Acorn is a proprietary large language model driven by AI technology to crawl regional economic development data sets, along with comparable communities’ programs and outcomes, to produce Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) planning that empowers community leaders with critical economic insights to make informed decisions, measure impact, and identify new opportunities.
Q1 2025 Taxonomy Chart

 

Name

Abbreviation

Publishing Agency

Data Source that Determines Update

Q3 2024 Release

Metropolitan Statistical Areas

MSA

Census Bureau

MSA Delineation Files

March 2020

Federal Information Processing Codes

FIPS

NIST

Usually QCEW

2015

North American Industry Classification System

NAICS

Census Bureau

QCEW

2022

Classification of Instructional Programs

CIP

NCES

IPEDS

2020

Standard Occupation Classification

SOC

ONS

LFS

2021

Occupational Information Network

ONET

ETA

ONET

28.2

 

 

Q2 2024 Data Set Chart


Name

Abbreviation

Source

Q3 2024 Release

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

QCEW

BLS

2023Q4

Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

OEWS

BLS

2023

National Ind/Occ Employment Matrix

NIOEM

BLS

2022-2032

Employment Projections Tables

EP

BLS

2022-2032

Consumer Expenditure Survey

CEX

BLS

2022

State Personal Income

SPI

BEA

2022

Local Area Personal Income

LPI

BEA

2022

Make & Use Tables

MUTs

BEA

2023

National Income & Product Accounts

NIPA

BEA

2024Q1

Gross Domestic Product by State

GSP

BEA

2023

American Community Survey

ACS

Census

2022

County Business Patterns

CBP

Census

2022

ZIP Code Business Patterns

ZBP

Census

N/A

Nonemployer Statistics

NES

Census

2021

Current Population Survey Tabulations

CPS

Census

2022

State and Local Finances (Census of Government)

COG

Census

2019

Population Estimates

POP

Census

2022

Origin-Destination Employment Statistics

LODES

Census

2020

Quarterly Workforce Indicators

QWI

Census

2024Q2

Railroad Retirement Board

RRB

RRB

2021

Occupational Information Network

ONET

US DOL/

ETA

28.2

Crime by County

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

2022

Completions

IPEDS

IPEDS

2023

Enrollments

IPEDS

IPEDS

2022

Birth/Mortality Data

CDC

Center for Disease Control

2021

Migration Data

Migration

Internal Revenue Service

2021

Cost of Living Data

COLI

C2ER

2023

Database USA

DBUSA

DBUSA

Mar 2023*