Running comparison reports

A comparison report lets you generate a report to compare between two or five study areas at one time. In your comparison report, you can select multiple demographic, market, and income profiles to compare. The report generates an Excel file.

Note:

Comparison reports are only available when the country is set to USA.

The comparison report includes the following variables to create an in-depth analysis of your study areas:

• Population
• Households
• Families
• Average household size
• Owner occupied units
• Renter occupied units
• Median age
• Trends
• Household income
• Race and ethnicity

Steps:

1. On the Task Menu, click Run Comparison Reports.

   The Run Comparison Reports wizard opens.

2. Select the study area from the drop-down menu.

   The study area lets you narrow the list of available study areas on the table. Active study areas automatically appear in the table. However, you have the ability to run reports for inactive study areas as well. To show all saved study areas, select All Studies from the study area drop-down menu.

3. Select a study area using one of the following methods:
   • Drag a study area from the top table into the bottom table.
   • Double-click a row in the top table.
4. Select additional study areas using one of the following methods:
   • Drag a study area from the top table into the bottom table.
   • Double-click a row in the top table.
   Note:

   You can select up to five study areas for comparison.

   At any time, you can remove a selected study area from the table. Highlight the selected study area you want to remove and click Remove Selected.

   At least two study areas must be selected in order to submit a comparison report order.

5. Click Next.

   The Run Comparison Reports wizard proceeds to step 2. Here you will define the reports you want to generate.

   The default table view lists all available reports. You also have the ability to search reports by report groupings. You can do this by selecting the desired groupings from the drop-down menu.

6. Select a report using one of the following methods:
   • Drag a report from the top table into the bottom table.
   • Double-click a report in the top table.

   At any time, you can remove a selected report from the table. Highlight the selected report you want to remove and click Remove Selected.

   Selected reports are displayed on the Selected Reports table.

7. Click Next.
8. Select a logo for your report using one of the following methods:
   • Click to select an image in your library.
   • Click Browse, navigate to the desired image file, and click Open. Click Upload to upload the file.

   You can select an existing logo from the library or upload a new image. Supported image formats include *.png or *.jpg file types. The size dimension for report logos is limited to 250x250 pixels.

   An error message appears if the logo exceeds the size limit.

9. Click Next.
10. Enter a report subtitle (Optional).
11. Enter additional email recipients (Optional).
12. Select the notification option:
    • Check the Notify Me When Order is Ready checkbox to review an email notification when the order is available.
    • Uncheck the Notify Me When Order is Ready checkbox to decline an email notification when the order is available.
13. Click Run Order.

    A report confirmation appears at the bottom of the wizard.

14. Click Next.

    A confirmation message appears to let you know the report order was submitted successfully and provides additional workflows you can explore.

    Once a report is processed, a prompt will display in the application letting you know you can now access the report. Reports can be accessed in the Data Manager. See Managing previously run reports. You will also recieve email notification to the email address linked with your user account.

15. Click one of the following:

    Run More Reports	This option returns you to the start panel for the Run Reports wizard. See Running reports.
    Additional Tasks	This option exits the Edit Preferences wizard and launches the Task Menu for additional options.
    Return to Map	This option exits the Edit Preferences wizard and launches the Task Menu for additional options.