National Center for Children in Poverty

The NCCP website showcases research publications, as well as state-specific information and tools for analysis

State-specific HTML and PDF profiles auto-generate from data managed in an Access database

The Family Resource Simulator provides a tool to examine the interactions of income supports at the local level

Public interfaces to 50-state databases allow users to compare states on a multitude of measures

Technologies: wizards, SPS, PHP, Perl

The National Center for Children in Poverty required a complex site to organize its extensive collection of research publications. In addition, the site features several custom-programmed tools and features providing state-specific information: state profiles in both HTML and PDF formats, wizards for generating tables of state-specific policy and demographic data, and a Family Resource Simulator that models the interaction of state and federal income supports for sample families.

The implementation of the website (in SPS and custom-programmed PHP and Perl) allows NCCP staff to easily keep the site up to date, both using web-based tools, statistical packages like STATA, and a customized Access database for storing state-specific information.