Introduction

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This document provides an integrated summary of selected demographic-economic characteristics and patterns for Mississippi and sub-state geography and access to corresponding data and tools for further analysis and extension.

The resources are intended to further empower stakeholders to better understand the existing conditions and examine how demographic-economic characteristics are changing for wide-ranging application areas and geographies.

Applications are substantially developed using the Proximity CommunityViewer (CV), MetroDynamics (MD), Situation & Outlook and related tools and may be applied to any state or region. CV operates on a Win32/64 computer (XP or Vista). While CV is used to develop applications shown in this document, all data may be directly used with software that supports use of shapefiles. CV is not required. The no fee version of CV can be used to perform most operations illustrated in this document.

Using CV, the project start-up view is shown in the graphic at right. The legend panel at left shows layers. The map panel at right shows active layers (with layer checkbox checked).

Proximity

Proximity develops custom demographic-economic estimates and projections and geographic data and provides related analytical services to meet client needs. Wide-ranging organizations use Proximity resources (software, data, methodologies) to analyze their own data integrated with other data. Contact Proximity (888-364-7656) with questions about data/applications covered in this document or to discuss custom estimates, projections or analyses for your areas of interest.

Using this Guide

See the next section for information on organization and use of the Guide.

CV Project Fileset

The Proximity CommunityViewer software is used with associated Mississippi-centric project fileset to examine/analyze geodemographic-economic patterns and trends in Mississippi. The guide provides many examples and instruction on analysis of Mississippi geodemographics that may be used by users of CV with the project fileset.

To get started using the CV project fileset used to develop this document, see the Using CV Projects section. The project fileset may be expanded to meet your own interests.

Continuing Update and Expansion

As the document is improved and extended, data will be updated as well as coverage of topical and current conditions and new/updated data resources.

Version/Date -- 1.0.0 1/7/2009

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