The CEI has completed research for the public and private sectors. We have public sector clients as small as a fire district, and as large as the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The research we do with and for the public sector will typically make use of our strengths in the use of geographic information systems, economic statistics, and econometrics. Our current major projects are the Kansas City Community Development Initiative project and the National Institutes of Health Environmental Factors Obesity Project  Our major public sector projects in the past include GIS-based survey s of the housing conditions on over  100,000 parcels in several cities on both sides of the state line of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Many of the results of those surveys are viewable on our Internet map server: CityScope. For examples of other work, see the web pages on Projects and Map Archive.

 

The research that we conduct for the private sector is usually focused on the ability of the CEI to summarize and/or organize large data sets, as well as our expertise in the area of GIS and economic statistics. Our client list in the private sector ranges from small firms to a large automobile manufacturer.