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<br />002916 <br /> <br />20 WRSA Employment . <br />The reason why employment data were not inclnded for the <br />Water Resources Regions and Subareas is explained on Page <br />III-7. Data for the counties and therefore for the WRSA's is <br />not available for years since 1960 and the data available for <br />preparing estimates for more recent years could only be <br />utilized at the economic area level as explained in the report. <br /> <br />< <br /> <br />3. Gross Regional Product <br />The OBE position in regard to gross regional product is <br />explained on Page III-2. The fact that some states require <br />individual firms to report an area breakdown of their manu- <br />facturing activity does not mean that they can make a break- <br />down of their profits on a conceptually sound basis. Value <br />added is subject to the same deficiencies as gross regIonal <br />product. <br /> <br /> <br />Value added data would be a useful measure of the general <br />magnitude of regional manufacturing activity but it is available <br />for so few geographic areas that it cannot be used universally. <br />Earnings is a more useful measure because it is an element <br />of the consistent set of data comprising total personal income. <br /> <br />I <br />t$;J>'\ <br />~f.i <br />~:i!:-:.r[) <br />;";0;;"'<,. <br />....,:iffl:... <br /> <br />~~i <br />~n <br />?J..ii<~. , <br />~~..., <br />~.4lf&.;' <br />...@W,. <br />,"'..,........., <br />~f*.f;J,..-.... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />l~~;~{ <br />;~~;~.~~. <br />a,.~~~~t;J~i~~~'1~1[~~1t~~:d <br /> <br />4. WRSA Service Industry Detail <br />The service industry detail was not included for WRSA'.s <br />but is included for Economic Areas. It was believed that anyone <br />using that degree of industrial detail should be working at Economic <br />Area leveL We are considering the inclusion of the WRSA tables <br />of the completed report. <br /> <br />5. Sex/Age Data <br />Data by sex, age, income level and other socio-economic <br />characteristics of the projected population are not available. <br />We hope to be able to add age and sex detail in a future revision. <br /> <br />6. Migration <br />Inmigration and Outmigration is not specified in the projections. <br />The OBERS methodology is designed to explain migration but a <br />closed population projection (no migration) is needed to make <br />explicit the implicit migration. We hope to be able to make such <br />a calculation but all the necessary data is not yet available. <br /> <br />12 <br />