The new Demographic Changes in America: 1990-2000 is an easy-to-use software program from GeoLytics that enables secondary education teachers and college professors to bring US demographic data into the classroom. The US Census is collected every 10 years and is the best resource for understanding modern American demographic trends in areas such as age, race, education, employment, income, poverty, housing, and other interesting population information.

There are multiple uses in the classroom for the Demographic Changes in America: 1990-2000 on many educational subjects. The CD gives instant access to data and maps for learning about US history, social studies, geography, economics, urban studies, business and marketing, real estate, mathematics, and statistics. It is very simple to learn and use, and students will be able to run reports and create maps in no time.

All of GeoLytics teaching technology comes with instructive users guides. However, teachers and professors who use the Demographic Changes in America: 1990-2000 as a learning tool in the classroom receive free technical support to help them master this easy-to-use software. Our helpful and knowledgeable support staff will guide you through the straightforward learning process of using this demographic data CD.

The example below includes two maps of the District of Columbia broken out by zip code created from Demographic Changes in America: 1990-2000. The two maps demonstrate recent trends in Hispanic population from 1990 to 2000. As you can see in the maps below, there has been an increasing concentration of Hispanic population in the Northwest quadrant of the city from 1990 to 2000. In particular, there is the growing population of Hispanics in the Adams Morgan region around zip codes 20009 and 20010.

Latino Population Distribution by Zip Code as Percentage of Total Population in Washington, DC: 1990-2000

However, maps may not always tell the full story. For example, at first glance it looks like Hispanics in 1990 are primarily concentrated in zip code 20004. However, after referring back to the data students are able to see that this zip code had only 18 residents in 1990, 11 of whom were Hispanic. Thus the percentage of Hispanics is high, though they are relatively few in number. Therefore, the combination of data and mapping is very important to discussions of population changes in America.

Demographic Changes in America: 1990-2000 also has useful predefined reports that students can run instantly. Below is a small clip of the racial breakouts in the Time Series Report run for Washington, DC. As you can see, this particular report gives the research variable, and then reports the 1990 and 2000 census counts for that variable, as well as calculates percentages for a quick comparison of distribution. The final column is the percent change for an analysis of trends from 1990 to 2000 censuses. With this report, the built-in Summary Report and access to all the data plus mapping, students can quickly view and print data in many easy-to-comprehend formats.

Time Series Report - Race and Hispanic Counts for Washington, DC