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| According to, The Practice of Local Government Planning, what three steps does the plan making process include? | show 🗑
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| show | 1 Needs analysis, 2. ID results, determine long-term objectives, 3 SWOT, 4 involve stakeholders, 5 Dev and Eval Alternatives, 6 ID role of city, 7 Develop funding policy, 8 Evaluate performance
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| Is a strategic plan short or long term in focus? | show 🗑
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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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| Do Tribal Governments develop comprehensive plans? | show 🗑
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| show | A survey is a research method that allows one to collect data on a topic that cannot be directly observed, such as opinions on downtown retailing opportunities.
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| show | A cross-sectional survey gathers information about a population at a single point in time.
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| What is a longitudinal survey? | show 🗑
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| When should you use written surveys? What are the challenges associated with written surveys? | show 🗑
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| When is a group-administered survey appropriate? What are advantages? Disadvantages? | show 🗑
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| What is a drop-off survey? What are the advantages? Disadvantages? | show 🗑
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| What is an oral survey? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Participants selected randomly, can lead to probability testing.
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| What is a stratified sample? | show 🗑
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| Should thought be given to sampling type and number? | show 🗑
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| What scale does the US Geological Survey Use? | show 🗑
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| What are the three basic types of map projections? | show 🗑
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| show | Contour lines are lines of equal elevation. Contour intervals is the elevation difference between contour lines.
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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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| show | Megalopolis
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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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| show | his population estimation method uses the population at the time of the last census divided into five-year age groups and gender. A death rate is applied to each age group. New groups are created based on birth rates and net migration rates.
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| show | The Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook and its accompanying User Manual are the culmination of APA's seven-year Growing Smart project, an effort to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the U.S.
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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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| Which residential land use would have the highest average vehicle trips per unit? | show 🗑
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| show | 65%
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| Associated Home Builders of Greater East Bay v. City of Livermore dealt with what issues? | show 🗑
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| show | yes
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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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| show | Cost Revenue analysis takes into account anticipated revenues and expected expenditures both in capital and recurring sources
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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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| Who wrote The Intelligence of Democracy? | show 🗑
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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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| show | yes
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| What Federal Department is theNational Register of Historic Places found? | show 🗑
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| show | I. Surrounded by open space
II. Include housing, retail, and industry
III. Connected by railways
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| What is fiscal impact analysis? | show 🗑
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| What book written in 1961 critiques the practice of planning? | show 🗑
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| What is the most important element of a contract for consulting work? | show 🗑
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| The Housing Act of 1954 created what? | show 🗑
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| What planning issue did Berman v. Parker address? | show 🗑
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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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| Approximately how many wireless sites are in the United States as of 2005? | show 🗑
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| show | 1 year
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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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| What is the open space participatory method? | show 🗑
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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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| The annual energy consumption in the United States is: | show 🗑
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| show | Effluent
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| show | Public Transportation
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| Does the US Dept of Commerce use only one indicator to measure the direction of the economy? | show 🗑
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| show | Locally undesirable land use.
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| Who was Herbert Simon? | show 🗑
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| The Housing Act of which year called for slum clearance? | show 🗑
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| Who was Saul Alinsky? | show 🗑
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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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| show | In 1989, Calthorpe proposed the concept of the Pedestrian Pocket a mixed use development of up to 110 acres with a park at the center.
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| Which city was home to the first Council of Government? | show 🗑
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| show | ARS is instant polling software used in conjunction with a slide presentation.
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| show | Kevin Lynch
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| In what year did ASPO and AIP merge to become the APA? | show 🗑
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| What is Multiattribute Utility Analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is participatory rural appraisal? | show 🗑
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| What is cost effectiveness analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | The Golden case marked the first time in the U.S. that a town was legally approved to control its own growth
The correct answer is: Made development conditional based on the provision of services
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| What is the primary purpose of a fiscal impact analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is a null hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| show | 1956, Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota was the first indoor, climate-controlled regional mall.
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| Which city was the first to adopt a comprehensive plan? | show 🗑
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| What book did Ebenezer Howard write? | show 🗑
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| show | Advocacy planning brought planning into the public eye and assisted in recognizing the different needs of interest groups in the community.
