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Arizona's Economy

Evidence Tier:TRUSTED

Expert-developed at a leading university

For:General Public & EnthusiastsIndustry Professionals

App Summary

Arizona's Economy allows users to access and analyze key economic data like employment, retail sales, and population for the state's counties and metro areas. The University of Arizona's Economic and Business Research Center created it as a mobile companion to its main data website, making complex information more portable. This tool lets residents, researchers, and business leaders track local trends and compare regional performance against state and national benchmarks from their smartphones.

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Detailed Description

Functionality & Mechanism

This mobile data platform, a companion to the EBRC's Arizona's Economy Online website, provides on-demand access to key state and local economic data. The application aggregates metrics like employment growth, retail sales, and population for Arizona, its counties, and metro areas. Its interface facilitates trend analysis by allowing users to compute percent changes and moving averages. A comparison tool also enables users to track local economic performance against state and national benchmarks and share visualizations.

Development & Context

  • The news coverage notes this app was developed as a mobile companion to the EBRC's existing Arizona's Economy Online website.
  • It was designed to place important economic metrics for Arizona and its sub-regions directly into users' hands.
  • The platform integrates a comparison tool for tracking how a specific city or county performs relative to Arizona and the U.S.

Intended Use & Scope

This tool is designed for professionals, researchers, and policymakers needing rapid access to Arizona-specific economic data for analysis and reporting. Its scope is focused on data visualization and trend computation for historical metrics. The information presented in the directory is based on the developer's public materials and news coverage, not peer-reviewed research.

Arizona's Economy

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