FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
(VERSION 2003)
SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS
Geodataset Name: SOCIALSERVICE Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains 2003 Social Service Center Information for the State of Florida. This dataset contains fields denoting the physical address, and contact information for social service facilities based on data taken from the Yellow Pages Online.
DATA SOURCE(S): Yellow Pages Online SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: N/A DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: Source 2003, Automated 2003 GEODATASET EXTENT: State of FloridaFEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: SOCIALSERVICE.DBF ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION SHAPE 6 SHAPEPOINT 0 STATUS 1 CHARACTER 0 SCORE 4 DECIMAL 0 SIDE 1 CHARACTER 0 X 19 DECIMAL 5 Y 19 DECIMAL 5 NAME 76 CHARACTER 0 ADDRESS 50 CHARACTER 0 CITY 35 CHARACTER 0 ZIP 19 DECIMAL 0 SUBTYPE 46 CHARACTER 0 TYPE 36 CHARACTER 0 PHONE 31 CHARACTER 0 DESCRIPT 76 CHARACTER 0
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION
SHAPE Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format,
which defines the data as a point, polyline, or polygon.
STATUS ESRI item which denotes the status of the geocoded address
(whether it was matched or not).
SCORE ESRI item which denotes the score with which the address
was matched to a feature in the reference data.
SIDE 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).
X ESRI item which denotes the X coordinate of the geocoded
feature.
Y ESRI item which denotes the Y coordinate of the geocoded
feature.
NAME The name of the social service facility.
ADDRESS The physical street address of the social service facility.
CITY The city in which the social service facility is located.
ZIP The five digit Zip code for the social service facility.
SUBTYPE The type of social service facility.
ADOPTION SERVICES - Adoption Services
ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS - Adult Day Care Centers
ADVOCACY GROUPS - Advocacy Groups
AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN - Aid To Families With Dependent Children
ALCOHOLISM COUNSELING NONTREATMENT - Alcoholism Counseling Nontreatment
ASSISTED LIVING RETIREMENT HOMES - Assisted Living Retirement Homes
ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE HANDICAPPED - Associations For The Handicapped
BOYS TOWNS - Boys Towns
CHILD ABUSE INFORMATION & TREATMENT CENTERS - Child Abuse Information & Treatment Centers
CHILD DAY CARE SERVICES - Child Day Care Services
CHILD RELATED SOCIAL SERVICES - Child Related Social Services
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY - Children's Aid Society
CHILDREN'S HOME - Children's Home
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES - Community Action Agencies
COMMUNITY CENTERS - Community Centers
COMMUNITY CHEST - Community Chest
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUPS - Community Development Groups
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM - Community Service Employment Training Program
COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL AGENCY - Council For Social Agency
CRISIS CENTERS - Crisis Centers
CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTERS - Crisis Intervention Centers
DISASTER SERVICES - Disaster Services
DRUG ABUSE COUNSELOR NONTREATMENT - Drug Abuse Counselor Nontreatment
EMERGENCY SHELTERS - Emergency Shelters
EMERGENCY SOCIAL SERVICES - Emergency Social Services
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES - Family Counseling Services
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES MARRIAGE - Family Counseling Services Marriage
FAMILY LOCATION SERVICE - Family Location Service
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY - Family Service Agency
FOOD BANK - Food Bank
FUND RAISING ORGANIZATION NON-FEE BASIS - Fund Raising Organization Non-Fee Basis
GENERAL COUNSELING SERVICES - General Counseling Services
GERIATRIC RESIDENTIAL CARE - Geriatric Residential Care
GERIATRIC SOCIAL SERVICES - Geriatric Social Services
GROUP DAY CARE CENTERS - Group Day Care Centers
HEAD START CENTERS EXC. SCHOOL RELATED - Head Start Centers Exc. School Related
HEALTH & WELFARE COUNCIL - Health & Welfare Council
HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCIES - Health Systems Agencies
HELPING HAND SERVICE (BIG BROTHER ETC) - Helping Hand Service (Big Brother Etc)
HOMEMAKERS SERVICE - Homemakers Service
HOMES DEAF & BLIND - Homes Deaf & Blind
HOMES GROUP FOSTER - Homes Group Foster
HOTLINES - Hotlines
INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICES - Individual & Family Social Services
JOB COUNSELING SERVICES - Job Counseling Services
JOB TRAINING & RELATED SERVICES - Job Training & Related Services
JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES - Juvenile Correctional Facilities
MEAL DELIVERY PROGRAM - Meal Delivery Program
MONTESSORI CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS - Montessori Child Development Centers
NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER - Neighborhood Center
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP - Neighborhood Development Group
NURSERY SCHOOLS - Nursery Schools
OFFENDER REHABILITATION AGENCY - Offender Rehabilitation Agency
OFFENDER SELF-HELP AGENCY - Offender Self-Help Agency
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE SERVICES - Old Age Assistance Services
OUTREACH PROGRAM - Outreach Program
PRESCHOOL CENTERS - Preschool Centers
REFERRAL SERVICES PERSONAL & SOCIAL - Referral Services Personal & Social
REHABILITATION CENTER RESIDENTIAL, HEALTH - Rehabilitation Center Residential, Health
REHABILITATION SERVICES - Rehabilitation Services
RESIDENTIAL CARE - Residential Care
RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR CHILDREN - Residential Care For Children
SELF-HELP ORGANIZATIONS - Self-Help Organizations
SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERS & ASSOCIATIONS - Senior Citizens Centers & Association
SERVICE LEAGUES - Service Leagues
SKILL TRAINING CENTER - Skill Training Center
SOCIAL CHANGE ASSOCIATION - Social Change Association
SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS - Social Service Centers
SOCIAL SERVICES - Social Services
SOCIAL SERVICES FOR THE HANDICAPPED - Social Services For The Handicapped
SOCIAL WORKERS - Social Workers
SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING - Substance Abuse Counseling
TEMPORARY RELIEF SERVICE - Temporary Relief Service
TRAVELERS AID - Travelers Aid
UNITED FUND COUNCILS - United Fund Councils
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AGENCIES - Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AGENCY - Vocational Training Agency
WORK EXPERIENCE CENTERS - Work Experience Centers
YOUTH CENTERS - Youth Centers
TYPE The general type of social service facility.
INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICES - Individual & Family Social Services
CHILD DAY CARE SERVICES - Child Day Care Services
JOB TRAINING & VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION - Job Training & Vocational Rehabilitation
MISCELLANEOUS SOCIAL SERVICES - Miscellaneous Social Services
RESIDENTIAL CARE - Residential Care
PHONE The phone number of the social service facility.
DESCRIPT FGDL added item based on NAME
USER NOTES:
This dataset is a combination of social service oriented addresses from the Yellow 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. A note concerning data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multicounty or regional level. 1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
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 Individual & Family Social Services - Adoption Services (74) - Adult Day Care Centers (98) - Aid To Families With Dependent Children (68) - Alcoholism Counseling Nontreatment (5) - Associations For The Handicapped (83) - Child Abuse Information & Treatment Centers (4) - Child Related Social Services (32) - Children's Aid Society (1) - Community Centers (246) - Crisis Centers (6) - Crisis Intervention Centers (107) - Disaster Services (2) - Drug Abuse Counselor Nontreatment (29) - Emergency Shelters (1) - Emergency Social Services (94) - Family Counseling Services (247) - Family Counseling Services Marriage (3) - Family Location Service (1) - Family Service Agency (5) - Food Bank (4) - General Counseling Services (1107) - Geriatric Social Services (43) - Helping Hand Service (Big Brother Etc) (40) - Homemakers Service (1) - Hotlines (156) - Individual & Family Social Services (985) - Meal Delivery Program (30) - Neighborhood Center (1) - Offender Rehabilitation Agency (6) - Offender Self-Help Agency (3) - Old Age Assistance Services (2) - Outreach Program (58) - Referral Services Personal & Social (5) - Rehabilitation Services (686) - Self-Help Organizations (98) - Senior Citizens Centers & Associations (159) - Service Leagues (4) - Social Service Centers (228) - Social Services For The Handicapped (33) - Social Workers (363) - Substance Abuse Counseling (30) - Temporary Relief Service (2) - Travelers Aid (4) - Youth Centers (66) Social Services Child Day Care Services - Child Day Care Services (3554) - Group Day Care Centers (6) - Head Start Centers Exc. School Related (7) - Montessori Child Development Centers (185) - Nursery Schools (3) - Preschool Centers (796) Social Services Job Training & Vocational Rehabilitation - Community Service Employment Training Program (4) - Job Counseling Services (1) - Job Training & Related Services (83) - Skill Training Center (6) - Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (118) - Vocational Training Agency (7) - Work Experience Centers (4) Social Services Miscellaneous Social Services - Advocacy Groups (92) - Community Action Agencies (116) - Community Chest (34) - Community Development Groups (3) - Council For Social Agency (3) - Fund Raising Organization Non-Fee Basis (195) - Health & Welfare Council (3) - Health Systems Agencies (5) - Neighborhood Development Group (78) - Social Change Association (13) - Social Services (200) - United Fund Councils (1) Social Services Residential Care - Assisted Living - Retirement Homes (329) - Boys Towns (7) - Children's Home (91) - Geriatric Residential Care (2) - Homes Deaf & Blind (2) - Homes Group Foster (126) - Juvenile Correctional Facilities (20) - Rehabilitation Center Residential, Health (1) - Residential Care (329) - Residential Care For Children (8) -All addresses from sections above were copied and pasted into a textfile, which was then formatted so that it could be imported into Excel and converted to a database file format. Process Steps for Yellow Pages data: -The addresses were geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT Roads Shapefile created using FGDL Albers HPGN map projection (See "Map Projection Parameters" below). -Added DESCRIPT field based on NAME
REFERENCES:
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Social Service oriented facility locations were obtained from the online Yellow Pages in 2003 www.YellowPages.com. GeoPlan downloaded this data in textfile 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).
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection ALBERS Datum HPGN Units METERS Spheroid GRS1980 1st Standard Parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd Standard Parallel 31 30 0.000 Central Meridian -84 00 0.000 Latitude of Projection's Origin 24 0 0.000 False Easting (meters) 400000.00000 False Northing (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: Yellow Pages Web site: www.YellowPages.com Phone: 1 (800) 343-7390
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name: FGDL
Address: Florida Geographic Data Library
431 Architecture
PO Box 115706
Gainesville, FL 32611-5706
Web site: http://www.fgdl.org
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