Presentation to the Dallas Womens Foundation

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Presentation to the Dallas Womens Foundation
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Dallas County Population - 2000
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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2000 Census Black Population Dallas County
Source North Central Texas Council of Governmen
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http//census.dfwinfo.com
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2000 Census Hispanic Population Dallas County
Source North Central Texas Council of Governmen
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http//census.dfwinfo.com
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Households in Dallas County, 2000Total
Households 807,621
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Dallas County Working Population by Sex, 2000 (16
years and over)
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Dallas County Median Earnings for Population,
2000 (16 years and over)
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Dallas County Poverty Status, 2000
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Poverty by Zipcode Dallas County 2000 Census
Source U.S. Census Bureau http//www.census.gov
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Educational Attainment by Sex for Dallas County
(18 years and over)
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Median Earnings for Population, Selected
Counties, 2000 (16 years and over)
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Poverty Status, Selected Counties 2000
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Family Poverty, Selected Counties, 2000
(Number below poverty level in the past 12 months)
Source U. S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
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Survey Methodologies

• Survey of Women
• Random Digit Dialing (RDD) telephone sample
• 1,250 respondents (250 in 5 areas of Dallas
  County)
  
• Survey of Girls age 7 to 11
• Combination RDD and listed telephone sample
• 621 interviews conducted with girls mothers
• Survey of Girls age 12 to 17
• Girls recruited using RDD sample, listed sample,
  and members of Girl Scouts and Girls Inc.
  
• 426 paper questionnaires completed by girls.

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Report Components

• Survey of Women (Six Volumes)
• Introduction
• Community and Neighborhood Life
• Economics
• Families and households
• Health
• Children and youth
• Survey of Girls age 7 to 11
• Money skills, school and jobs, teen life, health,
  problems and feelings.
  
• Survey of Girls age 12 to 17
• Money skills, school and jobs, teen life, health,
  problems and feelings.

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Dallas County Survey Regions
Northwest
Northeast
Central
Southwest
Southeast
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Housing

• 56 owned their homes
• Higher among white women (69)
• Lower among Hispanic (38) and African American
  women (41)
  
• 38 rent their homes
• 6 live with family or friends
• Higher among students (21) and younger
  respondents age 18 to 25 (15)
  
• Higher among separated women (16)

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Housing

• 9 reported having a problem buying or renting a
  house or apartment in Dallas County.
  
• Higher among separated women (23)
• Higher among women who live with family and
  friends (20)
  
• Higher among African American women (14)
• Nature of the problem
• 29 Bad credit
• 18 Unable to afford rent or payment
• 16 Discrimination
• 12 Could not get a loan

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Resources

• 31 were worse off financially than 5 years ago.
• Higher among disabled women (69)
• Higher among separated women (59)
• 5 had been without housing of their own in the
  past 12 months.
  
• Higher among separated women (24)

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Financial Planning

• 24 were not very or not at all confident that
  they would have enough money to meet their needs
  5 years from now.
  
• Higher among women with a high school education
  (59)
  
• Higher among disabled women (69)
• Higher among Hispanic women (47)
• Higher in the central region of Dallas (41)

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Financial Planning

• 33 had spoken to a financial planner
• Most common among women age 46 to 60 (47)
• Lower among Hispanic women (12)
• Lower among women in central Dallas (20)
• 65 had made provisions for retirement other than
  social security (65).
  
• 31 felt that they would not be prepared for
  retirement.
  
• One quarter of women age 46 to 60 felt they would
  not be prepared

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Employment

• 27 of all women reported a woman in the
  household had been out of work in the last 12
  months.
  
• Most common reasons lay-off (30), pregnancy
  (16)
  
• Regarding the current status of that woman, 31
  found a job, 62 were still looking, and 7 had
  given up looking.
  
• Found a job was lowest among Hispanic women
  (14).
  
• Given up looking was higher among women with
  less than a high school education (18), and
  Hispanic women (13).
  
• Still looking was higher among African American
  (71) and Hispanic women (73).

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Employment Skills

• 34 have taken classes to learn new skills in the
  past two years.
  
• Lower among women earning less than 15,000 (24)
  or women earning 15,000 to 30,000 (20)
  
• Lower among Hispanic women (2)
• 68 have a computer at home.
• Lower among women with less than a high school
  education (30)
  
• Lower among African American (60) and Hispanic
  women (43)

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Health Issues

• 27 reported their health as excellent compared
  to others their age and 7 reported poor health.
  
• 41 exercise 3 or more times a week and 32
  exercise less than once a week.
  
• Percentage agreeing with eating behaviors
• Combination of dairy, bread, meat, fruit (93)
• A lot of fast food (29)
• A lot of candy, chips and snacks (23)

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Health Issues

• 17 smoke cigarettes
• Higher among disabled (41) and unemployed women
  (24)
  
• Higher among divorced women (26)
• Higher among women in southwest Dallas (25)
• 36 drink alcohol
• Higher among women who live alone (43)
• Higher among white women (48)
• Higher among women in northwest Dallas (50)

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Coverage and Treatment

• 27 reported that there was a time in the past 12
  months when they were completely without any
  health plan or coverage.
  
• 30 reported that there was a time in the last 12
  months that their children were without health
  insurance.
  
• 16 use a public clinic and 4 use an emergency
  room for routine medical care

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Surveys of GirlsAge 7 to 11Age 12 to 17
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School and Jobs
Age 7 to 11
Age 12 to 17

• Expected to go to college.
• 30 minutes to 1 hour of homework each day.
• Know how to use a computer.
• Use the computer 1 or more hours a day.
• Like school a lot.
• Gangs at school.

93 98 58 50 98 99 27 69 83 41
6 43

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Focus Groups

• Focus groups of smaller populations of interest
  were conducted to get more in-depth input from
  those who were missed by the general population
  surveys.

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Focus Groups

• Special interest populations included in focus
  groups
  
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Lesbian Women
• Homeless Women with Children
• Drug and Alcohol Abusers/Women in Recovery
• Women at 200 of Poverty
• Abused Women
• Executive/Business Women
• Homeless Women
• Women with Mental Illness
• Teenage Mothers

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Report Road Map

• Complete findings from Survey of Women broken
  down by demographic findings.
  
• Community and neighborhood life
• Economics and employment
• Families and households
• Health
• Children and youth
• Surveys of girls age 7 to 11 and 12 to 17.
• Focus group results