SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS 2005

This dataset is a combination of social service oriented addresses from
the Yellow and Super Pages online.

What is Geocoding?
Geocoding is term used to describe the act of address matching.  Geocoding
is the process of finding a geographic location (x, y point) for an address
(such as street number and name, city, state, and ZIP Code) on a map.
Geocoding is based off the typical address scheme for the US, in which one
side of the street contains even house numbers while the other side of the
street contains odd house numbers.

The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location
of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and
street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using
the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side
of the street the building is located.

Geocoding Accuracy
The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural
areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of
addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent
along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban
areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas.
Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually
more reliable than those in rural areas.

For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly
off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others
may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses
are distributed evenly along the route.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

Spatial and Attribute Information

Social Service oriented facility locations were obtained from the 
online Super Pages and Yellow Pages in 2005. GeoPlan
downloaded this data in text file format and converted it to a 
dbf.  The dbf was then geocoded against ARC Logistics Route 
GDT Roads and converted into a shapefile with the FGDL Albers 
HPGN map projection. (See "Map Projection Parameters" below).

Process Steps for Yellow Pages Social Service Oriented Locations:

-Searched for social service oriented addresses in www.yellowpages.com
-Selected social service oriented addresses under following categories:

Social Services
Child Care Services
- Child Day Care Services (5316)
- Day Care Centers (629)
- Montessori Child Development Centers (169)
- Nursery Schools (43)
- Preschool Centers (2541)
Individual & Family Social Services
- Adoption Services (451)
- Child Abuse Information & Treatment Centers (2)
- Child Related Social Services (1065)
- Crisis Intervention Centers & Services (345)
- Disaster Services (3)
- Emergency Social Services (112)
- Family Counseling Services (1518)
- Family Counseling Services Marriage (100)
- Family Service Agency (6)
- Geriatric Social Services (64)
- Individual & Family Social Services (685)
- Service Leagues (3)
- Social Service Centers (2371)
- Social Services For The Handicapped (34)
- Social Workers (588)
Job Training & Vocational Rehabilitation
- Community Service Employment Training Program (1)
Miscellaneous Social Services
- Social Services (112)

Process Steps for Super Pages Social Service Oriented Locations:

-Searched for social service oriented addresses in www.superpages.com
-Selected social service oriented addresses under following categories:

 Community & Government

    * Social & Human Services (15196)
          o Organizations (1522)
                + Individual & Family Services Organizations (89)
                + Children's Services Organizations (57)
                + Youth Services Organizations (20)
                + Social Service Associations (43)
          o Counseling (4418)
                + Marriage & Family (2828)
                      # Adolescent Counselors (30)
                      # Divorce Counseling & Mediation (40)
                      # Marriage & Family Counseling Information & Referral Services (34)
                + Child & Adolescent Guidance Counseling (23)
                + Child Therapists (20)
                + Counseling Centers (13)
                + Stress Management Counseling (223)
                + Individual Counseling (132)
          o Community (1249)
                + Community Services Agencies (32)
                + Community Services Information & Referral (3)
                + Community Action Agencies (3)
                + Community Centers (242)
          o Residential Care Facilities (650)
                + Retirement Communities & Homes (484)
                + Retirement & Life Care Centers (115)
                + Residential Care Facilities Information & Placement Services (2)
                + Homes & Institutions
                      # Children Homes (7)
                      # Group Homes (82)
                      # Maternity Homes (3)
                + Shelters (2)
          o Crisis Intervention (289)
                + Family Crisis Intervention Services (270)
                + Women's Crisis Intervention Services (5)
          o Social Workers (127)
          o Health & Welfare Agencies (16)
                + Health Agencies (19)
          o Individual & Family
                + Child Care Services (5978)
                      # Child Care Centers (701)
                      # Child Care Information & Referral Services (66)
                      # Child Care Agencies (29)
                      # Babysitting (82)
                      # Child Care Consultants (11)
                      # Nannies (78)
                      # Home Child Care (44)
                + Senior Citizens
                      # Senior Citizens' Products & Services (662)
                      # Senior Citizens' Centers & Organizations (144)
                + Adoption Agencies & Services (288)
                + Child Support Collection & Enforcement (24)
                + Adult Care (333)
                      # Adult & Elderly Sitting Services (31)
                      # Adult Day Care Centers (281)
                      # Adult Foster Care (33)
                + Homeless (20)
                      # Housing Assistance (7)
                + Abuse
                      # Abuse Information & Treatment (14)
                      # Child
                            * Child Abuse Information & Services (12)
                            * Child Abuse Treatment Centers (11)
                            * Child Abuse Hotline (2)
                      # Domestic Violence Information & Services (45)
                + Foster Care (42)
                      # Child Foster Care (3)
                      # Foster Care Agencies (1)
                + Parenting Information & Education (26)
                + Social Companion Services (6)
                + Social Consultants (3)
                + Sexual Harassment Awareness & Prevention (1)
          o Social & Human Services Information & Referral Services (163)
          o Clinical Social Workers (5)
          o Women's Information & Referral Services (2)
    * Government Offices (1424)
          o Social Security Services (227)
                + Social Security Counselors & Representatives (223)
                + Social Security Consultants (6)
          o County Government Offices (791)
          o Federal Government Offices (76)
          o State Government Offices (400)
    * Public Health & Safety (1257)

