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  • MetroProfile
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Ranking Analysis
  • Metro MapViewer
  • Database & Updates



 
MetroDynamics: Assessing Competitive Position and Change

How are business opportunities changing by metro? What are the trends? Will trends be sustained? How does one metro compare to another metro or a set of metros based a selected measure or a composite of different factors? Which metro county and place/city components are growing faster or slower and how are they changing? MetroDynamics uniquely enables you to perform these analyses and get answers to these types of questions. With more than 93 percent of the U.S. population living in metropolitan areas, MD is an essential resource to examine demographic and economic composition and changing patterns.

MetroDynamics is a database and information service providing access to historical, current, and projected demographic, economic, and related data organized for metropolitan areas. Use MetroDynamics to view and analyze changing conditions and patterns in the context of trends and with data on employment, businesses, wages, population shifts, and many other metrics required to understand the real dynamics of one metro or a set of metros.

MetroDynamics Online. 4/28/08 updates ... access new metropolitan area ranking tables and related datasets. These ranking tables are designed for those interested in online access/analysis of metro data and acquiring demographic/economic data for use with spreadsheet and viewer software. See details.

Custom Estimates. We develop custom estimates of quarterly establishments and employment by detailed industry to meet your needs. Analyze competitive position for your specific types of business. More information.

Who Uses MD? Just about anyone who needs answers to types of the questions posed above. Businesses of all sizes and types need MD to get answers to questions relating to market opportunity, costs of doing business, and competitive position. Investors and the financial community use MD to assess viability of prospective investments, help determine risk, and examine alternatives. Individual metro stakeholder organizations can uniquely compare and contrast their metro to other metros to assist in attracting new businesses to their region and to promote reasons people should live in their region. Associations and special interest group organizations use MD to determine the dynamics of the size and distribution of companies and types of businesses or employment by industry where they have members or impact entities.

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Key Benefits. There is no other comparable set of multi-sourced, integrated data providing you with the most up-to-date data about each metropolitan area. Using MetroDynamics (MD), get answers to your questions. Back-up or refute instinctive feelings with hard data. Document conclusions with reports, tables, and maps. Using current definition metros, flexibly perform these types of operations ...

  • assess market opportunities
  • examine competitive position
  • learn about business/industry activity not available elsewhere
  • learn about trends
  • compare one metro to others
  • view maps of your locations in context of metros

Details on MD Operations and Features. See the related Web pages listed below for more information about specific features and operations of MetroDynamics.

  • Metro Profiles
  • Metro Comparative Analyses
  • Metro Ranking Analysis
  • Metro MapViewer
  • Database and Updating

Unique & Powerful Resource. MD is a problem solver. MD provides solutions to challenges facing analysts and decision-makers. MD uniquely enables you access the key diverse, disparate, and non-integrated Federal statistical data resources that become available at different times and in different formats. MetroDynamics provides you with access to a set of detailed, multi-sourced data organized for easy use and optional integration with your data.

MetroDynamics provides the analytical tools that enable you to easily access and analyze data and acquire the information that you need to make the best possible decisions.

Ordering Information. Use the MetroDynamics in the manner that best meets your needs.

1) Proximity MetroDynamics for interactive analysis on your Windows-based computer.

  • MD software with current and historical data
  • MD software with current and historical data and 12 month update subscription

2) Subscribe to MetroDynamics online
  ... online access to MetroProfile for any/all MSAs, updated quarterly.

3) Online access to selected MetroProfile for one to many metros.

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