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| show | 1. Goals and visions; 2. Analysis of current problems, and 3. Creation and evaluation of alternatives.
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| What are the eight elements to a strategic plan? | show 🗑
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| show | Short Term - approximately 5 years
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| show | Visioning is a process whereby citizens attend a series of meetings that provide the opportunity for them to offer input on how the community could be in the future.
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| show | Yes
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| What is a Survey? | show 🗑
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| What is a cross-sectional survey? | show 🗑
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| show | A longitudinal survey gathers information about a population over a period of time.
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| show | Written surveys are popular when trying to obtain info from a broad audience and it is low cost and convenient for respondents. Challenges: Low response rates (avg 20%), requires ability to read and write.
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| show | when there is a specific population that a planner is trying to target. Type of survey allows high and quick response rate. Examples is recreation participants filling out a survey after a class. Requires small sample size.
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| show | A Drop-off survey allows the survey to be dropped off at someone's residence or business. Advantages include higher response rates than mailing. Disadvantages include high time and expense requirements. Smaller sample size.
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| show | Survey usually administered on the phone or in person.
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| show | Advantages: Useful when you need yes/no answers, allows follow-up and further explanation. Disadvantages: Response rates vary, expensive survey method, can be biased due to interaction, difficult to administer long or multiple choice questions.
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| What are the advantages and disadvantages of online surveys? | show 🗑
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| What are important survey design points? | show 🗑
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| What is a convenience sample? | show 🗑
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| What is a volunteer sample? | show 🗑
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| What is a random sample? | show 🗑
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| show | Participants are divided into groups, or classes, from which a sample is drawn. Can lead to probability testing.
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| Should thought be given to sampling type and number? | show 🗑
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| show | 1:24,000 or 1 inch = 2,000 feet
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| What are the three basic types of map projections? | show 🗑
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| What are contour lines? Contour intervals? | show 🗑
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| show | The change in elevation divided by the horizontal distance.
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| show | 0-0.5% = no drainage, not suited for dev 0.5-1% = no problems, ideal for all types of dev 1-3% = slight prob for lrg com areas acceptable for res 3-5% = mjr prob for com/ind/lrg scale residential;
5-10% = suitable only for specially designed development.
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| Which term is used to describe an area with multiple-cities with a combined population of more than 10 million inhabitants? | show 🗑
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| show | Krumholz
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| show | MBO is a process of agreeing upon objectives within an org so that mgmt and employees agree to the objectives and understand what they are. MBO term was first popularized by Peter Drucker in 1954 in his book 'The Practice of Management'.
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| What is the Cohort Survival Population estimation method? | show 🗑
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| The American Planning Association created which of the following documents to encourage states to revise their standard state zoning enabling acts? | show 🗑
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| show | it is 1 of sev related techniques for doing proj plan. CPM is for projects that are made up of a number of ind "activities." If some of the activities require other activities to finish before they can start, then the proj becomes a complex web of act.
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| show | Single family dwelling
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| What is the national rate of homeownership? | show 🗑
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| Associated Home Builders of Greater East Bay v. City of Livermore dealt with what issues? | show 🗑
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| Does the Tennesse Valley Authority cover a multi-state area? | show 🗑
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| What did the New York Tenement House Law of 1901 do? | show 🗑
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| show | Inclusionary Zoning
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| What is cost-revenue analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | Congress created MPOs in order to ensure that existing and future expenditures for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive (“3-C”) planning process
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| What does Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act do? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Lindblom
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| In new development, who is typically responsible for construction of streets, curbs, water, and sewer on the development project site? | show 🗑
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| show | A hypothesis test is a test for the acceptance or rejection of a hypothesis.
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| show | Economic forecasting helps to determine the growth in jobs in the community which translates to demand for commercial business land uses.
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| What is a CDP, according to the US Census? | show 🗑
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| show | Newark hired Bartholomew, making him at age twenty-four the first full-time municipally employed city planner in the United States.
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| show | 5th Amendment: Takings
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| Is the Appalachian Regional Commission a Multi-State effort? | show 🗑
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| What Federal Department is theNational Register of Historic Places found? | show 🗑
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| What are elements of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities | show 🗑
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| show | Fiscal impact analysis generally refers to efforts to estimate the budgetary effects of various types of land uses on local governmental jurisdictions or other local service providers.
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| What book written in 1961 critiques the practice of planning? | show 🗑
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| show | List of Milestones
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| show | Funds for urban renewal.
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| show | Eminent domain for aesthetic purposes.
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| show | Level of Service ranges from A to F with A being the best level of service and F the lowest level of service.
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| show | According to the wireless industry there are approximately 150,000 cell tower sites.
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| A capital improvement budget includes those facilities that are planned for construction in which of the following time spans? | show 🗑
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| What is an effective way to validate community opinion? | show 🗑
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| Who was the author of the Geography of Nowhere? | show 🗑
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| show | An empowerment zone is a federally designated distressed area in need of sustainable community development. EZ is designed to afford communities real opportunities for growth and revitalization.
