Build a Nebraska Rural Poll Interactive Report

The Nebraska Rural Poll Interactive Report allows you to create a state, region, or county-level report at the click of a button. Use the Nebraska Rural Poll – Interactive Report to generate reports that highlight the responses of rural Nebraskans to the longest-running poll of rural life in the United States. Focusing on issues such as community, government policy, well-being, and employment, this report can be used to help everyday citizens, as well as local and state leaders, to better understand the needs, priorities, and viewpoints of Nebraska’s rural citizens.

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Select Your Location

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Select Your Indicators

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Generate Your Report

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Save and Download Your Report

Step 1 – Select Your Location

To create a county-level report, select your county or counties from the list. To create a report at the state- or region-level, click the “State” or “Region” tab, then select your location of interest from the list below.

The Location page of the reporting interface, which shows a list of how locations and demonstrates how to select more than one location.

After selecting your location, click the “Data Indicators” button at the bottom right to move to Step 2.

Step 2 – Select Your Indicators

Select all indicators you would like to include in your report. To select all available indicators, click the “Select All Indicators” checkbox at the top left of the screen.

The Indicators page of the reporting interface with the "Select all indicators" checkbox highlighted, demonstrating a shortcut for selecting all indicators to include in the report.

To select all indicators within a category (e.g., demographics, well-being, civil discourse, etc.), click the checkbox next to the category name.  

The Indicators page of the reporting interface with an indicator category expanded to show individual indicators.

Click the checkbox next to individual indicators to add them to your report.

The Indicators page of the reporting interface with an indicator checkbox highlighting, demonstrating how to select an indicator to include in the report.

To learn more about an indicator before adding it to your report, click the “i” button beside it.

The Indicators page in the reporting interface with an indicator info button highlighted.

Step 3 – Generate Your Report

Click the “Reports” button to generate your report.

The Indicators page in the report interface with the Reports tab highlighted.

Your completed report includes dynamic introductions, data tables, and stacked bar charts for each indicator selected in Step 2. Navigate your report using the menu in the bottom right corner of the page.

The Reports page with the table of contents highlighted.

Reports also include breakout data where available. Breakout data refers to sub-categories of data within an indicator. For example, the “Total Population” indicator provides breakout data by gender, age groups, race, and ethnicity.

Step 4 – Save and Download Your Report

To download your report as a PDF, click the “Download PDF” button.

The Reports page with the "Download As" button highlighted, indicating that you can download the report as a PDF, Excel table, or Microsoft Word document.

To share your report via email or social media, click the “Share” button. Click the “Print” button to print.

The Reports page with the Share and Print buttons highlighted.

Logged-in users can save reports to their All Things Nebraska profile. You must be logged into your All Things Nebraska account to save a report.