City of Santa Monica Community Profile

This report presents a summary of the demographic data collected and analyzed by RAND as part of Community Voices A Community Profile and Planning Project of the City of Santa Monica. Since June 1999, RAND has provided technical research assistance to the Citys Human Services Division staff to help refine the project design and methodology. Tasks completed by RAND include refining project goals, objectives and guiding principles identifying data needs and resources outlining a methodology for data collection and analysis collecting data and developing a community profile. It is important to note that the data used in this report is secondary data collected from a variety of sources. When available, the most reliable and up-to-date data is used to describe the community. Unfortunately, in some cases the most readily available or reliable data is 1990 Census data, which is likely to be somewhat outdated. As such, despite its drawbacks, it is used in this report where more recent data is not available. It should also be kept in mind that more recent data usually makes projections based on 1990 Census data. Current plans are to update the information contained in this report as soon as 2000 Census data become available.