Activity 2
SOCY 101
Nicole Cousin- Gosset
18 September 2012 Activity Two
*What would he or she find? Based on your knowledge of your hometown, list out the positive and negative things you think the ethnographer might find.
Positive:
* Good amount of private owned businesses * High value for education (successful rates of graduates)
Negative:
* Low rate of diversity * Hard to find a job nowadays
*What are some things that strike you about your hometown based on census data? What might the researcher learn if only reviewing the statistical data from census records? What are some things that might be misunderstood about your hometown from only reviewing census data?
Positive:
* 88.8% High School Graduates, % of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 * Median Household income 2006-2010 is $63,959 * Living in the same house 1 year & over, 2006-2010 is 86.6%
Negative:
* Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2006-2010 is 27.9 * Persons below poverty level, percent, 2006-2010 is 8.1% * Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 is %35.2
Some of the things that surprised me by looking at the census data were the poverty level, number of foreign born persons and homeownership rate. They were each lower than what I had anticipated when I think about Baltimore County. The poverty level and homeownership rate struck me the most because they go hand in hand with showing how tough this bad economy has been on the county. I think the researcher would have only learned about the Business quick facts such as retail and merchant wholesaler sales because that isn’t something the average person living in Baltimore County would know. Something that might be understood just by viewing the statistical data on Baltimore County is that seeing as how we have a pretty large part of the population and a relatively high percentage of people below the poverty line, that we are mainly a lower-middle class region. When the
Nicole Cousin- Gosset
18 September 2012 Activity Two
*What would he or she find? Based on your knowledge of your hometown, list out the positive and negative things you think the ethnographer might find.
Positive:
* Good amount of private owned businesses * High value for education (successful rates of graduates)
Negative:
* Low rate of diversity * Hard to find a job nowadays
*What are some things that strike you about your hometown based on census data? What might the researcher learn if only reviewing the statistical data from census records? What are some things that might be misunderstood about your hometown from only reviewing census data?
Positive:
* 88.8% High School Graduates, % of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 * Median Household income 2006-2010 is $63,959 * Living in the same house 1 year & over, 2006-2010 is 86.6%
Negative:
* Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2006-2010 is 27.9 * Persons below poverty level, percent, 2006-2010 is 8.1% * Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 is %35.2
Some of the things that surprised me by looking at the census data were the poverty level, number of foreign born persons and homeownership rate. They were each lower than what I had anticipated when I think about Baltimore County. The poverty level and homeownership rate struck me the most because they go hand in hand with showing how tough this bad economy has been on the county. I think the researcher would have only learned about the Business quick facts such as retail and merchant wholesaler sales because that isn’t something the average person living in Baltimore County would know. Something that might be understood just by viewing the statistical data on Baltimore County is that seeing as how we have a pretty large part of the population and a relatively high percentage of people below the poverty line, that we are mainly a lower-middle class region. When the