Yakima Valley Trends

Geographic Scope

County 

Issue Areas

Arts and Culture, Children & Youth, Civic Engagement, Demography, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Equity, Health & Wellbeing, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Use, Poverty, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Transportation

Description

Yakima Valley Trends seeks to improve local, private and public decision-making by providing relevant data in an easily navigable website. The data serve as neutral information for all parties involved in a local decision. More specifically, the goals are:

• To collect and share a broad spectrum of information for individual community members, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, businesses, business organizations, researchers, and the press.
• To track progress over time of various efforts toward a healthy, vibrant community.
• To measure the community’s progress spatially via benchmarks outside of the County.
• To enable analysis of these trends.

A set of principles informed the process for the selection of chosen indicators presented and include the following criteria:

• Important to large numbers of the community
• Based on valid measurements, as defined by good science and social science, with credible sources
  Understandable to the general public
• Defined to allow comparisons to Washington State, the U.S. or those in similar sized communities
  Available repeatedly over time to allow trend analysis
• Easily accessible

Framework

EWU Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis

Project URL

http://yakimavalleytrends.org/

Indicator Domains

People; Agriculture; Culture, Recreation, Tourism; Economic Vitality; Education; Environment; Equity, Inclusion; Health; Housing; Safety,Risky Behaviors; Transportation

Reporting Format

Online Reporting

Other Partners

Community Foundation

Project Contact:

Scott Richter
Eastern Washington University's (EWU) Institute (Institute) for Public Policy and Economic Analysis - Educational Organization
srichter20@ewu.edu