Create Comparison Report
The Create Comparison Report allows you to create comparison reports using your sites. Comparison Reports include a set of popular categories provided to aid you in creating useful reports. These popular categories include population, households, income, and housing as well as customizable reports. Options also include comparing your sites to a benchmark and geographies.
Click the Get Reports tab and click Create Comparison Reports.
The Create Comparison Reports pane opens with the Comparison Report Setup dialog box. By using the following steps, you can create your comparison reports.
Choose the sites you want to compare from the site panel above.
The sites you have selected, by clicking the check box of the site in the site panel, appear in the Selected Sites list in step 1. As a default, the first site in the site panel is automatically selected.
The following options help you tailor your comparison report for these selected sites.
Selected geographies to compare to your sites.
This second optional step allows you to compare the selected sites against the respective geographies. Selecting a geography by choosing the ZIP Code, County, State, or Country with the drop-down lists, will add the site to the comparison graphs and table in step 3. The geographies available in each drop-down list are based on the sites you select in step 1.
This step allevaites the creation of geography sites for comparison purposes. If you want to compare sites to a geography that is not automatically available in the drop-down lists in step 2, you can create a geography site under Select Location, using Select Geographies, and select it for comparison in step 1.
Each drop-down list is populated based on the sites you have selected. For example, for a point based site, the ZIP Code drop-down list will include the ZIP Code where the point based site lies. For a hand drawn polygon, all of the ZIP Codes that the polygon touches will be added to the ZIP Code drop-down list.
Select a site or geography to use as a benchmark.
This third optional step allows you to select a site, geography, or summary statistic to benchmark for comparison and allows you to see how the other selected sites and geographies compare to the benchmark values. The sites available for selection as a benchmark are the same as those selected in step 1. The geographies are the same as those available in the step 2. In addition, you can select the average or median values calculated from all of the selected sites in step 1 to serve as a benchmark. This is useful if you do not have a benchmark site but still want to see which sites selected in step 1 are above or below average relative to each other.
View graphs and tables for popular variables:
You can choose from Population, Households, Income, and Housing, or you can customize your own comparison report.
Click one of the buttons (Population, Households, Income, or Housing) to view the results of your Comparison Report setup. The Comparison Report appears containing the results of your selection from the steps in the previous page.
The appearance of the results will vary depending on your selection; however, the viewing options are similar for Population, Households, Income, and Housing.
The tabs allow you to see the results of the other options. You can select the view using the toggle for graph view or table view. Graphs view is the default.
Graphs View
The Graphs View offers selections different from Table View.
Sites appear on the X-axis and the values appear on the Y-axis. The arrow below the site name allows you to select the different mile rings, which are shown in the respective graph.
Note: The Households tab does not include this capability.
If a benchmark site has been selected, it appears first on the graph and is indicated as the Benchmark.
You can also select the data to view using the toggle for 2009 or 2014.
The default is 2009.
The variables drop-down list provides pre-selected variables from which you can choose.
Note: The Households tab provides a Years drop-down list which provides pre-selected years from which you can choose.
You can return to the Comparison Report Setup page anytime by clicking Back to Comparison Report Setup.
Click Print to print the report.
Click Save to save the report as a jpg, png, or gif.
Table View
Table View presents the comparison data in a tabular view and provides options for manipulating the table.
You can select the layout for the variables to appear in columns or rows.
Click Print to print the report.
Click Export to export the table to an Excel file.
Custom Comparison Reports
You can create custom comparison reports to rerun at any time. These reports can be used to compare metrics from variables you select and save for future analysis. Once saved, the reports are available in My Lists for easy retrieval.
- From the Comparison Report Setup dialog box, click the Customize button in step 4.
Or from the Comparison Report screen within the population, households, income or housing, screens, click the Customize tab. - In Available Variables, on the left, click on the plus sign to expand the options on the list.
- Click the check box for the variables you want in the customized report.
The Customize Variables dialog box appears.
These variables are the same set of variables that appear in the Choose Variable drop-down list in Create Color-Coded Map.
The checked variables appear under Selected Variables in the right column.
Continue until you have added all of the variables you want to include in the report.
To clear the Selected Variables, click Clear all.
To save lists
Once you have selected the variables for your list, you can save them.
Click Save.
The Save Variable List appears.
Type the name in the List Name text box and click Save.
The saved lists appear in My Lists.
My Lists
You can quickly access saved variables using the My Lists dialog box. My Lists contains the variables that you have saved along with the Popular Variables List that is automatically provided by ESRI. To create lists, see To save lists.
Click My Lists and click on the list you want to use. This selected list will be populated in the Available Variables section.
Search
You can also search for variables using search in the Available Variables section.
Type the variable name in the search variables text box and click Go.
The results appear under Available Variables. Click the check box for the variables you want in the customized report. The variables appear under Selected Variables in the right column.
To clear the Search
To clear the search, click Clear search. This appears only after you've done a search.
Click Clear all to clear the Selected variables.
View Report
Once you have selected the variables for your custom comparison report, you can click View Table or View Graph to view the results in the respective table.