VT Census Case Studies : James City County Housing and Community Development Programs

Created by aerogers, last modified by molfe on 02 Jan 2016

Brief Overall Description of the Dataset:

This dataset is a compilation of public record housing permits. The data is collected as permits are requested and given. Therefore, there is not a full dataset for any specific year, just a dataset up to a particular year. This dataset gives the history of every building permitted in James City County.

Link: http://www.jamescitycountyva.gov/HousingCommunityDev/index.html

Date Inventory Completed: 06/03/2015

Screening

  • Is the data collected opinion-based?
  • Is the data collection recurring?
  • Is there data available for 2013?
  • Is the data collected at the property or housing unit level?
  • Can we access the data by August 15th?

Purpose

  • What is the purpose of the organization collecting the data?

Record the history of permit requests in the county.

  • Why is it collected and how does the organization use it?

The data is collected as citizens request permits and is stored for future developers. 

  • Who else uses the data?

Citizens

  • Who do they sell the data to?

 Citizens, developers, contractors

 

Method

  • What is the data collection method? 

Paper questionnaire- in the form of permit requests

  • What is the type of data collected? 

Voluntary collection

  • If designed, who created the questions?

  • What is the raw source of the collected data (prior to any aggregation)? 

Citizens requesting permits in James City County, VA


Description

  • What is the general topic of the data (1-2 words)?

 Building permits

  • What are the earliest and latest dates for which data is available?

Unknown

  • Is data collected and available periodically?

  • How soon after a reference period ends can a data source be prepared and provided? 


Selectivity

  • What is the universe (e.g., population) that the data represents?


Accessibility

  • How is the data accessed? 

  • Is it open data?

No

    • Any legal, regulatory, or administrative restrictions on accessing the data source?

“Department policy and state law prohibit general disclosure of social security numbers, bank or credit account numbers, and any other information that may cause harm or injury to an individual or business.”

    • Cost? - One time or annual or project based payment?

Approximately $200

Does this dataset appear to meet our needs for the Census study? Maybe

Explanation:

Lacking detail on what data is included and timeline to get data.