Stats, data, and privacy expectations
What the public stats show, how partners should read them, and the privacy rules underneath.
What this does
The stats page publishes aggregate LaneHelp inventory, housing-lead, site-use, search-pattern, data-quality, and provider-information signals with explicit measurement gaps.
When to use it
Use it for planning, grant writing, and spotting gaps — county staff, funders, and organizations all read the same public numbers.
What you need
Nothing. The dashboard is public on purpose.
In this guide
What the numbers can tell you
- Directory inventory — active listings by service type, geography, and represented community.
- Housing leads — source-reported lead status and freshness, not guaranteed vacancies.
- Website use — qualified visits and page opens after LaneHelp separates known automation and staff activity where possible.
- Search patterns — grouped demand categories and classification coverage when the sample is large enough to publish responsibly.
- Data quality and provider information — current checks, known measurement gaps, and public provider-source context.
Why a search pattern is not a census of need
LaneHelp usage describes what happened on LaneHelp, not everyone in Lane County. A search can reflect a real need, a helper searching for someone else, research, testing, a wording problem, or a directory/search defect. The public dashboard groups and limits what it shows rather than treating every query as a service-gap finding.
What the numbers cannot tell you
- Anything about an individual person. Every figure is aggregate; small counts are protected from de-anonymization.
- Where specific people are. LaneHelp publishes no person-level locations, and its data must not be used for enforcement or sweeps.
- A census of need. LaneHelp measures LaneHelp usage — people who never open the site are invisible in it. Treat gaps in the data as questions, not conclusions.
Questions about the data, methodology, or partnership go through the contact form.
Common questions
Can our agency get raw data?
Questions and requests for appropriate aggregate information can go through contact. Public dashboard exports and any partner discussion remain subject to LaneHelp’s privacy, legal, safety, and small-count protections.
How current are the stats?
The report shows when it was generated and individual source sections show their own freshness or period. “Updated” does not mean every source changed at that moment.
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