage, the ratio of Hispanics to the total population in the block group. House Income under $20K Displays those block groups whose median household income is less than $20,000 per year. All of the preceding demographic layers have the following data fields accessible through the 'List Data' function.

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FSR Pri Lang The predominant language of food stamp recipients in the block group
FSR Pri Race The predominant race of food stamp recipients in the block group
FSR Pri non-White Race The predominant non-White race of the food stamp recipients in the block group
FSR Pri non-Eng Lang The predominant non-English language of the food stamp recipients in the block group
FSR Recipients The number of food stamp recipients in the block group
Population Estimated total population of the block group for the year 2000
White Population Estimated White population of the block group for the year 2000
Black Population Estimated Black population of the block group for the year 2000
Asian Population Estimated Asian population of the block group for the year 2000
Other Population Estimated Other population of the block group for the year 2000
Hispanic Population Estimated Hispanic population of the block group for the year 2000
English Speaking Population Estimated number of English speakers in the block group for the year 2000
Spanish Speaking Population Estimated number of Spanish speakers in the block group for the year 2000
Asian Speaking Population Estimated number of Asian language speakers in the block group for the year 2000
Other Speaking Population Estimated number of other language speakers in the block group for the year 2000
Median Household Income Median household income for households in the census block group for the year 2000
Pri Race Predominant race in the block group
Primary Language Predominant language spoken in the block group
Pri non-White Race Predominant non-White race in the block group
Pri non-Eng Lang Predominant non-English language spoken in the block group
Household Income 0 if the median household income is above $20,000/year; 1 if at or below $20,000

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