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Posted: Fri 6:51, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: As a particular example |
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data for sub-city areas like the wards. This means that when making the comparison in the linked piece, they were comparing the worst rate for any of the wards of DC with the average rate of other cities. As a particular example, Detroit had an unemployment rate in January of 20%. That's the average for the whole city--so it's worse in some parts and better in others. I don't know Detroit that well, but it seems likely that if you divided it up and looked at some of the poorer pieces,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the unemployment rate would be much higher than even in Ward 8. Without that kind of data for Detroit (and New York, and LA, and etc etc etc), knowing the breakdown of the different areas in DC just doesn't tell us anything about how DC is relative to other cities. To go even farther,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the city of Delano, CA (population 53,041) had an unemployment rate of 39.6% in January. Ward 8 has a population of around 73,000. So unless the Bloomberg writers were being very very particular when they said "comparable size",
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