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Public Resources
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| 33N Blog | ARC | Semi-regular topical postings on workforce-related issues; access to ARC dashboards and MAS survey data; repository for regional snapshots (at least 3 a year on economy and workforce) | GO |
| Census Data | U.S. Census Bureau | Leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy | GO |
| Census Flows Mapper | U.S. Census Bureau | Net, inbound, and outbound migration data by county | GO |
| Crime Data Explorer | FBI | Crime data for the nation are derived from Summary Reporting System (SRS) and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) reports voluntarily submitted to the FBI. | GO |
| Georgia Labor Market Explorer | Georgia Department of Labor | Through the Georgia Labor Market Explorer, the Georgia Department of Labor provides access to a complete set of data tools for workforce developers to better understand the labor market conditions in Georgia. The portal also includes resources for job seekers and employers. | GO |
| High School Graduate Outcomes Dashboard | Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) | This is a GOSA maintained dashboard that helps track where high school students go after high school graduation. | GO |
| International Companies Dashboard | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | Search for companies in Georgia with an international headquarters. Company listings can be queried by standard geographies (county, metro area, state, region) or by customized geographies (radius or drive time). | GO |
| IPEDS | National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) | Provides enrollment and graduate data for all post secondary educational institutions, including technical/community colleges and public and private 2 and 4 year colleges and universities | GO |
| Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation | The Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship offers in-depth measures, reports, and accompanying interactive data visualizations that present entrepreneurial trends in the United States. | GO |
| Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) | Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | The LAUS program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence | GO |
| MSA Comparison Tool | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | Compare metro areas across a variety of attributes. Perform ad hoc analysis and export selections as a table. Datasets are typically updated annually, with some expections. | GO |
| Neighborhood Nexus | ARC | Neighborhood Nexus makes hundreds of community indicators from dozens of sources freely available and easy to access on your own. Or engage our team on a project. Available for the Atlanta region. | GO |
| OnTheMap | U.S. Census Bureau | Tool to understand the labor shed and commute shed of a particular geography | GO |
| Prosperity Now Scorecard | Prosperity Now | The Prosperity Now Scorecard is a comprehensive resource for data on household financial health, racial economic inequality and policy recommendations to help put everyone in our country on a path to prosperity. It includes data on financial assets and income, businesses and jobs, homeownership and housing, health care, and education - at the city, county, metro, state, and national levels. | GO |
| Report Card | Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) | This is GOSA's annual report on Georgia's public schools, including demographics and graduation rates. | GO |
| Target Industry Studies | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | Take a deep dive into 17 of Georgia's target industries. This includes information on the industry's top employers, recent announcements, and workforce, available on the website or a PDF download. | GO |
| Traffic Analysis and Data Application (TADA!) | Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) | The Georgia Department of Transportation’s Traffic Analysis and Data Application (TADA!) website presents data collected from the Georgia Traffic Monitoring Program located on the public roads in Georgia. The Website uses a dynamic mapping interface to allow the User to access data from the map as well as in a variety of report, graph, and data export formats. | GO |
| Workforce Explorer | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | The tool provides up-to-date jobs data by industry and occupation from EMSI as well as company locations and information from Georgia Power’s industry database. The tool gives you the ability to search by county, metro area, Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) region, drive time, or radius. | GO |
| State Business Tax Climate Index | Tax Foundation | State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. | GO |
