Void Analysis with Sites USA

Empty leases are one of those constant struggles for any landlord with retail space. Finding the right tenant to match your available space and matching the other tenants in your center can be a hard thing to do. Then there is the global pandemic. Large and small...

Data Focus: Ancestry

Among the many current-year estimates we build from the American Community Survey and decennial Census is ancestry. The ACS asks the question in the following manner – “What is this person’s ancestry or ethnic origin? (For example: Italian, Jamaican,...

Unemployment Models At Six Months

For at least a decade, the AGS labor force models have been fairly stable in terms of data sources and techniques, using a combination of the annual American Community Survey (ACS) block group data and the monthly unemployment updates for states and large metropolitan...

Data Focus: Year Structure Built

Among the many housing related variables in the AGS library, the year structure built table almost always appears on multi-page demographic reports and is an integral component of analysis in insurance and home repair. Many home repair services are based on franchise...

Vaccines in America: Acceptance and Skeptics

Over the last few years, vaccines have become more and more controversial across the U.S. On the verge of a new vaccine for COVID-19, we looked at those that are most likely to go out and get a new vaccine, and those that are more skeptical. For the data, we looked at...