The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Location Quotient Calculator was discontinued as of March, 2017. Please try the following options: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) on Location Quotients QCEW Location Quotient Details If you need a refresher on Location Quotients, please see Location-Quotients and TRED (Targeting Regional Economic Development) by CCED’s own Steve Deller.
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Detailed county-level data on the number and of religious congregations and the number of members by church type is available free online. The data includes twelve major religions (i.e. Roman Catholic, Hindu, Islamic, Pentecostal) and 233 specific religious groups (i.e. Evangelical Methodist Church, Christian Science Churches, and Baha’i Faith). A new map-based exploration tool is also available. […]
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Looking for historical U.S. Census data? The U.S. Census provides easy access to historical population, housing, and agricultural data from 1790 to 2010. Most of the of the data is available at the state and county levels.
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The question “What is rural?” seems to be the subject to a never-ending debate. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) provides some guidance. The ERS has identified nine different categories for classifying counties by their degree of urbanization. These nine Rural-Urban Continuum Codes are below: The ERS also has more […]
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Want to know how long it will take to pay off your credit card balance if you only pay the minimum monthly payment? The Dallas Federal Reserve developed a credit card repayment calculator that will quickly and easily calculate how long it will take to pay off your credit card balance. All you need are […]
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) provides information on the buying habits of American consumers. Many private data providers rely on the CES as the basis for their projections. Reported annually, the CES includes spending on a wide variety of consumer goods and services ( i.e. food, clothing, household goods, automobiles). Broad […]
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The Human Development (HD) Index, a unique and valuable tool developed by the American Human Development Project, is a quality of life indicator comprised of three elements: health, knowledge, and standard of living. The three components are based on over 100 variables ranging from typical demographic data such as education, income, and employment to health […]
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The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) releases estimates every 5 years; they include margins of error for each individual value. However, if adding several values are added together margins of error for the sum must be recalculated. The ACS Statistical Calculator can assist with that. Don’t worry if you can’t remember how to calculate the margin […]
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides an easy-to-use Inflation Calculator that quickly calculates buying power equivalencies between different years. It uses the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) U.S. city average series for all items, not seasonally adjusted. This data represents changes in the prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.
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Need quick information on a Congressional District? The U.S. Census has a tool called My Congressional District that quickly pulls up demographic, employment, housing, socio-economic, education, and business data and allows users to download it. This data is collected through the American Community Survey and County Business Patterns.
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