| Location Matters | Tax Foundation | Comparison of corporate tax costs in all 50 states, Location Matters calculates and analyzes the tax burdens of eight model firms: a corporate headquarters, a research and development facility, a technology center, a data center, a shared services center, a distribution center, a capital-intensive manufacturer, and a labor-intensive manufacturer. | GO |
| MSA Comparison Tool | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | Compare metro areas across a variety of attributes. Perform ad hoc analysis and export selections as a table. Datasets are typically updated annually, with some expections. | GO |
| Neighborhood Nexus | ARC | Neighborhood Nexus makes hundreds of community indicators from dozens of sources freely available and easy to access on your own. Or engage our team on a project. Available for the Atlanta region. | GO |
| OnTheMap | U.S. Census Bureau | Tool to understand the labor shed and commute shed of a particular geography | GO |
| Prosperity Now Scorecard | Prosperity Now | The Prosperity Now Scorecard is a comprehensive resource for data on household financial health, racial economic inequality and policy recommendations to help put everyone in our country on a path to prosperity. It includes data on financial assets and income, businesses and jobs, homeownership and housing, health care, and education - at the city, county, metro, state, and national levels. | GO |
| Report Card | Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) | This is GOSA's annual report on Georgia's public schools, including demographics and graduation rates. | GO |
| State Business Tax Climate Index | Tax Foundation | State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. | GO |
| Target Industry Studies | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | Take a deep dive into 17 of Georgia's target industries. This includes information on the industry's top employers, recent announcements, and workforce, available on the website or a PDF download. | GO |
| Traffic Analysis and Data Application (TADA!) | Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) | The Georgia Department of Transportation’s Traffic Analysis and Data Application (TADA!) website presents data collected from the Georgia Traffic Monitoring Program located on the public roads in Georgia. The Website uses a dynamic mapping interface to allow the User to access data from the map as well as in a variety of report, graph, and data export formats. | GO |
| Workforce Explorer | Georgia Power Community & Economic Development | The tool provides up-to-date jobs data by industry and occupation from EMSI as well as company locations and information from Georgia Power’s industry database. The tool gives you the ability to search by county, metro area, Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) region, drive time, or radius. | GO |
Subscriptions
Below is a list of our fellow partners and members who hold subscriptions to the listed product.
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| A to Z Data | Business Location, Resident Data, Business Networks | ARC | Specific business and resident locations by type/ characteristics; can create subsets for "new" businesses and residents; possible acquisition of a full business file (in 2019) |
| ArcGIS StoryMaps | Mapping, Storytelling | ARC, MAC, GPC, GDEcD | ArcGIS StoryMaps has everything you need to create remarkable stories that give your maps meaning through text, vidoes, and images. |
| Burning Glass | Labor Supply, Labor Demand | ARC, MAC, GPC | Burning Glass provides regional analysis and a snap shot view on skills and occupations through a one-stop shop. Data is available at the county and MSA level on workforce demographics by age, race, gender; etc. and can show number of workers by education for industries. It enables cross tabulations on demographic indicators such as race and age. It enables us to look at hard to fill occupations and do supply demand comparisons.We can see postings for major companies across the country or in a particular geography which enables competitor benchmarking. |
| Business Wise | Business Location | GPC, MAC, GDEcD | Specific business locations by industry with employment figures for businesses in Georgia |
| CoStar | Real Estate | GPC | As the largest commercial real estate information and analytics provider, we take pride in empowering industry professionals with the most compressive data to make decisions with confidence. |
| D&B Hoovers | Business Location | GPC, GDEcD | Specific business locations by industry with employment figures for businesses across the U.S. as well as public employers |
| EMSI | Labor Supply, Labor Demand, Demographics/Education | GPC | EMSI provides labor market data for industries and occupations at every geography level. Additionally, EMSI allows users to pull demographics, job postings, educational data, and profile data. |
| ERI (Economic Research Institute) | Wage Survey Data | GPC | ERI compiles the most robust salary survey data, cost of living, and executive compensation available with current market data. |
