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Economic Profile System (EPS)

Welcome to EPS, which allows users to produce detailed socioeconomic profiles automatically and efficiently at a variety of geographic scales.

There are 3 ways to get EPS profiles:

To run custom county aggregations, reports for specific communities, or access the raw data, install the EPS software (instructions below).
Click on the map below to download a finished PDF version of a county profile.
For custom analysis or tailored profiles, inquire directly with Headwaters Economics.

Sample sheets from an EPS profile.
Click here to run EPS software.

Download Finished Profiles - Click on the map to download and view finished EPS profiles in PDF format for each of the counties and states. To view a county or state profile, first pick a state on the map below or enter a county name here.

Alaska | Hawaii | United States

To Download and Install the Economic Profile System - With this option you can run custom aggregate profiles and community-level profiles. You will also have access to the raw data and the output will be in Excel format.

Warning about Excel 2007 - We strongly recommend, if possible, that finished EPS files be used in PDF by clicking on the above map. EPS is fully functional using Excel 2003. EPS programs will run utilizing Excel 2007 but major changes to the chart engine of Excel 2007 will cause numerous format and printing problems. We are working to resolve this issue. Excel 2007 also generates a warning message when saving an EPS file that can be ignored.

To run EPS and EPSC, you need to download and install 8 files. Each of these files are self-extracting zip files. Download the files and click on them to extract them onto your hard drive. Be sure to install all 8 files to the sub-directory c:\tmp.

Required File	Click on All 9 Links to Install	Last Revised	Size (zipped)
c:\tmp\eps\eps2008.xls	eps2008.exe	3/25/2009	2.1 MB
c:\tmp\eps\reis06.mdb	reis06.exe	4/30/2008	124 MB
c:\tmp\eps\bls08.mdb	bls08.exe	3/10/2009	24.7 MB
c:\tmp\eps\cbp05.mdb	cbp05.exe	12/4/2007	39.2 MB
c:\tmp\eps\estim02.mdb	estim02.exe	10/2/2006	4 MB
c:\tmp\eps\wages06.mdb	wages06.exe	5/1/2008	23.2 MB
c:\tmp\eps\migration07.mdb	migration07.exe	1/7/2009	1.6 MB
c:\tmp\epsc\epsc.xls	epsc.exe	10/6/2006	1 MB
c:\tmp\epsc\epscensus02.mdb	epscensus02.exe	10/2/2006	186 MB

Initial Setup Instructions:

EPS and EPSC require Office 2000 or XP, Windows 98 or newer, and at least 2 Gigs of free space on your hard drive.

To run EPS, double click on the eps2007.xls file; to run EPSC double click on the epsc.xls file.

You will have to set your Excel security setting to either low or medium to run EPS and EPSC. If you set the security to medium, you must "enable macros" when prompted.

Once EPS or EPSC is open, press the “Main Menu” button to launch the menu system. To get data for a new geogrpahy, press the "Create New Profile" button. Once the new data is pulled in, you will be prompted to do a "Save As" to store the profile.

If you want to create another profile, return to the “Main Menu” and press the "Create New Profile" button again.

Click here for more information about EPS, EPSC and what's new in the latest 2007 version.

Headwaters Economics
Mail: P.O. Box 7059, Bozeman MT 59771
Deliveries: 810 N. Wallace Avenue, Suite D, Bozeman MT 59715
Ray Rasker Ph.D. 406.570.7044 | Ben Alexander 406.599.7423 | Patty Gude 406.599.7425 | Chris Mehl 406.570.8937
Mark Haggerty 406.570.5626 | Julia Haggerty Ph.D. 406.600.1766 | Jeff van den Noort 406.599.1653

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