To view the Profile for your county, click directly on that county.
The Indiana Prevention Resource Center's free service called PREV-STAT uses GIS software and data from a variety of sources to create county profiles and customized project r
eports, including maps and tables. PREV-STAT enables you to understand the characteristics of a place, to locate a group of people with particular attributes, or to study a subset of the population of a given locale. Analysis can be done at any level from the state to the county, block group, zip code, neighborhood, or based on any arbitrary selected boundaries. Alternately, a radius can be drawn around a site. The greatest power of PREV-STAT is its ability to zoom in on the very small geographic area!
GIS empowers the prevention landscape by attaching threads to statistics and tying them to precise locations on earth. These locations can be potentially very small, like your neighborhood or the mile radius around your program site. GIS gives faces to the statistics by allowing you to study specific groups of people. You can ask either "Who lives here?" or "Where do they live?" Ask "Who lives here?" to learn about people in a specific area (e.g., your county, neighborhood or school district). Ask "Where do they live?" to find out about a target audience you seek to serve, (e.g., single female-headed families with incomes below $30,000). GIS in prevention helps make statistics more meaningful and persuasive.
GIS in Prevention, County Profiles, Series No. 4 (2007) Greene County
Cover, Title page, and County Map
Citation for referencing
Front Materials
Introduction: Methamphetamine in Indiana
PREV-STAT Geographic and Historical Notes:
Archival Indicators of Risk: Commmunity Risk Factors: