by Elyse Menger | Mar 21, 2024 | Covid-19 and Data, Demographics, Methodology
Demographic change is generally slow moving, except in times of crisis. This is especially true at the national level but is also often true of small areas. Change is generally best considered as two separate components: Gradual change, such as the impacts of...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 14, 2024 | Covid-19 and Data
It’s hard to believe, but four years ago this month, much of the United States put up the closed sign in an attempt to slow the spreading of the COVID-19 outbreak through the declaration of public health emergencies. Within two weeks of the beginning of the...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 31, 2023 | Covid-19 and Data, Employment Data, Retail Data
The restrictions imposed on retail oriented businesses during the COVID pandemic had substantial effects on retail employment. At a local level, the effects were very much dependent upon the particular type of retail and the specific policies enacted at local and...
by Gary Menger | Mar 18, 2021 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
The world of neighborhood demographics can be almost glacial. Long term trends may be understood, but people are generally sticky and slow to respond to change. In the mid-1960’s at the peak of the American automobile industry, the writing was already on the wall for...
by Gary Menger | Mar 18, 2021 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
As most will know, this week marks the one-year anniversary of what has turned out to be a very long three weeks to flatten the curve. No area of the country – indeed, the world – has been spared from the substantial loss of life, personal freedom, and economic...
by Gary Menger | Dec 3, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted the attention of many data scientists who have happily set off to apply their methods to epidemiology, and unwittingly have waded directly into the complex issues which ‘quantitative geography’ often painfully learned of some...
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