Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart -- Community Development Resources

Resources: Methods and Tools: Miscellaneous

Title:	Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods
Summary:	Search engine, link to tools and tutorials, for a variety of forms of analysis
URL:	http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/

Title:	Census of Retail Trade: Online Data to Analyze Business Opportunities
Summary:	Provides guidance on the uses of the Census of Retail Trade for economic development.
URL:	http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/publicat/tmacrt.html

Title:	Community Build-Out Analysis Software
Summary:	Free downloadable software for zoning impact analysis.
Location:	Center for Rural Studies
URL:	http://crs.uvm.edu/cpdp/buildout/

Title:	Community Profile and Trend Analysis 1998
Summary:	Example community profile and trend analysis (pdf).
URL:	http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/about/community.pdf

Title:	Community Profile Network
Summary:	Network of more than 700 community profiles online.
URL:	http://www.villageprofile.com/

Title:	CSISS Select Tools
Summary:	Provides a variety of spatial analytic tools from simple interactive visual graphics to advanced forms of integrated GIS/econometric analysis.
Location:	Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
URL:	http://www.csiss.org/clearinghouse/select-tools.php3

Title:	DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis
Summary:	Free downloadable distributive analysis software, provides measures for poverty, inequality, concentration and more. User manual available, but not very transparent.
URL:	http://www.mimap.ecn.ulaval.ca/about.html

Title:	Economic Base Concept and Analysis
Summary:	Provides explanations on how to complete different types of economic base and impact analysis.
URL:	http://faculty.washington.edu/~krumme/350/econbase.html

Title:	Economic Base Theory
Summary:	Explanation of economic base theory; useful for regional analysis.
Location:	Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning
URL:	http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~tchapin/urp5261/topics/econbase.htm

Title:	Indicators for Vulnerability Analysis
Summary:	Provides a guide to indicators for conducting vulnerability analysis.
URL:	http://www.pdsouth.elcat.kg/rlewr2000/annex_2.html

Title:	Issues and Tools
Summary:	Project and decision making guides/worksheets. Includes stakeholder analysis, community planning, rapid assessment, cost benefit analysis and more.
URL:	http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/upgrading/issues-tools/

Title:	MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health
Summary:	Residential segregation and poverty concentration measures.
URL:	http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Social%20Environment/notebook/segregation2.html

Title:	Missouri Population Trend Analysis 1990-1999
Summary:	This application gives you access to population trends with components of change for Missouri during the decade of the 1990's. You get to choose the variables, time periods and geographic areas of interest. Output can be in the form of a report and/or bar charts depicting the chosen variables for the chosen time periods and geographic areas.
URL:	http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/mscdcapps/chart_popchange/

Title:	Missouri Statistical Profiling System
Summary:	This application provides access to an extensive collection of economic and demographic reports ("profiles") for a series of geographic areas organized by geographic universe and summary levels. In most cases, the data used to create the profiles can be accessed in comma-separated-value ("csv") files. Basic tables, economic profiles, and trend reports available for select geography (Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and US).
URL:	http://oseda.missouri.edu/MOSTATS/

Title:	Research Advisory Services
Summary:	A variety of information on conducting economic and demographic research, including guidance on using GIS, location quotients, and surveys. Offers a survey sample size calculator, city population profiles, and more.
Location:	AZPlanSite
URL:	http://www.azplansite.com/index.htm

Title:	Resources for the Future
Summary:	Provides a variety of tools and methods, such as non-market valuation, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis and more.
URL:	http://www.rff.org/

Title:	Sustainable Development Indicators
Summary:	Provides guidance on establishing local, regional, and international indicators for sustainable development.
URL:	http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/indicators/index.htm

Title:	The University of Texas Inequality Project
Summary:	This site offers a guide and links to inequality data, and web presentations. It provides interactive graphics of various inequality measures between states and counties.
URL:	http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/

Title:	Tools of the Trade
Summary:	Clearinghouse on economic development strategy, planning, rural/urban neighborhood development, economic data, business development, and more.
Location:	US Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration
URL:	http://www.osec.doc.gov/eda/HTML/2b_toolsoftrade.htm

Title:	World Income Inequality Database
Summary:	Summary of approaches on measuring inequality, links to other sites.
Location:	United Nations Development Programme
URL:	http://www.undp.org/poverty/initiatives/wider/wiid_measure.htm

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