Temporary/construction jobs vs. Permanent jobs

Hi Mason, Thank you for your post. When conducting a Construction analyses and reporting the Employment result, especially with a Construction project, I advise caution. IMPLAN reports employment in terms of jobs or a head count, this is not a Full Time Equivalency (FTE). In addition, the Direct employment figure of 12.1 job would be temporary construction jobs. It is up to the analyst to decide when reporting employment if those jobs are permanent/temporary and supported and created. Given the nature of Construction, they are usually temporary and supported jobs. You are correct though that the Direct Employment figure is related to the Sector that was impacted. As regards splitting costs, the IMPLAN spending pattern for construction Sectors includes the majority of hard and soft costs as it represents the complete amount of investment into a building. So you if you go Explore> Social Accounts> Balance Sheet (Tab), and select View By: Industry Balance Sheet and the Commodity Demand tab. You will see that the construction Sectors purchase hard cost items like concrete and wood as well as soft cost items like architectural engineering and legal fees. The one place you would want to split is if there are any FFE's or large equipment purchases included in your Industry Sales value. These items, are outside of the spending pattern for a construction Sector and do need to be examined separately. If you have any large equipment or FFE we can certainly help you with those as well. Also there was a mention or hint of Analysis-by-Parts here. You can certainly use Analysis-by-Parts to customize your split of Intermediate Expenditures (goods and services budget) from Value Added (profits, taxes and labor payments) but the split applied in IMPLAN is regionally specific based on local Value Added ratios, so you do not need to feel compelled to do this. Likewise if you have the entire line-item budget you can certainly build this from scratch a series of Event lines, but without the entire budget, it is probably best to use the prefigured spending pattern. Additionally you can review the budget and if you determine there are items you want to delete from it because they are not relevant to your project, you can do this via Analysis-by-Parts as well. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. IMPLAN Support Team