Tech Lab: Demographics PowerPoint

Objective: Utilize secondary data to understand a market.

As you consider opportunities in starting a new business, you might want to research the neighborhood. There are plenty of resources you can use to analyze the demographics of a specific town.

Situation

You’re going to pick a region that you want to study.

Go to:  https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm








PowerPoint:

  • Slide #1 Name of city
  • Topic #2 List Some Characteristics that you're going to focus on (Click on View Profile Table)
  • Topic #3 Focus on Geography Series (Click on View a Data Visualization)
  • Topic #4 Any other information you find on this page
  • Conclusion: What types of businesses would you open in this town? (opinion)

You have a couple days to do this, today collect data and tomorrow prepare your PowerPoint

When done hand it in via Dropbox

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