Phillip Gover
In this oral presentation CICD will demonstrate Native Economic Trends – the Center for Indian Country Development’s newest data tool for better understanding tribal economies and communities. Using a variety of public data sources, we created a tool that tracks over 70 economic and demographic indicators for hundreds of tribal geographies going all the back to 1990. The presentation time will be used to introduce the tool, talk through an example of how data sovereignty considerations impact its design and offer an example of how to use the tool to collect useful econometric data about tribal economies. In addition to NET, we will share information about the Center’s other public data tools focused on helping tribes and the public access better data about the condition and size of Indian Country’s economy.