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Methodology Statement: ESRI's Scorecard Analysis [PDF]
Date: April 2008
Subject: ESRI's Scorecard Analysis highlights the demographic variables that best describe the market area around an existing business.
Methodology Statement: 2007 Diversity Index [PDF]
Date: October 2007
Subject: This white paper defines the U.S. Diversity Index and discusses the features of the ESRI race and ethnic origin database that is supplemented by a Diversity Index.
Methodology Statement: Consumer Expenditure Database [PDF]
Date: September 2007
Subject: This methodology white paper describes how ESRI integrates data from the latest Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CEX)—Diary Survey and the Interview Survey—from the Bureau of Labor Statistics with the Community Tapestry segmentation system to provide a comprehensive database about all consumer expenditures.
Methodology Statement: 2007 Retail MarketPlace [PDF]
Date: July 2007
Subject: This document explains how ESRI built the Retail MarketPlace database to provide a complete assessment of the retail marketplace, including a measure of the difference between supply and demand by industry sector.
Methodology Statement: Market Potential Database [PDF]
Date: July 2007
Subject: This document explains how ESRI calculates its Market Potential data by combining ESRI's Community Tapestry segmentation data with consumer survey data from Mediamark Research Inc. Doublebase 2005.
Methodology Statement: 2007 Tapestry Methodology [PDF]
Date: July 2007
Subject: This document describes how ESRI uses the traditional statistical methodology of cluster analysis with the latest data-mining techniques to create Community Tapestry.
Methodology Statement: infoUSA Business Database [PDF]
Date: July 2007
Subject: This methodology statement describes how ESRI creates its business database using data from infoUSA.
ESRI Demographic Update Methodology: 2007/2012 [PDF]
Date: June 2007
Subject: Current events, such as rising inflation or interest rates, and regional distinctions, like the availability of jobs or affordable housing, affect the social and economic trends that are captured in the 2007 updates.
Evaluating Population Projections: The Importance of Accurate Forecasting [PDF]
Date: April 2007
Subject: This white paper explains the importance of accurate forecasting after each decennial census and the methodology created and used by ESRI to develop its demographic data forecasts.
A Break from the Past: ESRI's 2006 Demographic Updates [PDF]
Date: September 2006
Subject: In 2006, ESRI implemented Address-Based Allocation (ABA), a new technique that measures population change by block group, and introduced a new data source to track residential construction.
ESRI's Gulf Coast Updates Methodology: 2006/2011 [PDF]
Date: August 2006
Subject: This white paper details how ESRI's data development team created a new methodology to reveal the demographic changes in the Gulf Coast region from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
The American Community Survey and the Data User Community [PDF]
Date: March 2006
Subject: This white paper, written by Lynn Wombold, ESRI's chief demographer and manager of the data development team, was presented at the 2005 Applied Geography Conference. The paper explains the basic differences between the Census 2000 sample and ACS and addresses the implications for data users.
ESRI Data & Maps 2006 [PDF]
Date: May 2007
Subject: This white paper provides information on the ESRI Data & Maps 2006 CD. This paper covers the data sets, the updated data sets, map documents (MXDs), completely updated metadata, and added layer metadata.
Trends in the U.S. Multiracial Population from 1990–2000 [PDF]
Date: November 2005
Subject: This white paper, presented at the Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting, provides a detailed discussion of how ESRI's data development team estimated the multiracial population in 1990. This approach provides a correspondence between the 1990 Census and Census 2000, and the opportunity to measure change in the single- and multi-race populations.
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