Program on Applied Demographics

Warren A. Brown presented workshops on Migration: Concepts and Data, Changes to the Housing Stock: Loss of Housing Units, and County Population Projections: Review and Update at the New York State Data Center Affiliate meeting, West Point, NY.  May 2008.

Warren Brown, Cornell University, Robert Scardamalia, New York State Department of Economic Development. Using the American Community Survey (ACS) Multi-Year Estimates in State Programs: Empire Zones in Rockland County, NY.  December 2007. 22 pages.Focusing on "the use of American Community Survey results in legislative threshold based state programs", this report considers the implications of changed survey methodology with legislative language now in force. Although "this research attempts to evaluate the impact of ACS results on a specific economic development program in the State of New York... it should be viewed as an alert to state legislatures and congress to review existing statutes and reevaluate the appropriateness of their language in a world of American Community Survey data". With references, map, tables, charts.

Joseph J. Salvo, Population Division, New York City Department of City Planning; Warren A. Brown, Program on Applied Demographics, Cornell University. Population Estimates and the Needs of Local Governments. July 19, 2006. 11 pages.The authors advocate a multi-pronged approach for Census Bureau use in developing population estimates that are vital to local governments for assessing needs and developing policies and programs. They discuss the current methodology, detailing shortcomings in the current use of  "administrative records component of population change", and present alternative methods that would best serve the varying populations and situations of different communities. With bibliography, figures.

Warren Brown, Cornell University; William M. Ramage, Patrick Berkery, Thomas Corban and David Trzaskos, New York State Department of Labor; Cheryl Schaefer, Seneca County Department of Employment and Training. Labor Force Analysis for Seneca County: The Outlook for Jobs and Workers. February 1995, Revised March 1995, 86 pages.Although developed specifically for Seneca County, NY, this report demonstrates a human resource development strategy that any county or area can use. It explores the dynamics of how local labor markets work while recognizing the “unique qualities of a specific labor market area” whereby “decision makers can replace perception of their economic reality with a set of facts”. With tables, maps, figures, bibliography.

Warren A. Brown, David L. Brown, Thomas A. Hirschl. People, Jobs, and Income: A Demographic Perspective on Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan New York. Cornell University, July 1991, 35 pages.It does make a difference where you live in New York State. This monograph describes and compares how residential area differences affected people, jobs and incomes from 1980 to 1990. “The persistence of these differences indicates that economic opportunity is unevenly distributed in the state. Low incomes and high unemployment remain concentrated in nonmetropolitan … and upstate metropolitan counties.” With graphs, charts, glossary, bibliography, data sources.