S T E P 4 : U ND E R S T AN D TH E D A T A .
The result of our filtering and geography selection, shown in Figure 34, is the data we were looking for: We now have information on the social and demographic characteristics of households that received SNAP benefits in 2019 in Carroll County, Virginia (or in your selected county). Let’s look at what we can learn about this group of country residents. For clarity of presentation, Figure 34 shows percentages for households that received SNAP and for those who did not receive SNAP benefits in Carroll County, which we toggled using the “columns” option on the right side as we learned in step 2. We removed the display of margins of error by clicking and de- selecting the “margin of error” button on the top navigation panel. (Try it!)
Figure 34: Subject table with results.
The resulting table contains data for Carroll County, Virginia, residents. It shows percentage breakdowns for each selected socio-demographic characteristic for two groups: households that received SNAP (left center column) and households that did not receive SNAP (right center column). The left-most column lists all the indicators, or variables, available in the SNAP subject table, along with its categories. First, notice that different labels are more or less indented. This gives us a clue about our “total” category or the category that represent s 100 percent for our estimates. You can see “households” is the least indented, and you can read this line as follows: Out of all (100 percent) households in Carroll County, 11.2 percent
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