Re: Vanishing Latah County

["John and Laurie Danahy" <JDANAHY@turbonet.com>]

Interesting.
a recent study by the school district suggested that the city population is
down about 1000 people since last year.  A report from the chamber seems to
support this as the chamber apparently has seen a decline in sales of about
8%
John
John and Laurie Danahy
jdanahy@turbonet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Cooke <scooke@uidaho.edu>
To: Vision2020 Listserver (E-mail) <vision2020@moscow.com>; Priscilla Salant
(E-mail) <psalant@moscow.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 8:26 AM
Subject: RE: Vanishing Latah County


>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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