Various Demographic Area Pretesting Activities

Tasks for Novice Users:

1. You’re new to AFF and are unsure of how to begin. Where would you start? (Follow-up probe statement: You want to find information on your community)

2. You are looking for information on income in Nebraska, how do you find it?

3. You’re looking for the population of Monroe County, Florida, how would you find it?

4. You’re moving to Monroe County, Florida. You would like to know more information about the average age of people living in that city.

5. You're working on a report and need age group statistics about Native Americans in the United States for 2007. You’ve already searched for Native Americans and the United States and now want to find a matching result from 2007. What would you do?

6. You’ve opened a table and you see information for the United States. How would you find the same information for Virginia?

7. You’ve opened a table and the information is broken down by States, you want to see the same table broken down by Congressional Districts, what would you do?

8. You want to know the number of full-service restaurants in Baltimore, MD. You’d like assistance in finding this information. Where do you look?

9. You’d like to share a table you’ve found with other people, how would you do this?

Extra if time permits: You want to know the total population in Congressional District 4 in Maryland.

Tasks for Expert Users:

1. You are very comfortable with Census Data. You know the name of the dataset you are interested in and you want to get the entire dataset onto your computer. How would you begin from the Main Page?

2. You are a routine AFF user, you are very comfortable with Census Data and you are interested in finding data about various topics and geographic locations. How would you begin your search from the Main Page?

3. You are looking for information on income in Nebraska, how do you find it?

4. You want information on all the census tracts in Alabama, where do you start?

5. You're working on a report and need age group statistics about Native Americans in the United States for 2007. You’ve already searched for Native Americans and the United States and now want to find a matching result from 2007. What would you do?

6. You’re looking for table GCT H2 for the United States broken down by congressional district. You’ve already searched for GCT H2 and see a set of results. What would you do?

7. You have selected a number of tables from the search results and you’d like to save these tables and change the search parameters to find other tables. What would you do to save them?

8. You’ve opened a table and you see information for the United States. How would you find the same information for Virginia?

9. You are writing a newspaper article and you're looking for population counts for every individual city/town in the United States.

10. You want to know the number of full-service restaurants in Baltimore, MD. You’d like assistance in finding this information. Where do you look?

Extra if time permits: You want to know the total population in Congressional District 4 in Maryland.