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Census Data Helps Inform Decisions in Higher Education
Decision-makers in higher education have an immense amount of data they use in their work. Depending on the issues they are trying to address, they can pull financial, campus building, current student, former student, or prospective student data, to name a few. Those are just the data points the college can generate on its own. There is also data that comes from outside sources.
One such source is the United States census. Every ten years, in years ending with a 0, what’s known as the decennial census is taken. Those results can help many different industries make decisions about areas that are growing – or decreasing – in population. In between the decennial counts is the American Community Survey (ACS), which can provide more fresh datasets related to the U.S. population. The 2024 5-year estimates were released recently. Here’s how that data can influence the work of colleges and universities.
What the Winter Olympics and Business Intelligence Have in Common
One of Jerry Seinfeld’s classic bits revolves around the Olympics. He jokes about the silver medalist: “Of all the losers, you came in first.” He goes on to illustrate how hundredths of a second can separate the best performers from those who walk away without a medal.
Business leaders probably aren’t surprised at how much of a difference hundredths of a second can make. Sometimes it’s those decisions on the margins that can make all the difference between business successes and failures. Here’s how data matters in the Winter Olympics, which recently wrapped up in Italy, and the parallels to analytics in the business world.