Air Force Base
I am attempting to model the impact of an Air Force base in my region based exclusively on the the number of full-time employees working there. If I had the federal funding totals of the base, I know that the way to examine the impact would be to import the Federal Government Defense Industry Spending Pattern and change the activity level to the total federal funding level. However, is there a way I can run this scenario using employment as the basis for the impact rather than total funding?
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IMPLAN SupportHi Jimmy, You can certainly can go about this in a sort of back way, using Employment as proxy for Industry Sales in Sectors 439 and 440 as most bases usually have both types of federal Employment. In the unique incidences of these government payroll Sectors Value Added = Output (because government doesn't pay taxes or make profits, and these Sectors don't include Intermediate Expenditures spending patterns). You could then take this sales amount and go to the spending pattern for Federal Government Defense and see how much of total spending pattern coefficient is in these two Sectors (3439 and 3440)and then work backwards to determine what the total budgetary amount would be. However, because of GSA considerations, you may just want to consider the payroll impacts anyway. [url=https://www.google.com/url?q=http://implan.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_docman%26task%3Ddoc_download%26gid%3D201%26Itemid%3D60&sa=U&ei=HzsrU_uTHsS1kQfs9oCYDQ&ved=0CAcQFjAC&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFDubtSOtL6sY5LM4m9n1zS-0hvTg]This paper [/url]provides a good overall review of considering impacts on military bases. It is focused on the concept of base closures, but the same principles apply to active bases. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. IMPLAN Support Team0
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