Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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517
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Government Statistics Section
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Abstract #312753
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Title:
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Education Expenditure Comparison Areas
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Author(s):
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Satkartar Kinney*+
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Companies:
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NISS
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Keywords:
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wage index ;
American Community Survey ;
economic data ;
education data
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Abstract:
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There are several metropolitan and micropolitan area definitions used by government agencies for policy and analysis purposes. In our use of the American Community Survey to develop a wage index controlling for uncontrollable differences in wages, we found that none of the existing definitions suited our purposes. We required a "labor market" definition that covered the entire country, including rural areas, adhered to county or township boundaries, and that had a sizable minimum population. We utilize spatial methods to cluster counties based on economic characteristics and proximity, such that the worker population in each labor market is large enough to yield a stable index with reasonable standard errors.
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