Spokane Community Inidicators

                                            {
  "fn": "OCIO-Will Saunders",
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  "hasEmail": "mailto:no-reply@data.wa.gov"
}
                                        

                                            [
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "A to Z listing of indicators",
    "mediaType": "text/html",
    "description": "A directory page for the Spokane Community Indicators project
The Community Indicators Initiative of Spokane seeks to improve local, private and public decision-making by providing relevant data in an easily navigable website. The data will serve neutral information for all parties involved.

More specifically, the goals are:

    To collect and share a broad spectrum of information for individual community members, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, businesses, business organizations, researchers, and the press.
    To track progress over time of various efforts toward a healthy, vibrant community.
    To measure the community's progress spatially via benchmarks outside of the County.
    To enable analysis of these trends.
    To create a forum for a discussion of the issues underlying the data, either on-line or in person.

A community indicators project must receive its inspiration, general direction, and ultimately, validity from the citizens themselves. Appropriately, the Community Indicators Initiative of Spokane has convened individuals representing many groups, organizations and businesses over three rounds of focus groups since 2005 to arrive at the indicator set you see here.",
    "downloadURL": "http://www.communityindicators.ewu.edu/aToZ.cfm"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Voter participation",
    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "description": "Casting one's vote in a public election is a right enshrined in our constitution. The degree to which citizens freely exercise this right is viewed as a litmus test of a democratic society. Yet, even if most citizens are registered to vote, a small voter turnout still might occur. A plurality, ideally a large plurality, should characterize any election in order for elected leaders and for laws established by a vote of the people to have legitimacy. Unfortunately, this ideal is not always realized, though recent Presidential elections have shown high turnouts.

This indicator measures the turn-out rate among registered voters in Spokane County for November elections. They are offered for Presidential elections, mid-term elections, and for off-year elections. Washington State is offered as a benchmark. 
Derived from WA Secretary of State's elections data.",
    "downloadURL": "http://www.communityindicators.ewu.edu/templates/dataDownload.cfm?cat_id=0&sub_cat_id=4&ind_id=2"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Total and Share of Households with an Internet Connection",
    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "description": "This indicator measures the number of households in Spokane County, with an internet connection of any kind. Washington State and the U.S. are offered as benchmarks. Additional information, including the number of households with an internet connection of any kind in each of the offered comparison areas, can be found in the "Download Data" section. 

As internet access and computer use have grown in importance to American household, corporate and government users, Census officials have begun to track data related to Internet use and computer ownership. The internet has transformed the lives of most who have access to it. Essentially, much of the information and the tools offered on the internet used to take hours or days to procure, if it was available at all. Yet, not all Americans have access to the internet. ",
    "downloadURL": "http://www.communityindicators.ewu.edu/templates/dataDownload.cfm?cat_id=0&sub_cat_id=3&ind_id=5"
  }
]
                                        

                                            [
  "community",
  "spokane"
]
                                        

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  "name": "data.wa.gov",
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                                            [
  "Demographics"
]