Profiling Rural America: A Guide to Data Sources and Analytical Techniques
介绍如何利用数据来源和分析技术构建地方经济概况，重点比较城乡经济差异，帮助政策制定者、企业和个人理解地方经济状况。
Evaluating the economic conditions of local economies is an important input to the decisions of policymakers, firms, and individuals. General impressions of the condition of national or state economies obtained from aggregate data often mask important substate differences in economic performance.\nState economic profiles are useful tools for presenting the dynamics of substate economic change. Because their economic conditions and environments can be very different, rural and urban areas are often compared in such profiles.\nThis report describes the major components of a complete economic profile, with special emphasis on rural-urban comparisons. A catalog of data sources and a discussion of their value and potential abuses is provided. Techniques for deriving and interpreting meaningful information from the data are also presented.