Do you have a recommendation for how best to apply the employment ratios for the 2016 occupational matrices on study areas with multiple counties/independent cities? For example, one of my study areas includes Staunton City, Augusta County, and Waynesboro City in Virginia. Is there a regional weighting scheme that you suggest I use so that I am putting the most accurate adjusted values into the Employment Matrix?
Using Occupational Matrices with Multi-County Study Area
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Create an aggregated region employment adjustment value by:
- For each region included in the aggregated region, build an individual model.
- For each region, export employment by industry (this can be exported from the study area data).
- Apply each region's specific employment split by industry ratios to the region's employment by industry value.
- Sum W&S employment by industry across the regions.
- Sum proprietor employment by industry across the regions.
- For each industry, divide the W&S employment value by the industry's total employment (sum of the industry's W&S and proprietor employment).
- This is the aggregated region's W&S adjustment ratio.
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