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Understanding Adolescence 1: A Time of Change
Adolescents are young people who straddle the fence between childhood and adulthood. They have one foot secured in childhood and one foot moving into the world of adulthood. This publication, the first in a three-part series, explores the biological changes that occur during adolescence.
Department:
Agricultural & Extension Education
Catalog Number:
UI356
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Understanding Adolescence 2: Searching for Themselves
Adolescents are young people who straddle the fence between childhood and adulthood. They have one foot secured in childhood and one foot moving into the world of adulthood. This publication, the second in a three-part series, explores the major questions adolescents face as they search for themselves.
Department:
Agricultural & Extension Education
Catalog Number:
UI357
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Understanding Adolescence 3: The Tasks
Adolescents are young people who straddle the fence between childhood and adulthood. They have one foot secured in childhood and one foot moving into the world of adulthood. This publication, the third in a three-part series, explores the developmental tasks adolescents must accomplish as they mature.
Department:
Agricultural & Extension Education
Catalog Number:
UI358
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community, Costs and Revenues of Residential Development: A Workbook for Local Officials and Citizens
The impact of residential development on public services often is of major interest to local government and school district officials, and to local residents. By bringing new residents into the community, residential development can affect the demand for public schools, road construction and maintenance, police, and other public services. This workbook will help you conduct an economic analysis of a specific proposed residential development in your own community. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA339
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 1. Develop a "Snapshot" of Important Local Economic Indicators
The third publication in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series explains how to develop a "snapshot," or basic overview, of important economic indicators through charts and tables. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA375
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 2. Chart the Historical Performance of Key Economic Indicators
The third booklet in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series, this publication explains how to use trend analysis to identify new opportunities and "shocks" to important local indicators, raise or alleviate concerns, and identify growth opportunities. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA376
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 3. Use Location Quotients to Identify Local Strengths, Opportunities, and Industry Clusters
This 8-page publication describes using the location quotient, which helps identify those local industries that are producing more than is needed for local use and selling outside the region and those that are not meeting local needs and are a source of consumption leakage. This is the next step, following snapshot and trend analysis, in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA377
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 4. Shift-Share Analysis Helps Identify Local Growth Engines
This booklet is the fourth tool in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series. It explains how shift-share analysis can be used to overcome the challenge of separating the role of local and national effects on current regional employment trends. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA378
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 5. A Pennsylvania Internet Resource for Industry Employment and Occupation Projections
Tool 5 in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series focuses on the Center for Workforce Information and Analysis (CWIA) Web site as an on-line tool for addressing questions about future employment growth such as "What are the expected growth industries and occupations in your local economy?" Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA379
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 6. Qualitative Analysis Can Provide Unique Insights into Local Economic Performance
This final publication in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series explains how practitioners may use qualitative analysis to tap into local expertise in order to obtain information on the local economy that does not appear in official statistics. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA380
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Unemployment Data to Better Understand Your Economy: Read Me First! An Introduction to the Industry and Employment Classification System
This booklet--the second in the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series--explains the industrial classification system, which is a basic framework for categorizing establishments and serves as the basis for regional economic analysis. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA374
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Understanding Economic Change in Your Community: Using Unemployment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Introduction
This introduction to the Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy series gives an overview of using this analysis by defining the local economy, discussing potential economic indicators, and explaining how to use this information. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA373
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Understanding Pricing Objectives and Strategies: For the Value-Added Ag Producer
Choosing a pricing objective and associated strategy is an important function of the business owner and an integral part of the business plan or planning process. This 8-page publication describes the many pricing objectives and strategies, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, that business owners may use.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA441
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Understanding the Homestead and Farmstead Exclusions
In November 1997, Pennsylvania voters approved a change in the Commonwealth constitution to allow a method of real property tax relief, called a homestead exclusion, to be implemented in Pennsylvania. This eight-page publication covers homestead and farmstead exclusions, what they do, how they can be implemented in a community, and how property owners would apply to receive exclusions for their properties. It does not address local tax reform issues, except where they may relate to the exclusions.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA325
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Understanding Tree Planting in Construction-Damaged Soils
This 12-page publication describes made soils, soil texture, how to explore soil texture, soil structure, soil horizons and profiles, compaction, amending damaged soils, among other topics related to planting trees in areas such as parking lots.
Department:
School of Forest Resources
Catalog Number:
UH187
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