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The RTP's latest figures on Franklin County offer small and misleading information regarding the county's growth and current ranking among other RTP member-counties. The RTP organization includes Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Moore, Orange, Person, Vance, Wake, and Warren counties.
My own review of the report, whose figures are touted by Franklin County Economic Develpment Commission director, Ronnie Goswick, shows that their sources for Franklin County data are: a subscription-based commercial real-estate data seller called "The Site to do Business" aka "STDBonline.com"; the NC State Budget & Management office (specific source info not provided); the NC Employment Security Commission datasets for "Calendar Years", "3rd Quarter Data" (undisclosed year), and "3rd Quarter 2008"; and the "2007 Economic Impact of Travel on North Carolina Counties"published by N.C. Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development.
Click here to see the RTP "State of the Research Triangle Region" report of May 21, 2009.
The report shows the following info regarding Franklin County. Source info is in ( ) after each bullet point:
Here's what the report DOESN'T say as well as some examples of the discrepancies found between the data I show in the employment data table on column one of this page and the RTP report:
Statewide, it is estimated that Franklin County ranks 27th in total growth among counties (Source: "2008 Provisional County Population Estimates - Ranked by Total Growth" published online by NC Office of State Budget & Management)
Franklin County had the 7th highest unemployment rate of the 13 counties in the RTP in both January and March of 2009
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