Partners enter their information on the NNIP Neighborhood Data Inventory via the NNIP Website. Your username and password are the same as for the website generally. Please note that only users with "editor" permissions will be able to update their organization's data inventory.
We are asking that you only report on data holdings that you have for the neighborhood-level or other geography smaller than a city or town. (see examples below).
View the most recent inventory results.
If you have any questions please email Urban staff at [email protected].
Steps to update the inventory
- Log on to the NNIP website and go to "My Dashboard." Scroll to the bottom of the dashboard to the "Partner Organization Data Inventory."
- Click to "view" the most recent survey or "edit" to update the survey.
- To update the inventory, type your name and email address.
- Update inventory fields by clicking through and selecting appropriate options on the drop-down menus.
- Click save to finish.
- For screen shot illustrations of the data inventory system, please see this document.
Availability
Please ensure that the "Availability of Data Below the City/County Level" column is complete for all rows in your inventory, even if you don't have the data or don't plan to acquire it. The two "yes" categories are defined as:
- “Yes, we have it in house” means that you have the data saved within your organization and that you can use to create indicators.
- Example: you obtained foreclosure records from the city that you can geocode and use to create indicators or analyze for your audiences.
- “Not in house, but accessible through another organization” means that you do not have the data saved within your organization; but that you work closely with another organization that has that data in house OR the data is available to download on a public system.
- Example 1: you work with an organization that is involved in a lot of analytic work on schools and has student-level education records.
- Example 2: your city or county's open data portal has bike lane shapefiles free and open for the public to download.
Geography
We are only interested in data below the city or town level. If you do not have data at a sub-city geography, report that you do not have the data under the availability menu. The rest of the line can be left blank.
The smallest geographic identifier includes the following options:
- Address/parcel
- School (the school district may publish school-level indicators such as proficiency rates or absenteeism rates)
- Block group
- Census tract
- Zip code
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Neighborhood (if your city has informal or formal neighborhood designations.
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Other sub-city geography (ie. ward, voting precinct, police precinct, school cachement area, etc.