IMPLAN Pro: Creating an Industry Change Activity and Modifying the Event Year

This article covers the creation and analysis of the most basic Industry Activity, including information on building Activities with a single event and with multiple events, the use of Level, and the analysis of one or more Activities in an impact. Finally, we introduce the Event Options menu and show how changing the Event Year properties alter impact results.

Please note that for all these examples, the Default Event Year is set to 2013 and the results are viewed in 2013 dollars.

CREATING AN INDUSTRY CHANGE ACTIVITY:

Create an Industry Change Activity to examine the effect of a $25MM order of Andersen Windows.

1. Create A New Activity entitled Andersen Windows.
   1. Click New Activity at the top of the Setup Activities page. In the New Activity screen, name the Activity "Andersen Windows" and leave Level at 1.00. Notice that Industry Change is the only available Activity type in the upper portion of the screen.
   2. Click Save to close the screen. The Activity name and Level will appear in the upper portion of the main screen.
2. Click New Event to create an Event for the Andersen Windows Activity.
   1. The lower half of the Setup Activities screen is for building Events. When you click New Event, an Event record will appear displaying the first Sector code available in the Study Area.
   2. Click on the Sector 1 Oilseeds label and type in 139. Sector 139 Wood windows and door manufacturing should appear in the Event field name.
3. Hit tab to move to the Industry Sales field. Type in 25,000,000.
4. Click Next to move to the Analyze Scenarios screen.
   1. The Next button is located in the lower right hand corner of the Manage Activities and Events window. You may also notice that Analyze Scenarios has activated in the Tasks menu. You can also use this to navigate to the Impact Analysis screen.
   2. Note that if we had more than one Event we needed to examine in this Activity, we would create additional Events before clicking Next.
5. If this is the first Scenario being created for this model, a pop-up window will appear prompting you to name the Scenario. Call it "Windows". Leave Level at 1.00. If this is not the first Scenario (usually the case), click New Scenario and name the Scenario "Windows".
6. Click on the Andersen Windows Activity in the Available Activity(s) window, and hit Select to move the Activity to the Selected Activities window.
7. Click Analyze Single Region.
8. After the Scenario has processed, a pop-up window will appear asking if you would like to review the Scenario Results. Click OK to view the Scenario results. Your results should appear as below. If they do not, ensure that Event Year and Viewing Year are both set to 2013.

Build an Industry Activity for 100 Business Trips Associated to the Andersen Windows Activity.

1. Return to the Setup Activities window by clicking on Setup Activities in the Tasks bar.
2. Create A New Activity entitled "Business Trip".
   1. Click New Activity and name the Activity. Set Level to 100 and Save.
   2. The Activity name and Level of our new Activity will appear in the list of Activities in the upper portion of the screen.
3. In the Events portion of the screen create 4 new Events. Click New Event 4 times to create 4 Events.
4. Assign the Events to the appropriate Sectors for our business trip.
   1. Click into the Sector field of each Event and assign each Event an appropriate Sector.
      1. 501 Full-service restaurants,
      2. 502 Limited-service restaurants,
      3. 442 Automotive equipment rental and leasing,
      4. 499 Hotels and motels, including casino hotels.
   2. If we did not know what Sector number best represented our Event, we could use the Sector Search in the IMPLAN Software.
5. Assign a value to each Event.
   1. Click into the Industry Sales field and enter in the amount spent on each business trip in that Sector. 501-$120.00, 502-$130.00, 442-$350.00, 499-$400.00.
   2. In sum, $1000.00 is spent on a trip. We are using one Activity to describe the trip spending and 4 individual Events to describe spending in different sectors. 
6. Click Next to move to the Analyze Scenarios screen. 
7. Create a New Scenario by clicking the New Scenario button. Name it "Andersen with Trips" and leave Level at 1.00. Place both the"Andersen Windows" Activity and the "Business Trip" Activity into the Selected Scenarios screen.
8. Analyze for a single region
9. View Results. Notice that we are now looking at results on two different tabs. In Detail Results, we have selected View By: Output and sorted the Sectors for Direct Effect.

Change the Event Year.

Events in the preceding examples were presumed to take place in 2013. Suppose that the transactions (that is, the $25 MM order and the $1000 spent on each of 100 business trips) take place in 2016. How can we modify the Events to reflect these differences?

1. Return to the Setup Activities page, by clicking Setup Activities in the Tasks bar.
2. Create A New Activity titled "Andersen Windows 2016".
   1. Click New Activity at the top of the Setup Activities page. In the New Activity screen, name the Activity "Andersen Windows 2016" and leave Level at 1.00.
   2. Click Save to close the screen. The Activity name and Level will appear in the upper portion of the main screen. 
3. Click New Event to create an Event for the Andersen Windows Activity.
4. Under Event Options, select Show and then Event Year. Event Options is on the right-hand side of the Events toolbar.
5. Under Event Options, select Edit Event Properties>Event Year>2016. If there were more than one Event in this Activity, we would use the Change All functions demonstrated below with the
   "Business Trip 2016" Activity.
6. Click on the Sector 1 Oilseeds label and type in 139. Sector 139 Wood windows and door manufacturing should appear in the Event field name.
7. Hit tab to move to the Industry Sales field. Type in 25,000,000.
8. Create a New Activity titled "Business Trip 2016".
   1. Click New Activity and name the Activity. Set Level to 100 and Save.
   2. The Activity name and Level of our new Activity will appear in the list of Activities in the upper portion of the screen.
9. In the Events portion of the screen create 4 new events. Click New Event 4 times to create four Events.
10. Under Event Options, select Change All>Event Year>2016. This will change all the Events to the same year (2016).
11. Assign the Events to the appropriate Sectors for our business trip.
    1. Click into the Sector field of each Event and assign each Event an appropriate Sector.
       1. 501 Full-service restaurants,
       2. 502 Limited-service restaurants,
       3. 442 Automotive equipment rental and leasing,
       4. 499 Hotels and motels, including casino hotels.
    2. If we did not know what Sector number best represented our Event, we could use the Sector Search in the IMPLAN Software.
12. Assign a value to each Event.
    1. Click into the Industry Sales field and enter in the amount spent on each business trip in that Sector. 501-$120.00, 502-$130.00, 442-$350.00, 499-$400.00.
    2. In sum, $1000.00 is spent on a trip. We are using one Activity to describe the trip spending and 4 individual Events to describe spending in different sectors.
13. Create a New Scenario. Name the Scenario "2016" and leave the Level at 1.00. Include both the "Andersen Windows" and "Business Trip" Activities and Analyze.
14. View Results: (Even though we have changed the Event Year, we are still viewing results in 2013 because we did not change the default Event Year in User Preferences)