The Center for Economic Development Economic Studies Program can help analyze the fiscal impact of developments in your community. Center staff has experience analyzing the fiscal impact of commercial and industrial development, but is continuing to study impacts of residential development, as well. The staff of the Economic Studies Program at the Center for Economic Development is experienced in constructing, administering, and tabulating mail and small phone surveys throughout California. An important thing to remember about surveys is that a survey should not be administered if the data the researcher wishes to collect can be collected or reliably estimated using other means, which are often less costly than administering a survey. Frequently, ESP receives requests to administer surveys by clients with whom ESP shows a way to collect adequate information without the cost and time involved in a survey.
Survey data is tricky.
Improperly worded questions lead to misleading or sometimes irrelevant data. ESP can assist your organization with the construction of surveys in order to minimize the occurrence of invalid data. The purpose of ESP is to analyze the local economy in Northern California, manage projects that involve economic and data analysis, and to keep a database of economic and statistical information for Northern California. Counties in the region include Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, and Yuba. The region also includes part of the Sacramento Urban Area.