COMMUNITY PROFILE DATABASE

• DESCRIPTION
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DESCRIPTION

The Community Profile Database (CPDB) is the sole automated repository for information on subsistence fish and wildlife harvests in Alaska. The CPDB also contains a wide array of current socioeconomic data. Information is derived from more than a decade of research by the Division of Subsistence, and from other sources. Updated periodically, it is available on diskette by request and for downloading.

The CPDB contains information in the following areas:

SUBSISTENCE RESOURCES USED BY ALASKAN COMMUNITIES - estimates of community harvests of fish, big game, small game and furbearers, marine mammals, marine invertebrates, birds and eggs, and plant resources based on household surveys conducted by the Division of Subsistence in select communities in every region of the State.

HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION IN SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES - percentage of households in study communities participating in using, attempting, harvesting, using, giving, and receiving subsistence resources.

SUBSISTENCE RESOURCES - complete listing of wildlife and plant resources used for subsistence in all studied communities, with conversion factors used to derive pounds of edible weight where applicable.

GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOPOLITICAL INFORMATION - the latitude and longitude, game management units, election districts, geographic regions, ecological and cultural regions, census areas and subareas for each community in Alaska.

COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION - age/sex data, length of residency of household heads in the community, distribution of jobs by employer category, average number of jobs per household and per employed adult person in the community, average weeks worked, average earned household income, and gross household income for selected study communities.

U.S. CENSUS - population, percentage Native, number of occupied household units, median household income for 1980 and 1990 for all Alaska communities.

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE - average individual income tax data for Alaska communities derived from taxable income reported on U.S. income tax returns, 1981-1985.

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR - community population estimates for years between U.S. censuses, 1984-86, 1988, 1991-1999.

COST OF LIVING INDEX - based on market basket surveys conducted by the Cooperative Extension Service/University of Alaska Fairbanks and extended to unsurveyed communities similarly situated with reference to the transportation network.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ISSUES - summary of habitat, regulatory, resource shortage/competition issues identified at the time of the community study, with some updates for post-study years available.

FEDERAL CONSERVATION UNITS - listings of all units of the national parks, preserves, monuments, refuges and forests, and their proximity to Alaska communities.

TECHNICAL PAPERS AND REPORTS OF THE DIVISION OF SUBSISTENCE - complete listing of all publications of the Division of Subsistence associated with community projects.

USING

USING THE CPDB: The database is available in Access 2000 format. The database can be downloaded as a ZIP or self-extracting ZIP file, and the technical documentation is available in a portable document format (PDF).

Community Profile Database Version 3.12 for Access 2000 (CPDB.ZIP, 6.5 MB, 7-10-2001)

Community Profile Database Version 3.12 for Access 2000 (CPDB.EXE, 6.57 MB, 7-10-2001)

Community Profile Technical Documentation (TECDOC00.PDF, 938KB)

Species Used for Subsistence Purposes (SubsistenceSpecies.PDF, 63KB)

For additional information on the Community Profile Database contact:

Data Management Section
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, Alaska 99518
e-mail: subweb@fishgame.state.ak.us