Article
Applying GIS for Social Services: A Case Study of Monterey County's Children Needs
Proceedings of International Symposium on Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics
(1999)
Abstract
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been widely used to assess the quality and
necessity of social services by various government agencies and community organizations. Most of the
existing approaches start with mapping the current demographic characteristics and the distribution of
related social services, then identify service gaps and spatial mismatches between the demand and supply.
In this article, we introduce a more comprehensive approach to examine and forecast the needs of a
particular social service. Our analysis employs cartographic modeling in GIS, which is based on a variety
of social, economic and demographic variables. We will illustrate our modeling process with a case study
of assessing Monterey County’s childcare service priorities.
Keywords
- GIS,
- Social Services
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer June, 1999
Citation Information
Y. Lao and J. Thompson, “Applying GIS for Social Services: A Case Study of Monterey County’s Child Care Service Priorities”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics, pp.116-133, June, 1999.