Database Overview: Behaviors and Attitudes

The Behavior and Attitudes database is a collection of modeled variables that are intended to complement and simplify the main Consumer Behavior MRI database by focusing on those key attitudes and behavioral characteristics that drive consumer behavior and lifestyles...

Who Will Pay for Medicare?

In a classic good news/bad news scenario, the recently released Social Security and Medicare trustees report says that the funds won’t be going broke quite as quickly as feared. The bad news, of course, is that a deferral of the inevitable by a year or two doesn’t...
Continued Challenges for the 2020 Census

Continued Challenges for the 2020 Census

On the plane from Dallas to Las Vegas on the way to ICSC, I sat next to a broker from Marcus & Millichap. We of course talked about the show, and he asked what we do here at AGS. Inevitably, the question always comes up: can’t people just use the Census data? The...

AGS Takes ICSC

This week, most of the AGS team attended the ICSC conference in Las Vegas. While Gary, Matt and Mike are longtime attendees, it was my first time attending. While I joined the AGS team in early 2020, the pandemic cancelled the conference the last few years. We had a...

May 2022 Round-Up

At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from May 2022. Carto Ever wonder why...