-All addresses from sections above were copied and pasted into a
 text file, which was then formatted so that it could be imported
 into Excel and converted to a database file format.
-The addresses were geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT Roads
 Shapefile created using FGDL Albers HPGN map projection (See "Map
 Projection Parameters" below).

(A5) Some Information from the 2004 geocoded data set was 
retained; this data was retained for three reasons: 

 1. The Yellow Pages and Super Pages Online are paid 
advertising sites, some facilities may wish to discontinue 
their advertising with those companies but they may still 
exist at that address/location (i.e. Churches etc). 
 2. The address might have changed slightly (i.e. suite 
number, building number, or zip code) which may have 
affected the addresses ability to be geocoded with the 
2005 GDT roads dataset. 
 3. The facility no longer exists. 

Because facilities in reasons one and two may still exist 
in the real world all the 2004 geocoded features that were 
not reproduced in the 2005 geocode update were re-geocoded 
against the 2005 GDT roads dataset.  These facilities were 
then added to the 2005 geocoded dataset. Facilities that 
are part of this scenario are represented with a value of 'NIN' 
(Not In New) in the field called FLAG.

-Added DESCRIPT field based on TYPE
-Socio-Cultural Effect data fields and definitions were added. 
 FLAG, UPDATE_DAY, AUTOID, ID, NAME, ADDRESS, CITY,
 ZIPCODE, OPERATING, OP_CLASS, YR_BUILT, COMMON_USE,
 USE, FGDLAQDATE.
-For facilities that previously existed the permanent auto 
 identification number [auto id] was carried over from the
 2004 SCE base data to the 2005 SCE updates. For new 
 facilities autoids were created.
-Total records = 21655

Internal feature number.

ESRI

Feature geometry.

ESRI

ESRI item which denotes the status of the geocoded address whether it was matched or not).

ESRI item which denotes the score with which the address was matched to a feature in the reference data.

ESRI item which denotes the side of the street to which the address was matched (for geocoding service styles that can match an address to a particular side of a street).

Unique identifier number for facility

Facility Designation

A description of a facility's physical location providing direction for delivery and provision of emergency services

City of facility's physical location

US postal delivery designation of facility's physical location

The phone number of the social service facility

The responsible organization for management and operation of a facility (e.g., public, private, quasi-public)

Classification of the operating entity

The year a structure was built for determining possible historical significance

Location of two or more uses in one facility or on common grounds so as to share common facilities

Description of co-located use, if applicable

The type of social service facility.

GeoPlan

The general type of social service facility.

GeoPlan

FGDL added item based on TYPE

Type of update that occurred

The last day the file was updated

Internal ID #

The date FGDL aquired the data from the source.