by Elyse Menger | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
During the last few months of 2020, unemployment rates were declining most everywhere and trending towards the record low levels from just before the pandemic. Since unchanging weekly data is neither interesting to model nor interesting to use, we decided to switch to...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the major innovations in trade area reporting came in the mid-1990’s with the introduction of the Freeway drive time engine which was actually the first product that AGS created. By using a grid representation of the road network, Freeway was able to produce...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the last 50 years, the landscape of American life has dramatically changed in many ways. Since 1970, the United States population has grown 1.27% on average per year. Using historical Census data, we looked at the concentration of that growth on our country....
by Elyse Menger | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
This week as we look at the Consumer Expenditures database, it is helpful to look at a specific example. We looked at elderly care expenditures by household nationwide to show how this database functions. The number of households reporting these expenditures is fairly...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dreaming of a White Christmas? Us too, but it won’t be happening for the staff of AGS. Everyone is located in the southern half of the United States, either in sunny Southern California, or in hot and humid Texas. As we think about those braving the major winter storm...
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