PREV-STAT – The IPRC’s GIS in Prevention Service
Looking for specific demographic or risk and protective factor statistics for your county? Planning a presentation and need data or maps? Visit PREV-STAT.
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PREV-STAT is the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University's GIS in prevention planning service that creates a "statistical picture" of a community. PREV-STAT enhances the quality of prevention planning, grant applications, and community events. PREV-STAT will help you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your prevention efforts and get better outcomes.
PREV-STAT’s online GIS in Prevention data series is published annually. It presents statistics for basic demographics, like income and education, but focuses on statistics describing risk and protective factors for drug use. Drawing from a myriad of sources, including census and market research data, it compares your county to the state and the nation, as well as to the rest of Indiana’s counties.
The PREV-STAT’s custom service uses GIS to generate reports for selected geographic areas such as a neighborhood, zip code, town, school district or a region. PREV-STAT allows users to demonstrate the spatial relationships that exist among the data. Maps can reveal relationships between two seemingly unrelated issues or items. Representing data in map form makes statistics immediately meaningful and lead to better and quicker decision-making. PREV-STAT’s online and custom products allow you to convey your message dynamically in visual presentations for a potential funder, client, or a larger audience.
A total of 1,689 students from Indiana colleges participated in the Indiana College Substance Use Survey conducted in Spring 2016.
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