| ESRI Community/Business Analyst | Demographics, Economics | ARC, GPC, GDEcD | Customized (spatial and variable) reports and infographics for current year demographics with short-term projections for some variables as well as other ACS variables |
| fDi Markets | Cross Border Investment | GDEcD | British company that tracks direct investment across country and U.S. state borders |
| Gazelle | Business Location | GDEcD | Directory of companies across the globe, scrapes websites to provide/update information, uses AI to predict likelihood of upcoming expansiions |
| IBISWorld | Industry Supply Chain, Industry Overview | GPC | IBISWorld provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide. Our in-house analysts leverage economic, demographic and market data, then add analytical and forward-looking insight |
| IHS Markit | Economic Data, Demographics | GPC | Historical and projected demographic and economic data as well as high level economic overviews |
| IMPLAN | Economic Impact Model | GPC | IMPLAN uses economic multipliers for a specific industry to assess economic impact in a geography. |
| Infogroup | Business Location | ARC | Access to Historical Data via Web Interface; Access to limited-variable comprehensive listing via export from ESRI Business Analyst Desktop; MUCH more available from this company and relatively high-quality point data |
| JobsEQ | Labor Supply, Labor Demand, Demographics/Education | GDEcD, ARC, MAC | JobsEQ is Software as a Service (SaaS) that gives you 24-hour online access to our labor market data. Designed and developed with data governance as the priority, our economists and data scientists ensure that our tools provide credible data. JobsEQ helps site selectors and economic developers identify unique workforce characteristics within their communities and provide quality data to clients by describing current industry and demographic trends, and targeted occupation and labor market information. JobsEQ can deliver data-driven empirical evidence that a region’s workforce has the skills they need, and uses charts, tables, and maps to help your audience visualize the talent pipeline. |
| LOCI | Fiscal Impact Model | EI2, GPC | LOCI™ is the nationally recognized local-government fiscal impact tool originally developed at Georgia Institute of Technology. Now owned and supported by the Economic Impact Group, it was completely redesigned in 2013. LOCI™ is licensed by economic development agencies/departments, chambers, development authorities, and local governments throughout the United States. |
| MarkLines | Automotive Industry | GDEcD | Japanese company that provides indepth information about automotive industry |
| Moody's Cost of Doing Business | Business Index | GPC | Moody's annual report on the Cost of Doing Business by metro area and state |
| Neighborhood Scout | Housing, Crime, Demographics | GPC | NeighborhoodScout is a website and online database of U.S. neighborhood analytics. |
| OAG | Direct Flights | GDEcD, GPC | Up-to-date flight information; answers "how many non-stop flights between Atlanta and....anywhere in the world" |
| PitchBook | Venture Capital | GPC, MAC | PitchBook Data, Inc. is a SaaS company that delivers data, research and technology covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions. etc. |
| Placer.ai | Location Intelligence | GPC | Understand the performance of any retail location. See foot traffic & cannibalization data. Placer.ai is the industry leader in accurate, reliable, and compliant location analytics. |
| PolicyMap | Demographics, Economics | ARC | What started as a simple mapping tool for a lay audience has grown into a state-of-the-art data and analytics engine. Our 50,000 indicators come from hundreds of sources, including our own exclusive data, and we serve hundreds of thousands of users in government, healthcare, universities, nonprofits, libraries, and more. PolicyMap users run the gamut from non-GIS professionals to data-literate practitioners and researchers. |
| R.S. Means | Construction Costs Index | GDEcD, GPC | Index that compares cost of construction materials and cost of installation between metro areas across the U.S. |
| REMI | Economic Impact Model, Supply Chain, Demographics | ARC | Regional forecasting model |
| Social Explorer | Demographics | ARC | We’ve combined demographic data with innovative technology to ensure Social Explorer has everything you need on one convenient platform. Whether you are a researcher, educator, student, urban planner, and beyond - we provide tools which professionals need to succeed. Access, analyze, and visualize data on our easy-to-use platform all while uncovering new in-depth insights. |
| State Tax Handbook | U.S. State Taxes | GDEcD | Reports tax rates and regulations for all U.S. states |
| Woods & Poole | Demographics, Economics | ARC, GPC | Historical (1969-recent) and projected (to 2050) population data down to county level |