DATA TOOLS

 

2006-07 Virginia Tech Graduate Statistics

 

 

VTC Economic Impact of Travel
This site provides tourisme economic impact estimates including expenditures, payroll, employment, tax collections, and tax collections by locality, tax rates, and other useful economic impact of travel data.

Virginia Tourism Corporation
The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) works to generate incresed visitor expenditures, tax revenues, and employement by supporting, maintaining, and expanding the Commonwealth's domestic and international travel market. Through its national and international marketing programs, the VTC researches and targets specific, highly profitable audience segments in those geographic markets offering the highest potential of travel to Virginia. VTC distributes the "Virginia Is for Lovers Travel Guide" and other publications designed for specific niche travel markets to potential visitors.

Have you ever wondered what the economic impact of tourism is on your community? The VTC recently announced that locality specific traveler spending estimates for 2004 and 2003 are available on their website. The VTC, in coordination with the Travel Industry Association (TIA), prepared estimates of travelers' expenditures, travel-related employment, payroll and state and local tax receipts for each of the 134 counties and cities throughout the Commonwealth. To research the economic impact profile for your community visit the following VTC website: http://www.vatc.org/research.htm

Economic Impact

Virginia Allies Impact Assessment Information
This sites describes and provides links to economic impact analysis tools including IMPLAN RIMS II multipliers, REMI Policy Insight model, and the Federal Reserve Fiscal Impact Tool.

Industry and Occupational

RESolutions
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership's long-anticipated RESolutions site integrates very current state and federal data on industry, occupations, and higher education resources. The data is organized at the region level, based on Virginia Community College Districts. Its most fascinating feature is a "suitability tool." This allows economic developers to enter basic data on prospective employers and receive an estimate on the ability of their region's existing workforce to meet the needs of those employers.

The Virginia Small Manufacturing Assistance Program (VSMAP), funded through former Governor Warner's Virginia Works Program, is a partnership involving Virginia Tech's Center for High Performance Manufacturing, Business Technology Center and Office of Economic Development. VSMAP assists small manufacturers in rural and distressed parts of the state with technical and business problems through integrating technology and new business practices to improve performance.

The Location Quotient Calculator
This tool on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website creates, on demand, tables of private sector employment data, by industry, as measured by the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The calculator allows the ready comparison of relative employment levels in the United States, states, counties, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

The Industry Focus Tool
This addition to the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics web site generates lists of the top 3-digit NAICS industries or 2-digit NAICS sectors for your area and your workforce. You can focus on a particular sector or industry to see where it ranks among other industries and then drill down to look at characteristics of those who work in that industry. The website offers easy-to-customize maps of geo-coded data on commuter and labor sheds. These can be further supplemented by a selection of the most recently available reports on industry and occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Demographics

Commonwealth Data Point
The Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts has just unveiled Commonwealth Data Point. This new website provides "one-stop shopping" for state and local information on government expenditures, revenues, and a number of demographic topics. Navigating from one very simple and colorful menu, users are just a few clicks away from multi-year data on everything from per capita income for Cumberland County, the number of drivers licenses issued in Accomack County, to the enrollment at the University of Mary Washington. And a bonus---all of this data can be easily exported to excel sheets.

Fannie Mae Dataplace
For general demographic and housing information Fannie Mae's Dataplace is perhaps the simplest website out there. It allows you to construct and export fin-grained maps that integrate data primarily from the US Census. While the graphic capacities on the Council on Virginia's Future recently released Virginia Performs website are comparable, their site includes both census data and much more timely state data, a major advantage over Dataplace.

 

For more information on how Virginia Tech can help to improve the performance of your organization, contact:

Virginia Tech
Office of Economic Development
702 University City Blvd. (Mail Code 0373)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone (540) 231-5278
Fax (540) 231-8850
E-mail econdev@vt.edu