Center on the Family
Hawai‘i's Aging
Begin by choosing indicators you'd like to find out more about. You can browse by subject, age, or location. Within these indicator groups, you'll have other options that can narrow your search.
- Subject: You will receive information on your selected subject for all age levels and all locations.
- Age: You will receive information pertaining to your selected age group in all the subject indicators and for all locations. Please note that the most data are available for the age group "65 and Above."
- Location: You will receive information in all subject indicators and for all age levels where data are available in your chosen location.
Selecting Indicators
Click as many boxes as you're interested in viewing statistics for, or click "Select All" to check all the boxes. If you accidentally click the wrong box, just click it again to erase. Then go to the bottom of the page and click "View Indicator(s)" to receive your data.
- "Select All": Please note that "Select All" only checks all the boxes in that particular subject area; check all the "Select All" boxes to receive all the information available.
- i: Click the yellow "i" button to view the definition and source(s) of the information, as well as the date and geographic range of the data.
When you have received the data, you will have several options for handling it. If you’ve chosen data from more than one subject area, they will show up divided by subject for easier reference. The data that are presented are the latest extant for these indicators and are given for as many locations as are available.
- i: Click the yellow "i" button to view the definition and source(s) of the indicator, as well as the date and geographic range of the data. To select, copy, or export the information, right-click inside the information window to choose an appropriate option.
- c: Click the blue "c" button to view the current data as a chart comparing different geographic locations. To print, copy, or save the chart, right-click inside the chart area to select an appropriate option.
- t If data are available for more than one year, you will see a green "t" button. Click this button to view the data changes over time by geographic location, presented as a chart and data table.
- E-mail: Click the "E-mail" button to e-mail this page of information to yourself or someone else.
- Printer Friendly: Click the "Printer Friendly" button to view and print the page in a printer-friendly format.
- Export to Excel: Click the "Export to Excel" button to export the data table to an Excel worksheet. When prompted, you can choose "Open" to see the table you have created, or "Save" to save the table directly.
To research more data, click "Select Indicators" on the navigation trail above to select other indicators within the current indicator group, or "Indicators Search" to browse another indicator group.
When you have received the trend data, you will have several options for handling it.
- E-mail: Click the "E-mail" button to e-mail this page of information to yourself or someone else.
- Printer Friendly: Click the "Printer Friendly" button to view and print the page in a printer-friendly format.
- Export to Excel: Click the "Export to Excel" button to export the data table to an Excel worksheet. When prompted, you can choose "Open" to see the table you have created, or "Save" to save the table directly.
To view more trend data, click "Latest Data" on the navigation trail above to go back to the indicator result page and select another indicator that has trend data.
To research more data, click "Select Indicators" on the navigation trail above to select other indicators within the current indicator group or "Indicators Search" to browse another indicator group.
Tips for Navigating Publication Database
Browsing Publications
Hawai‘i's Aging has an extensive database of publications. Begin by narrowing your search.
- Subject: Click on as many subjects as you like, or check "All Subjects." Please note that the same document may be listed under more than one subject.
- Document Types: Specify one or more types of documents, or check "Search All Types."
- After you've checked the boxes, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.
- If you check a box by mistake, click it again to uncheck it. You can also click "All Subjects" or "Search All Types" twice to clear your selections under these headings, or "Reset" at the bottom of the page to uncheck all boxes.
- If you choose nothing in "Subject" and/or in "Document Types," by default all subjects and/or all document types will be retrieved.
For more search options, click "advanced search" to research publications by title, author, keywords, year, and/or document type.
Advanced Search
Search Tips:
- Enter a keyword or phrase in one or more of the "Search for" boxes.
- If you have entered search terms in more than one box, connect the search statements by using a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) by clicking the option button between the boxes.
- AND narrows the search by combining the terms: nursing AND
home
- OR broadens the search by allowing either term to be found:
nursing OR home
- NOT ensures that certain terms will not appear in the search results:
home NOT nursing
- If you have entered more than one search word per box, click the drop-down arrow next to "All of these" to select how the words entered will be searched.
- "All of these" is equivalent to Boolean AND
- "Any of these" is equivalent to Boolean OR
- "As a phrase" retrieves records containing all of the keywords in the exact order entered-you don't need quotation marks or parentheses
- Select from the drop-down options in the "Search in" box to specify where the search for the keyword or phrase will take place.
- You may limit the search to specific publication dates and reference types.
Additional Tips:
- Use ? with partial words for variant endings: medica? finds
Medicare, Medicaid, medical.
- Enter non-English words in romanized forms (omitting diacriticals).
- Searches are not case sensitive.
After you've entered the search criteria, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page to receive your information. To clear all search criteria, click "Reset."
Evaluating Search Results
Each publication is shown with title, year published, document type, author(s), and publisher and/or place of publication. For more information, click "View Detail" at the end of each description. There you'll receive information on the availability of an abstract and the full text, and other related information.
Each page shows a maximum of 10 items. Use the page navigator at the top and the bottom of each page to move between result pages. Here are some more tips:
- E-mail: Click the "E-mail" button to e-mail this page of information to yourself or someone else.
- Printer Friendly: Click the "Printer Friendly" button to view and print the page in a printer-friendly format.
- Export to Excel: Click the "Export to Excel" button to export the information to an Excel worksheet. When prompted, you can choose "Open" to see the table you have created, or "Save" to save the table directly.
To refine your search, click the "Back" button on the web browser's toolbar to go back and modify your search criteria.
To research more publications, click "Publications Search" on the navigation trail above to go back to the basic search page. There you can use the basic subject search or link to advanced search.
Obtaining Your Citation and/or Document
Full citation information is available on the "Publication Details."
If you would like to read the document, one or more of these options may be available:
- If the document is available in pdf format in the Hawai‘i's Aging database, you'll be able to download it immediately, if you have Adobe Acrobat. If you don't, you can get a free copy of the program here (Get Adobe Reader). You can read it online, save it to your computer, or print it out.
- If the document is available in its publisher's archives, you will be given a web address where you can search for, read, and print it. Please note and abide by any guidelines the publisher may have.
- If the document is not available online at all, you will be given information as to where to find it or get a reprint of it, usually in the form of a link to its publisher.
More tips for "Publication Details":
- E-mail: Click the "E-mail" button to e-mail this page of information to yourself or someone else.
- Printer Friendly: Click the "Printer Friendly" button to view and print the page in a printer-friendly format.
- Export to Excel: Click the "Export to Excel" button to export the information to an Excel worksheet. When prompted, you can choose "Open" to see the table you have created, or "Save" to save the table directly.
- To read the next and previous publication details, or to return to the beginning of the search result, click the appropriate option at the top of the details section.