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Serving Up Data: Integrated Economic and Demographic Profiles at Your Fingertips. Timothy F. Slaper Indiana Business Research Center Kelley School of Business Indiana University. 52 nd Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, OK June, 2012. STATS America The Regional Data Toolkit.
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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
STATSAmericaTheRegional Data Toolkit • Economic and Demographic Data • Regional Profiles • Custom Region Builder • Measuring Innovation • Innovation Index • Measuring Distress
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!
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
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”
Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: Counties in Profile Using StatsAmerica
You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.
Find By Value Find your peers based on socio-economic characteristics
Find By Value—Results Click on a county to get that county’s profile, e.g., Chaves County, NM
Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: County-Metro Side-by-Side Comparing Profiles
Four Counties Side-by-Side You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.
Four Counties Side-by-Side You’ll have to use the “edit-select all” and “copy” commands to move data into a spreadsheet.
Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: States in Profile State Profiles
Complete State Profile Click on the rank to get data for all counties
Benchmarking and Peer Analysis: Innovation Index Measuring Innovation
Select counties either by the state/county menu or the map selection
Click on graphic to drill down into the sub-components and data
Each measure is also graphed Establishment churn and establishment sizes are two measures within economic dynamics
Distress indicators for federal grants—EDA application criterion Measuring Distress
Measuring Distress • Distress indicators for federal grants ― EDA guidelines for distress • Nationwide ― counties, districts, tracts • Region builder • Calculates thresholds automatically • Current, accurate source data
Census Tracts Easy to select using map or drop downs
LAUS bulk download files for counties are also available. Look for link at bottom of page.