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Hawaii Redistricting Online Migrating A Plan To A Different Population Base
Up until now, plans created using the Hawaii Redistricting Onlin
U.S. Census PL 94-171 population base. Both the Hawaii Reapportionment Commission (State)
and the Hawaii County Redistricting Commission (County) may inde
different population base. If either does, then users of the ap
their existing (PL 94-171) plans to whichever new population base is adopted.
The following is a step-by-step description of how to migrate a plan to a different populat
base. In this example, I will show how to migrate Hawaii Council Plan
e Hawaii County Redistricting Commission has decided to
use this population base.
1) Log in to Hawaii Redistricting Online
2) Open up the plan you want to migrate. In this example My Hawaii
Council Plan
The default choices are fine,
-Block then District
-Comma delimited
A status window will show that the plan is being exported.
Navigate to the folder where you want to save the text file
You should see the text file you just saved. If not, navigate
back to the folder where you saved the text file.
7) Click on the triangles to drill down to the appropriate sourc
For this example, it is Extraction C (Hawaii_2010_C)
and it is Hawaii County.
Everything else should be set by default as shown
here.
The year should be 2010.
8) You will see a message that the application is analyzing the import file.
After a moment, you should see a window like this saying
like to continue with the export.
9) You will see a message that the plan is importing.
This may take several minutes to complete.
10) When the import is finished, you will see your district boundaries
and a new set of district populations and deviations based on the new population base.
11) Before For this example
gohat it is using the
population base.
Give your plan a name and put something in the
description box.
ADDENDUM Deviation percent not shown
If you finished migrating your plan to the
new base and you see the percent
deviation column in the District Summary
window, heres how to turn it back on:
12) Go to the Create tab and click the
Demographics button. Scroll down to
TOTAL_DEV.
13) Click the box under Percent and then
close the window.
You should now see the percent deviation
column in the District Statistics window.