Patterns, http://proximityone.com/patterns.htm, is a new a commentary/collaborative feature with focus on learning about and knowing:

Events often impact geodemographic-economic sectors/systems and result in change.  This feature provides commentary on such events, happenings, their coalescence and resulting patterns ... and how they might impact you.

Structured in a blog-like manner, new topics are posted several times weekly.  Let us know what you think!

New November 2009 estimates; release date: 1/5/10

See http://proximityone.com/county_employment.htm

While the U.S. lost 4.9 million jobs between 2008Q1 to 2009Q1, many sectors in many counties continue to grow.  Use the interactive ranking table at http://proximityone.com/macroview.htm to examine patterns in counties, regions and states of interest to you.  The interactive ranking table presents data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics quarterly census of employment and wages. Proximity integrates quarter to quarter data into a time-series structure and augments these data with related data to enable situation and outlook analyses for counties, metros and regions.

The March section will include an overview of MacroView for use on your computer with the County Trends Datasets.  Using MacroView on your computer enables extended time-series analyses, queries and many other analytical operations not available in the ranking table.  

MetroDynamics (MD) is updated with the detailed (subject matter data by maximum detailed NAICS category) 2009Q2 quarterly establishments, employment, and earnings (EEE) data based on employer reported data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ES-202 program.   See description of subject matter included in MD.  MD provides quarterly time series EEE data from 2004Q1 forward, then making a 22 quarter series.  Use the optional MD feature to estimate suppressed data and use continuous quarterly measurements in your analyses.

China's mid-year 2009 population is estimated to be 1.324 billion and projected to peak at 1.395 billion in 2026. The median age is projected to increase from 34.7 years (2009) to 41 years (2026), as the population 75 years and over grows from 41.2 million (2009) to 73.1 million (2026). How will demographic change occur? Which cities/regions will grow most rapidly? How will regional population composition be affected?

The new China DMI (Decision-Making Information) section (http://proximityone.com/china_dmi.htm) is a set of China-focused Web pages and related resources that illustrate use of analytical tools and geodemographics to help answer these types of questions. Effective access to and use of decision-making information is critical to the success of planning by business, governments and others.

The Census Bureau released the Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2010 in December 2009.  The Census Bureau releases the annual Statistical Abstract annually.  Perhaps the most widely used statistical compendium the Statistical Abstract also provides very useful reference to subject matter resources of all types from small area to global geography on current and historical basis.

Proximity has developed a variation of the Census Bureau Statistical Abstract.  See http://proximityone.com/statab/guide.  This version provides access to the identical statistical files/tables as referenced in the Census publication; the basic data are not being re-distributed.  The Proximity version compares to the Census Bureau version in the following ways:

• providing access to other related data.

• providing access to data in different interactive formats (e.g., ranking tables).

• providing data in GIS structures.

• providing updates and more recent data.

• augmenting user interface through use of toggles and other HTML coding operations.

• adding topical and subject matter indexing not found in the Census Bureau version.

• including expanded sources and references sections.

The State Demographic Trends section (http://proximityone.com/statetrends.htm) has been updated to include the July 1, 2009 state population estimates  released by Census in December and associated estimates of the voting age population, population 18 years and over.  This section provides access to these data via:

Each of these resources will be updated as new data/updates become available.

January Web Sessions

Join us in any or all of these no-fee, one-hour sessions ...

Using CommunityViewer Sessions (most Tuesdays)

GIS & GeoDemographics -- Selected Topics Sessions (most Thursdays)

Register here: http://proximityone.com/webmeetings.htm

CommunityViewer Updates ...

The Applications Gallery http://proximityone.com/gallery/guide illustrates wide-ranging applications and projects developed using CommunityViewer and related geodemographic-economic resources.   This section reviews new and updated topics.

Census Day is April 1, 2010, and marks the reference date for Census 2010 data.  The Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) is now integrally linked with Census 2010.  The "Census 2010/ACS" DMINews section provides monthly highlights of current and pending developments regarding these programs.  The focus is on data access and use and to a lesser extent data development and related operations. Proximity will continue to maintain the decennial census focused Web pages Census 2000 and Census 2010.

RankingTables -- http://proximityone.com/rankingtables.htm