This task allows you to compare multiple trade areas against one another to decipher how different or similar one location is over the next. You can easily measure the demographic characteristics of one area versus all other areas. The report shows statistical differences in raw number, percent, and index values.

The benchmarks can only be made on variables that exist in all trade areas being compared. Variables and trade areas can be shown in either rows or columns. When benchmarking all trade areas against a single trade area, the average or the median of all the trade areas can be calculated and used as the benchmark.

The result of this task is a ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BACore.TaskResultOutput object, which is compatible with ArcGIS Server's mapping APIs. The output report is specified as a single item of the array of ReportInfo objects.

System.Object
   ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BACore.Client.AbstractTask
      ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BACore.Client.BATask<TResult,TEventArgs>
         ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.BAOTask<TResult,TEventArgs>
            ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.Reports.BenchmarkReportTask

Target Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 family

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