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    alantsberg commented,

    I'm looking for deflators for 1990-1996 for: MF Construction Costs 60 Real Estate 440 Architects 449 Local Gov 526 Acq. Costs 447 Infrastructure 58 Business Support 465

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    pre-1997 impact

    I'm preparing an impact analysis of a program with data going back to 1991. However, pre-1997 impacts show output & GDP deflators of 0, making those years unusable. I could just roll those up as a ...

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    comparing infrastructure impacts

    Has IMPLAN prepared anything explaining the reasons for differences between various impact models? This question was spurred by this [url=http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2011/oct/26/stev...

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    alantsberg commented,

    it helps tremendously and even anticipated a follow on question. I guess I just write about the land sales in the narrative and keep it outside of the model.

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    alantsberg commented,

    that had been my approach earlier, but i thought that there might be a way to allocating those funds to "other property income" or some similar category.

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    land purchases / sales

    I'm looking at the impacts of affordable housing development and wondering how to treat the land purchase. ordinarily, land comprises about 9% of project development costs and is generally acquired...

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    Transportation equipment purchases

    I am modeling the impacts of a comprehensive transportation funding measure. Most of it is fairly straightforward: new roads and bridges, major maintenance and rehab projects, some rail work, and v...

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    development impact fees

    i'm doing an impact analysis on a ~$24M development project and unsure how to allocate about $1.5M of development impact fees. the funds are intended to be spent on various, unspecified capital pro...

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    alantsberg commented,

    Hi Dominique, I encourage you to stick with the defaults unless you've deconstructed the construction industry in IMPLAN or have worked with construction labor economics before. The overwhelming p...

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    alantsberg commented,

    don't forget to subtract. while i don't think it's a 1:1 relationship I think its fair to say that there MAY be reduced hotel revenues and the such.