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HighLevelIndustryAnalyst


Use the HighLevelIndustryAnalyst (HLIA) to analyze current and recent quarterly economic measures by county or region for high level industries. HLIA is an integrated software and database tool that you can use on your Win32 computer. The database contains quarterly, national scope, county level data starting in the first quarter of 2006 and is updated quarterly.

Use HLIA to answer questions like:
  • What is the industrial/type of business/ make-up of counties or regions interest?
  • How has the economy of these areas changed by quarter during the past year?
  • What do these trends and industrial composition attributes suggest about the future?
  • What areas are changing, how fast, and by what amount and what might he impact be?
  • How do the composition and trends for one county/region compare to others?

HLIA is ultra-easy to use. Click a county and the profile displays. Select a different view (percentages) and see the distribution by percentages.

The following HLIA graphic shows quarterly data for New York, NY (Manhattan): the number of establishments (est06q1), employment (emp06q1) and average weekly wages (aww06q1) for high level industries for the first quarter of 2006. As of April 2008, HLIA includes an seven quarter series running through third quarter 2007. The fourth quarter 2007 data will be added in July 2008.

Insights. HLIA reveals that the Manhattan Financial Activities sector Average Weekly Wage in the 1st quarter 2006 was $8,177 (see graphic at left). How does this compare to your areas of interest? How does this value change over the year? What was the value in the same quarter of 2007? All answers easily accessible using HLIA.

Click on Select View - Percent to view industry data as percentages of total. Then click LQ button to view Location Quotients. Choose the U.S., state, or any county to serve as the base in computing the location quotient. Then click a cell to view a pie chart showing LQ by industry pie chart.

click for larger view then press F11 key

HLIA uses employer data, reported and tabulated quarterly, on the number of establishments, employment, and average weekly earnings by industrial category. The database is updated quarterly by Proximity using the "ES-202" data tabulated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. These data have only a 7-to-8 month lag between the data of reference and date of access in HLIA.

View data for a single county or aggregates for any county grouping. Click in the listbox of counties to select one county; or click on several counties to multi-select and aggregate dynamically. Optionally run multi-county selections from county list file.

View data as as point-and-click, on-demand graphics including time series charts (any item over all time periods) and pie charts (industry composition, any period) as shown below.


click for larger view then press F11 key

2008 Updates
Jan2007 2nd quarter
Apr2007 3rd quarter
Jul2007 4th quarter
Oct2008 1st quarter
How it Works. HLIA is available on a no fee and fee basis. Users of either version may download and start using the current version immediately.

The fee-based HLIA includes the ability to:
  • Download quarterly database updates.
  • Save display to Excel file.
  • Export data for mapping with CommunityViewer.
  • Export times-series data structure suitable for modeling and time-series analysis.
  • View data series as chart graphic - just click a display cell.
  • Perform queries to locate counties meeting certain conditions.
  • Rank counties based on user specified fields.
  • Aggregate data for counties, then perform above operations on multi-county aggregated area.
  • Optionally estimate suppressed data cells (data for some cells suppressed for purposes of confidentiality).

Fee-based HLIA users also have access to telephone and e-mail support.

Register to get started now. Use the Contact Proximity form and key in "HLIA" in the message section.

Industry Classifications. Economic data such as the number of establishments, employment and earnings are often defined/grouped by the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). High Level, or Level 1, industries are the highest/most aggregated/ level of industry grouping (e.g., Manufacturing, Retail Trade, etc.). More detailed levels (2, 3, etc.) provide more specific industry groupings, or “sub-sectors” (such as Plastics Products, Textile Products, Transportation Equipment, each within the Manufacturing High Level Industry and Coal Mining and Oil and Gas Extraction, each within the Natural Resources and Mining High Level Industry).

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