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Geography 350: Week 4

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/350/01F/week4.html)

Week 4: Structure and Structural Change: Transformation of Work, Jobs, Employment, and Careers. [Use of Location Quotients and Shift and Share Analysis];

• Please check the "350 Membership List" as to the status of your assignments (exercises) and your quizzes. Please let me know of any incorrect entry or misunderstanding.

• Recommended Reading:
  A Regional Economic Vitality Agenda Washington Research Council: Special Report, October 19, 2001. In the months since The Boeing Company announced that Seattle would no longer be home to its corporate headquarters, the region's business climate has come under intense scrutiny. As the national and state economies slowed over the summer, concern here mounted. The governor appointed a Competitiveness Council to address statewide policy issues. The events of September 11, the announced layoff of up to 30,000 Boeing employees, and the certainty of recession have added a sense of urgency to the discussion.

  Last spring, the Economic Development Councils (EDCs) of Seattle-King County, Tacoma-Pierce County, Snohomish County and Thurston County united to examine issues affecting the competitive position of businesses in the Central Puget Sound region. Each of the EDCs represents a partnership between business and the public sector. They work together to retain and expand wealth-creating industry in the region, attract new business investment, and assure that the region remains a good place to do business.....

• Migration Analysis - finish!

• Location Quotient Exercise for Thursday
  • The SIC system is being replaced by the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
    • 1997 NAICS Matched to 1987 SIC Manufacturing, part (NAICS 336-339)
  • County Business Patterns County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. The series is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets. Government agencies use the data for administration and planning.
    • County, State, MSA, ZIP Code, or U.S. Database on a NAICS Basis (1998 and 1999)
    • County, State, ZIP Code, or U.S. Database on an SIC Basis (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997)
  • Occupational Classification System
  • Enterprise Statistics [as different from establishment oriented statistics]

• Localization and Specialization
  1. Localization vs. Dispersion [Coefficient of Localization/Concentration]
  2. Specialization vs. Diversification [Coefficient of Specialization] [ Table from Hoover]

• Shift & Share Analysis -- Introduction

• Once more: Here are some guides to HTML and Webpage construction:
  • First Steps toward HTML and all that
  • UNIX / HTML Tasks
  • Your First HTML
  • Krumme's Electronic Survival Guide

• Shift and Share Analysis -- continued.
  • Shift and Share Analysis -- Hoover Readings
    • Different Components of Shift and Share Analysis (Graph, Hoover's example from Pennsylvania)

  • Shift and Share Analysis Krumme's Example
    • Introduction of Shift and Share Exercise for next week.

• Readings for next week!