RE: Vanishing Latah County

[Steve Cooke <scooke@uidaho.edu>]

Dear Visionaries,
 Enclosed is a response to an inquiry I made about the accuracy of Latah 
County population numbers. Alan Porter is Idaho's "State Data Center Guy" 
in the Idaho Department of Commerce according to Priscilla Salant. I am not 
sure where this leaves us. Waiting for the 2000 census to clear up the 
mystery I guess.
Steve Cooke

-----Original Message-----
From:	Alan Porter [SMTP:aporter@idoc.state.id.us]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 20, 1999 4:25 PM
To:	scooke@uidaho.edu
Subject:	RE:

                      RE:                                          4/20/99
The Bureau of the Census population estimates for Latah County have been 
flat or declining since 1994.  There are some mixed signals with the data. 
 The estimated employed cvilian labor force for 1998 for Latah County has 
declined 4.8% since 1994.  On the other hand there has been relatively 
steady growth in residential housing units in the 1990s in the greater 
Moscow area.  I have not located enrollment data for the U of I, but if 
university is not increasing its enrollment level, that could explain the 
decline.  If the number of full-time students is actually increasing each 
year, then the population estimate is more suspect.  With the actual census 
beginning next April, we will eventually get to a much more accurate 
number.
Steve Cooke wrote:
>Alan
> Can you shed some light on the disappearing population of Latah county 
>over the last couple of years? Some don't believe it is so.
>Steve Cooke
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