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| What is an environmental assessment? | show 🗑
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| show | Takings
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| Who wrote Image of the City? | show 🗑
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| show | Shift share analysis looks at the change in the share of employment in an industry over time.
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| Were source of water, sewage disposal, and condominium status eliminated from the 2000 Census? | show 🗑
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| show | a ratio that compares a region to a larger reference region according to some characteristic or asset. A score lower than one means importing employment and greater than one means exporting employment
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| Clarence Perry's Neighborhood Unit Concept (1929) was published in what plan? | show 🗑
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| show | The six transects include natural, rural, sub-urban, general urban, urban center and urban core.
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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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| show | Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Bolpe: n 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens to Preserve Overton Park. This lead to a considerable increase in grassroots environmental organizing.
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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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| What is a plebiscite? | show 🗑
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| Which city had the first regional plan? | show 🗑
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| show | Bassett wrote the New York City Zoning Ordinance in 1916.
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| show | For the purposes of this test, unless otherwise specified, yes
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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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| show | a structured communication technique, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts. The experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds.
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| show | Design with Nature.
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| Who wrote Silent Spring in 1962? | show 🗑
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| show | Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of the gross floor area of a building to its ground area.
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| show | Descriptive Statistics describe the characteristics of a population.
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| What are inferential Statistics? | show 🗑
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| What is central tendency? | show 🗑
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| show | Mode is the most frequent number in a distribution. The modes of [1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7] are 3 and 7. There can be more than one mode for a data set.
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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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| show | Continuous Variables can have an infinite number of values, such as 1.1111.
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| What are dichotomous variables? | show 🗑
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| What is a hypothesis test? | show 🗑
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| show | The Null Hypothesis, shown as H0 is a statement that there are no differences. For example, a Null Hypothesis could be that Traffic Calming has no impact on traffic speed.
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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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| show | Standard Deviation is the square root of the variance.
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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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| What is a z-score? | show 🗑
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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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| show | An ANOVA is an analysis of variance. It studies the relationship between two variables, the first variable must be nominal and the second is interval.
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| What is a correlation? | show 🗑
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| What is the correlation coefficient? | show 🗑
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| What is regression? | show 🗑
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| What is the linear method of population projection and estimation? | show 🗑
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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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| What is the Distributed Housing Unit Method of population projection and estimation? | show 🗑
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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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| show | The location quotient is the ratio of an industry's share of local employment divided by its share of the nation (or other level of government). A location quotient of < 1 indicates an import econ. If the quotient is > 1 then the area is an export econ.
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| What is shift share analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is input-output analysis? | show 🗑
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| As defined in the US census what is an Urbanized area? | show 🗑
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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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| show | has a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people. This includes a central county and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration as measured by commuting.
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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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| What is the population range for a census tract? | show 🗑
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| show | Census Block is the smallest level at which the Census data is collected. There are typically 400 housing units per block.
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| show | Minor Civil Division (MCD) is a unit only used in 29 states and usually corresponds to a municipality. Census County Divisions are used in the 21 states that do not have MCD's.
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| show | Tribal Designated Statistical Area is a unit drawn by tribes that do not have a recognized land area. These are defined independently of the standard county based census deliniations.
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| show | Threshold Population is a term that is under a number of government programs to determine program eligibility.
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| show | 81%
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| What are the fastest growing states between 2000 - 2010? | show 🗑
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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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| show | 37.2
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| What years were baby boomers born? | show 🗑
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| show | 1965-74
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| What year were generation y or millenials born> | show 🗑
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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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| What year was the National Environmental Policy Act adopted? | show 🗑
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| show | An Environmental Assessment is required to determine whether there is a significant environmental impact.
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| What is an environmental impact statement? | show 🗑
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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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| show | yes
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| show | PPBS is focused on planning through accomplishing goals set by a department.
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| show | Lease-purchase allows a government to "rent-to-own.”
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| What is a progressive tax? | show 🗑
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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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| What is cost effectiveness analysis? | show 🗑
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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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