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| show | The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is a United States federal law that established the General Services Administration which is responsible for managing, acquiring, and disposing of federal property.
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| show | Groupware includes a variety of electronic technologies that support virtual collaboration. These techniques use hardware, software, and or internet technology to allow for sophisticated collaboration activities.
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| show | yes
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| show | Open Space allows for people to propose topics to discuss and those who are interested choose to participate in that dialogue. The groups prepare summaries of their discussion to share with the entire group.
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| Which Act was created in 1944? | show 🗑
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| The Supreme Court dealt with which of the following issues in Nectow v. City of Cambridge? | show 🗑
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| show | According to the US Department of Energy annual energy consumption has increase dramatically since the 1920s. The Department of Energy plans to increase by 29 percent between 2000 and 2020.
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| Which of the following standards for air and water quality restrict the discharge of pollutants into the environment? | show 🗑
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| What is the most likely to be used as an alternative travel mode to the automobile to get to and from work? | show 🗑
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| show | No: The US Dept of Commerce uses an index of 12 leading indicators to measure the direction of the econ. These include interest rates, stock prices, oil prices, unemployment, housing starts and consumer expectations are all part of the leading indicators.
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| What is an LULU? | show 🗑
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| Who was Herbert Simon? | show 🗑
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| show | 1949
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| show | advocate of com organizing. organized Chicagos poor in the 30s and 40s. In 1946 he pub Reveille for Radicals, which encouraged those poor to become involved in democracy. also published Rules for Radicals, which provided 13 rules for com organizing.
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| Which of the following was an important outcome of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company? | show 🗑
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| You are a planner in a medium sized city. You have been accused of a violation of the AICP Code of ethics. You may be disciplined by a majority vote of which of the following? | show 🗑
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| What did Calthorpe propose? | show 🗑
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| Which city was home to the first Council of Government? | show 🗑
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| What is an audience response system? | show 🗑
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| This author provided seminal contributions to the field of city planning through empirical research on how individuals perceive and navigate the urban landscape. | show 🗑
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| show | 1978
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| What is Multiattribute Utility Analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | Participatory Rural Appraisal is a group of techniques that allow for the provision and analysis of information by the public. These are typically highly visual including creation of maps or picture cards.
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| What is cost effectiveness analysis? | show 🗑
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| What issue did olden v. Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo deal with? | show 🗑
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| show | To assist city or county officials determine if a project will generate sufficient revenue to defray necessary public service costs
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| show | A null hypothesis is a neutral statement that does not suggest the direction of the result.
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| show | 1956, Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota was the first indoor, climate-controlled regional mall.
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| show | Cincinnati, Ohio
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| show | Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.1898
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| What is advocacy planning? | show 🗑
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| What is an environmental assessment? | show 🗑
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| What was the issue of Dolan v. Tigard? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote Image of the City? | show 🗑
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| What is shift-share analysis? | show 🗑
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| Were source of water, sewage disposal, and condominium status eliminated from the 2000 Census? | show 🗑
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| What is location quotient? | show 🗑
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| show | The idea was to create complete neighborhoods that provided convenient access for residents to school and businesses.
The correct answer is: Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs
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| What are the six transects in transect theory? | show 🗑
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| Who pioneered indoor shopping malls; developed the new town of Columbia, Maryland; Baltimore's Harbor Place; and Boston's Fanueil Hall. | show 🗑
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| Which U.S. Supreme Court case is considered a landmark ruling that made government agency decisions subject to judicial review and also spurred the creation of large numbers of citizens groups dedicated to environmental activism? | show 🗑
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| show | Saul Alinsky
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| show | Paul Davidoff
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| Which is the most common technique used to resolve conflict? | show 🗑
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| show | All of the Above
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| show | A direct vote on an issue.
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| show | Chicago
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| show | Bassett wrote the New York City Zoning Ordinance in 1916.
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| In calculating FAR, do all the floor count in a multi story building? | show 🗑
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| show | form-based zoning
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| Which cities saw the largest growth in their downtown population between 2000 and 2010? | show 🗑
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| What is the Delphi Method? | show 🗑
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| show | Design with Nature.
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| Who wrote Silent Spring in 1962? | show 🗑
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| What is floor area ratio (FAR)? | show 🗑
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| What are descriptive statistics? | show 🗑
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| What are inferential Statistics? | show 🗑
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| What is central tendency? | show 🗑
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| What is mode? | show 🗑
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| show | Mean is the average of a distribution. The mean of [2, 3, 4, 5] is 3.5.A weighted mean is when there is greater importance placed on specific entries or when the frequency distribution results in a representative value being assigned for each class.
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| What is median? | show 🗑
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| show | Nominal data is classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race, social security number, and sex are examples of nominal data. Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be used for nominal data.
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| What is ordinal data? | show 🗑
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| show | Ratio data has an ordered relationship and equal intervals. Distance is an example of ratio data because 3.2 miles is twice as long as 1.6 miles. Any form of central tendency can be used for this type of data.
