WSP01521

• File Number: 8443.400
• Description: Narrows Unit Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/15/1974
• Author: US DOL BOR
• Title: Draft Social Assessment of the Proposed Narrows Unit and Alternatives Thereto
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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collected at various time intervals, standardized, and readily
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available). Moreover, they have been developed usually with

support of one or more scientific disciplines (e.g., economics,

medical research, biology). For this reason, for many areas

of community life, indicators of important social phenomena

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already exist. Thus, what has been lacking are not the data,

but rather a conceptual framework -- essentially social in

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character -- which draws upon and utilizes such information

to cast light upon social issues and policy questions. Given

a sound conceptual framework for social assessment, data be-

come information on social impacts of alternative public in-

vestment decisions.

As a part of this social assessment, for each of the

community areas selected, various secondary data were con-

sidered and where relevant, included in the assessment.

various types of data are included: descriptive statistics

(.e.g, employment rates); time series data (e.g., trends in

the economic base); educational data (e.g., on size of school

systems); and so forth.

However, there are other types of data which are called

for. These data differ from secondary data in two respects.

First, they must be tailored to questions pertaining to the

specific impacts of the alternatives. Second, they must be

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gathered locally. For these two reasons, they are not avail-

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able through secondary sources and meet the standard definition

of "primary data." However, before turning to the question of

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