Timothy F. Slaper Indiana Business Research Center Kelley School of Business Indiana University

1. Serving Up Data: Integrated Economic and Demographic Profiles at Your Fingertips Timothy F. Slaper Indiana Business Research Center Kelley School of Business Indiana University 52nd Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, OK June, 2012

2. STATSAmericaTheRegional Data Toolkit • Economic and Demographic Data • Regional Profiles • Custom Region Builder • Measuring Innovation • Innovation Index • Measuring Distress

3. Data tools have much in common • Powered by the IBRC database with 1 billion plus records (and growing) • Easy-to-use • Free! • Build you own region capability • Graphing and mapping • No service charge! • Nationwide comparisons • Accurate and timely • At a price you can afford!

4. Why STATSAmerica? • Develop data-driven regional development strategies • Identify unique competitive advantages • Identify economic assets • What are the economic and demographic trends? • Need data to track industry, employment and workforce changes • What does the region specialize in? • Socio-economic benchmarking, location quotients

5. Why STATSAmerica? • Define and compare against the region’s peers • Economy, population, resources, transportation linkages, education, natural amenities • What can be learned from peer leaders/laggards? • What are the region’s existing and emerging clusters? • EDA funded the development of the website under the project “Crossing the Next Regional Frontier”

6. Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: Counties in Profile Using StatsAmerica

9. Click on the link for the county overview

11. Click on the rank to get data for all counties

12. You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.

13. Find By Value Find your peers based on socio-economic characteristics

14. Find your peers based on socio-economic characteristics

15. Find By Value

16. Find By Value—Results Click on a county to get that county’s profile, e.g., Chaves County, NM

18. Region Profile by Radius

19. Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: County-Metro Side-by-Side Comparing Profiles

21. Compare up to four areas across the nation side-by-side

22. Four Counties Side-by-Side You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.

23. Four Counties Side-by-Side You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.

24. Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: States in Profile State Profiles

27. Complete State Profile Click on the rank to get data for all counties

29. Data for all states conveniently packaged in one Excel file

30. Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: Innovation Index Measuring Innovation

32. Select counties either by the state/county menu or the map selection

33. Predefined Regions Too!

35. MS Three Rivers Planning and Development Commission

36. Click on graphic to drill down into the sub-components and data

37. Four sub-indexes plus state context

38. Each measure is also graphed Establishment churn and establishment sizes are two measures within economic dynamics

39. Drill down to the data by county

40. Distress indicators for federal grants—EDA application criterion Measuring Distress

42. Measuring Distress • Distress indicators for federal grants ― EDA guidelines for distress • Nationwide ― counties, districts, tracts • Region builder • Calculates thresholds automatically • Current, accurate source data

43. Select County or Census Tract

44. LAUS bulk download files for counties are also available.

45. Measuring Distress—Custom Region

46. Regional Summary

47. County Details

48. Census Tracts Easy to select using map or drop downs

49. Neighborhood and Tract Details

50. LAUS bulk download files for counties are also available. Look for link at bottom of page.