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| What is the the difference between qualitative variables and quantitative variables? | show 🗑
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| What are continuous variables? | show 🗑
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| What are dichotomous variables? | show 🗑
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| What is a hypothesis test? | show 🗑
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| What is a null hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| What is an alternative hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| What is a normal distribution with regards to data distribution? | show 🗑
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| What is range? | show 🗑
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| show | Variance is the average squared difference of scores from the mean score of a distribution.Variance is a descriptor of a probability distribution, how far the numbers lie from the mean.
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| What is standard deviation? | show 🗑
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| show | Standard Error is the standard deviation of a sampling distribution. Standard errors indicate the degree of sampling fluctuation. The larger the sample size the smaller the standard error.
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| What is a confidence interval? | show 🗑
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| show | Chi Square is a non-parametric test statistic that provides a measure of the amount of difference between two frequency distributions. Chi Square is commonly used for probability distributions in inferential statistics.
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| show | The z-score is a measure of the distance, in standard deviation units, from the mean.This allows one to determine the likelihood, or probability that something would happen.
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| show | The t-test allows the comparisons of the means of two groups to determine how likely the difference between the two means occurred by chance.
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| What is ANOVA? | show 🗑
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| What is a correlation? | show 🗑
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| show | The Correlation Coefficient indicates the type and strength of the relationship between variables, ranging from -1 to 1. The closer to 1 the stronger the relationship between the variables.
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| What is regression? | show 🗑
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| show | The linear method uses the rate of growth (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population.
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| show | The exponential method uses the rate of growth (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population. For example, growing 2% per year for 20 years. Two percent of 2,000 people is larger than 2% of 1,000 people.
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| show | It uses available data to estimate the current population. For instance, the avg household size is 2.5 according to the U.S. Census. If 100 new single-family building permits are issued this yr, approximately 250 new people will be added to the community.
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| What is the Step-Down Ratio Method of population projection and estimation? | show 🗑
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| show | This method uses the Census Bureau data for the number of housing units, which is then multiplied by the occupancy rate and persons per household. This method is reliable for slow growth or stable communities.
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| What is the Cohort Survival Method of population projection and estimation? | show 🗑
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| What is economic base analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is a location quotient? | show 🗑
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| show | Shift-share analysis analyzes a local economy in comparison with a larger economy. This analysis looks at the differential shift, proportional shift, and economic growth. This method uses employment information by sector for two points in time.
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| What is input-output analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | The Census Bureau defines an urbanized area wherever it finds an urban nucleus of 50,000 or more people.
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| As defined in the US census what is an Urban Cluster? | show 🗑
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| show | Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants, or an urbanized area (of at least 50,000 inhabitants), and a total metropolitan population of at least 100,000.
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| As defined in the US census what is a Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | show 🗑
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| show | Census Designated Places (CPD) is the equivalent of an incorporated place for data purposes. This is for settled concentrations of population that are not incorporated.
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| As defined in the US census what is a Consolodated MSA (CMSA? | show 🗑
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| show | "any many-centered, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, generally dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks of economic specialization."
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| show | Census Tract typically has a population between 2,000 and 8,000 people. It is the smallest area where all information is released.
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| How many housing units per census block? | show 🗑
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| What does minor civil division apply to? | show 🗑
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| What is a tribal designated statistical area? | show 🗑
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| What is a threshold population? | show 🗑
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| show | 81%
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| show | Nevada (35%), Arizona (25%), and Utah (24%).
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| what was the only state to lose population between 2000-2010? | show 🗑
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| show | he average household size went down from 3.1 in 1970 to 2.59 in 2010.
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| What is the median age for 2010 census? | show 🗑
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| show | 1946-1964
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| What years were generation x born? | show 🗑
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| show | 1977-2000
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| show | after 2000
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| show | Fiscal Impact Analysis, also known as cost-revenue analysis, is used to estimate the costs and revenues of a proposed development on a local government.
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| What is another name for fiscal impact analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | 1969
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| show | An Environmental Assessment is required to determine whether there is a significant environmental impact.
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| show | EIS are for federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. If the environmental assessment determines that there is a significant impact, then an environmental impact statement is required.
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| show | Scoping is often the first contact between proponents of a proposal and the public. A scoping meeting introduces both sides of an issue and engages interested parties.
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| Are capital budgets the first year of a capitial improvements program? | show 🗑
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| What does Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems focus on? | show 🗑
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| show | Lease-purchase allows a government to "rent-to-own.”
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| show | The tax rate increases as income rises.
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| What is a proportional tax? | show 🗑
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| What is a regressive tax? | show 🗑
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| What is cost-benefit analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | a method for selecting among competing projects when resources are limited, was developed by the military.
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| show | PERT is a scheduling method that graphically illustrates the interrelationships of project tasks.
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| show | a tool to analyze a project. The analysis results in a "critical path” through the project tasks. Each project task has a known amount of time to complete and cannot be completed before the previous one is completed.
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