Anyone interested in exploring economic, demographic and other data about California and its communities – yours truly, for example – has had to work at it because there’s been no central repository.
One must mine data from federal agencies such as the Census Bureau or the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from state agencies such as the Employment Development Department, the Department of Education or the Department of Finance, or from private and academic data banks.
But very often these disparate sources use incompatible base lines – such as differing definitions of the state’s many regions – that make oranges-to-oranges comparisons difficult, if not impossible.
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