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| Uses available data (i.e. housing permits) to estimate future trends |
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| Also known as the ratio method - looks at current proportion at a given time and assumes it will remain constant in future |
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| Projection of population or employment that takes in account the mobility of people or workers from and to a place |
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| Statistical Process Control |
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| a densely settled territory that has at least 2,500 people but less than 50,000 |
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| Used to develop consensus between two or more groups in conflict through identifying common objectives |
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| successive rounds of argument and counter argument that work towards a consensus. |
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| Assumes portion of a sample's type will remain constant over time. |
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| change in elevation divided by distance |
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| Uses current population + natural survival rates and net migration to project future population. Done for men and women. |
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| Divides the economy into two types of activities - base (those that can be exported) and non-basic (those that are to serve local demands. Exporting industries make up a region's economic base |
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| square root of the variance |
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| population projection method that extrapolates out based on past trends. |
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| ideal slope for development |
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| data that has an ordered relationship with magnitude, such as temperature |
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| the typical or expected value of a data set - can be represented by mean, median, mode, etc |
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| Data values are ordered so inferences can be made about them - but there are no set intervals. Letter grades, or educational attainment would be examples. |
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| data classified into mutually exlusive groups without intrinsic order. Race and sex are examples |
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| gives a range for an unknown population parameter. Tells us how confidently we can assume or estimate is statistically significant |
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