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CountyTrends -- benefits from using CountyTrends Projections to 2015. Use the CountyTrends modeling tool to develop annual projections to 2015. Apply default assumptions and/or optionally use your own assumptions to develop alternative projections under alternative scenarios. Impact Analysis. Only with CountyTrends. Integrate your own data. Consider this CountyTrends impact analysis application relating to poverty abatement. Start by using CountyTrends to develop current estimates of the population in poverty by age group (not available from any other source). Next, set up a poverty abatement program impact tool and code the results in a spreadsheet. Then, use CountyTrends to apply the results of the tool to the population cohorts for future time periods. View the results of the tool on the target population; assess the productivity of the poverty abatement program. Use the results to examine productivity of programs and make use of methods that have most payoff. ... in a business setting, you have sales data for a consumer product/service by age-race/ethnicity-gender for the current and historical periods. Integrate these data with the projections to assess how geographic and selected demographic cohort markets are changing. CountyTrends information helps you realign sales and marketing operations and helps your business performance. ... in an economic development setting, prepare a set of projections relating to the market for a prospective business that might be locating in your county, metro, or county grouping. Show them how the population and demographic segments of interest to the prospects are changing. This helps you illustrate the benefits of locating in your area using data that are not accessible from any other source. It shows your prospects that they are dealing with an economic development organization that can help them succeed. ... in a K-12 education setting, see how the number and percentage of school age children are changing who might require special assistance with English language programs. Perhaps you know the number of the English language learner population are increasing, but by how much annually? How rapidly is this changing and what will be the resource requirements three years from now. This information is essential to help you maintain a high quality school performance, plan for the right resources, and present hard data for budget planning and hearings. ... in a community development setting, find out how your community is changing in comparison the county(s) and metropolitan area. CountyTrends, in a sense, starts where the Census Bureau demographic estimates end. A summary of benefits and reasons to use CountyTrends is provided here. Merger of multi-sourced base data. Only with CountyTrends. CountyTrends includes base data from these sources: Census Bureau county official population estimates (updated May of each year), Census Bureau subcounty population estimates (updated June of each year), and Census Bureau county age-race/ethnic-gender population estimates (updated August of each year). These data are released separately by Census. Users need to know where they are located and how to transform the raw data into an analytical structure. Organized Presentation of Data Only with CountyTrends. Select a county or regional grouping and immediately view these data by year and age for your selected combination of race/ethnic-gender combination. Proximity has summarized the Hispanic by race combinations making it easier to view Hispanic demographics. Data for Your Area in Excel Format. Only with CountyTrends. As the data are displayed to screen, they are also written to an Excel file. This enables you to use the data in Excel and with other software. Graphical Analysis of Data. Only with CountyTrends. Use the Excel graphical templates to view the data in easy to understand charts. Ability to aggregate data to custom regions. Only with CountyTrends. By clicking on multiple counties you can create aggregates for regional county groups of interest to you. Ability to instantly view age-race/ethnic-gender data by Metro. Only with CountyTrends. Simply click on a metro of interest and the county data are summarized and presented for a metro of interest. More Information. For more information about CountyTrends, please Contact Proximity and include reference to CountyTrends in the comments section with any related questions. |
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