Getting Started

Getting reports from LINC:

1. Category Report: Choose a category from the tiles on the home page. You can find the specific data for a county from a particular year by making appropriate selections. You can select multiple counties and years as well.
View Graph: Choose this option if you want to view the data as a graph.
Tabular View: Choose this option if you want to view the data in a table.

2. User Stories: Click on the Read More button on a user story to get all data items related to that particular user story.

3. Interesting Facts: You can view the interesting facts about a category and can click on Read More button to get more interesting facts about that category.

What is Log Into North Carolina (LINC)?

Log Into North Carolina is an interactive data retrieval service containing historical information for over 900 data items and a variety of geographic areas within the state.

Most data are available for the state and all 100 counties. Some items are available for municipalities. Others, especially census data, may be retrieved for tracts and townships.

There is a definition for each data item to give the user some understanding of what the data mean. Other metadata provide information on the source and frequency of the information.

Reports may be viewed through your browser, printed, or saved as html files for loading into a spreadsheet. For example: Click in the report frame. From the file menu, choose "Save As...," and save as an html (.html) file. Open the htm file in Excel.

Begin by selecting at least one geographic area in the left frame and then clicking Continue. The status bar below will reflect your choices as you proceed.

ALEXANDER COUNTY
Forsyth County Public Library
Mr. William H. King
660 West 5th Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336) 727-2220