Using the School Attendance Boundary Information System

Session Submission Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This workshop will provide an overview and hands-on experience using the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS). SABINS is a new NSF-funded data product that delineates school attendance areas, tabulates census data for the areas, and links the attendance areas to individual schools in the NCES’ Common Core of Data. SABINS is a powerful new resource for studying school segregation, residential and school choice, and impact of quality schools on housing markets. This workshop provides an overview of SABINS and hands-on experience using the data. You will learn how to download SABINS data and use it in a geographic information system (GIS) and statistical package. Participants are required to bring a laptop. Additional course information is available at http://www.sabinsdata.org/news#AERAworkshop

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Directors

• Salvatore Saporito, College of William and Mary

• David Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center