Economic Base
Analysis: Instructions
In addition to the files available from the BEA’s website, there are two other informational sites that you should look at:
- “Getting Started”—A RIMS II Help file that provides some basic information about the RIMS II model
- “RIMS II Viewer”—A RIMS II Help file that provides specific instructions and information about the RIMS II Viewer (the program that runs the data).
Once you are comfortable with the instructions, you will need
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Viewer—This is
the spreadsheet program that runs the data. The data that you have is for the
7-county Twin Cities Metro area (this is the Met Council boundaries, not the
Census boundaries—the counties of
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