GEO 551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Census Tract, Cluster Analysis, Geographic Data And Information
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Development planning: don"t control everything happening in your municipality, cities compete for similar industries, value chain, can happen in various locations, connects different cities together, incorporate that in assignment, city planning. Data sources: census, different agencies with data, naics code: agreed upon international codes for certain industries, municipality data (we will use this, employer reports: business plan documents, financial reports etc, private data: about companies, public laws, news information, valuable information. Don"t have to go into that much depth but can if you want to: use these to scale up comparisons, inter regional comparisons, how your policies will play out, compare with municipalities that used similar policies, smaller cities have like for like comparisons, what parts of the economy make up the local economic base: jobs data, download the data from library website (collections > geodata, maps, statistics > statistics and data > expand statistics > chass (occupation data: splits people up according to their occupation and industry) cma code,
