August 23, 2007

Community Economic Development HotReport Released

The Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport provides community and business leaders speedy access to information tailored to economic development decision-making. It is a free, easy to use portal to instantly obtain detailed information for local and regional areas on a wide variety of topics from a multitude of sources.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau collaboratively designed the CED HotReport with local and regional experts to help communities and businesses plan for economic expansions and contractions using the best available information. For a complete list of measures and sources, see CED Measures (PDF - 72 KB).

The CED HotReport utilizes software developed by the Census Bureau known as TheDataWeb, DataFerrett and ReportWriter to retrieve data live from the original source whether within or outside of the Census Bureau and display it in maps, graphs and tables on interactive web pages. Comments and problems should be sent to did.local.employment.dynamics@census.gov.

Don't Miss the New American Community Survey Home Page!

Be sure to see the new American Community Survey (ACS) home page. In particular, see the "Highlights" section to read about exciting new 2006 data products and to find out what's different about 2006. On the web site you can sign up for ACS alerts which provide timely ACS news delivered by email, find key contact numbers, and read about what's coming in future years for the ACS.

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