Research Extra Flashcards
LQ
Ratio of industry’s share of local employment/share of the nation
LQ<1 = importing LQ>1 = exporting
Formula: (local employment in I)(total local employment)/(reference area employment in industry I)(total reference area employment)
FAR
Total floor area / total lot area
Oregon model
1st place to pioneer use of community based visioning
Interval data
Ordered relationship where the difference between scales has a meaningful interpretation EX temperature
Qualitative
Nominal, sometimes ordinal
Quantitative
Interval / ratio
Symptomatic method estimation
Used available data indirectly related to population size such as housing stats
Economic base analysis
Looks at basic / no basic economic activities. Basic = activities that can be exported, non basic = those local.
Stratified sampling
Mini reproduction of pop, divided into characteristics of importance
Cluster sampling
Specific target group is sampled
Systematic sampling
Every xth person is selected
Non probability sampling
No precisé connection between sample and population. Ex: convenience sample, snowball sample, volunteer sample
Projections
Calculated for future population levels (trend lines, scatter plot, regression)
Forecasts
Cohort survival, step down
Bias
Different between expected value of an estimator and real value.
Sampling error
Natural consequence because sample is small
Fiscal impact analysis is different from economic analysis
Economic focuses on cash flow to private sector
Transect zoning
T1-T6 (natural-rural, suburban, general urban, urban center, urban core)
Performance zoning
Performance standards regulate development by setting desired goals. Doesn’t restrict specific uses, just that uses must meet specific set of standards
Progressive tax
Tax rate increases as income increases
Proportional tax
Tax rate is the same regardless of income
Regressive tax
Tax rate decreases as income rises
ACS vs. Census
Acs: conducted every month, every year. Asks topics not on census (employment, education etc)
Census: every 10 years, shorter questions and provides official list of population for congressional representation
Census trends 2020 census
South shifting population. More than half of nation’s population growth in last decade (54%) occurred in southern states
Browning of America / intermarriage increase (2020 census)
Nonwhites =85% of America.
Marriage across racial and ethnic lines doubled since 1980
Gender shift (2020 census)
Women hold nearly 1/2 of paid jobs (44.8%), own 40% of all businesses and hold 43% of exec. Admin and managerial positions
In 2000 what area grew fastest
West
Between 2000 and 2010 what was the fastest growing state
Nevada 35%
Between 2000 and 2010, which state experienced highest numeric increase
Texas 4.3 mill
Which state has maintained growth rate
Nevada , growth rate of 25% or greater for last 3 decades
Palm coast fl
Fastest growing metro between 2000 and 2010 (92% increase in pop)
2020 census, how many metro areas grew
4/5
2020 census growth rate
Nation grew at its slowest rate since 1930s
Between 2010-2020 how many people lived in metropolitan statistical areas
86%
Among all US metro areas, which area grew fastest between 2010-2020
The villages, FL
Between 2010-2020, which state experienced largest numeric increase
Texas
Which state was fastest growing 2010-2020
Utah (18.4% increase)
2010-2020 pop change
Last decade 7.4% increase was lower than previous decades 9.7 and was lowest since 1930s
1 section equals how many acres
640
How many sq ft in 1 acre
43,560
1 mile is how many feet
5280 ft
Enterprise fund
Account established to manage revenues and expenditures of a self sufficient activity such as a golf corse
Revenue bond
Issued by municipality / backed by a specific steam of revenue like building a stadium
Tax increment
Additional property tax generated by development. The increment is “captured” to finance development costs
Step down method
Assumes relationship of locality to some larger geographic entity- county / state - will prevail in the future and that pop proj. At a larger scale represents degrees of reliability that are not possible to achieve at a small scale of analysis
Strong and weak correlation
+ or - 1 = strong correlation. Weak correlation would be value closest to 0
Indicators vs. benchmarks
Indicators are limited / distilled data that tell a story w/o requiring review of all relevant data. Benchmarks are a target measurement used to gauge how a community is doing in relation to a predetermined target
Getting to yes
Fisher, Ury, Patton: separate relationships from problem, focus on interests (what is really important to planners and not positions or a fixed idea how to achieve), search for mutual gain for all parties, active listening
triple constraint
Delay in one item : time scope and resources- decrease quality. Then have to add in other areas
GANTT
bar chart to track process
Critical path method
Sequence of required schedules activities that depend on each other, quickest and shortest time it can be done
