Welcome to the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project
The growing interdependence of people, markets, and institutions across the Greater Philadelphia region requires that we see our future in regional terms. While social, economic, or environmental problems may be most immediately recognizable at the level of the community, their solutions usually require understanding them in the regional context. Those who work to improve communities must think regionally even while acting locally.
The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project, funded by the William Penn Foundation, aims to promote regional thinking about our most important challenges by illuminating conditions and trends in our nine county region (defined as the central cities of Philadelphia and Camden along with the Pennsylvania counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, and the New Jersey counties of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem). To promote regional thinking, MPIP maintains and updates a set of social, economic, and environmental indicators that protray the quality of life in the region's communities, offering analyses of these indicators in occasional web reports and an annual report. From 2003-2005, MPIP and Temple's Institute for Survey Research also conducted annual 1,000 random digit-dialing household surveys of perceptions of quality of life, permitting comparison of perceptions with actual conditions.
Currently, an important part of MPIP's work is its collaboration with a variety of regional Civic Partners. These are organizations, selected in consultation with the William Penn Foundation, which are actively seeking policy change. MPIP employs its data and analytical capabilities to provide them with research that supports their agendas.
We are dedicated to improving our services in terms of data acquisition and delivery. If you have suggestions or ideas relative to these areas, please share them by using the comments line at the bottom of each page.
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