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       FSH 1909.17 - ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS HANDBOOK

                  CHAPTER 30 - SOCIAL ANALYSIS

                            Contents


30.1     Authority
30.2     Objectives
30.4     Responsibility
30.5     Definitions
30.6     Role of Social Impact Analysis in Environmental 
         Analysis

31       CONDUCT SCOPING
31.1     Initiate Social Impact Analysis During Scoping
31.2     Consider Social Conditions in Scoping
31.3     Plan the Analysis
31.4     Identify Agency-Community Linkages
31.41    Determine the Area of Influence
31.42    Delineate Subareas
31.5     Consider Social Analysis Documentation
31.51    Social and Economic Overview
31.52    Other Social Analysis Reference Documents
31.6     Identify Special Concerns
31.7     Develop Criteria
31.8     Anticipate Data Needs

32       CONDUCT INDEPTH SOCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS

33       SELECT VARIABLES
33.1     Select Measurable Variables
33.2     Consider a Wide Range of Variables
33.21    Lifestyles
33.22    Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values
33.23    Social Organization
33.24    Population Characteristics
33.25    Land-Use Patterns
33.26    Civil Rights
33.3     Select Key Variables
33.4     Apply Selection Criteria

34       COLLECT AND INTERPRET DATA
34.1     Gather Social Data
34.11    Statistics
34.12    Written Materials
34.13    Observations
34.14    Respondent Contacts
34.2     Review Public Participation Data
34.3     Compile and Verify Data
34.4     Interpret Data
34.41    Minimize Bias
34.42    Consider All Affected People
34.43    Establish Time Frames
34.5     Organize Data
34.51    Use Appropriate Graphics

35       ESTIMATE EFFECTS
35.1     Focus on Agency-Induced Changes
35.2     Identify Other Sources of Change
35.3     Consider Resource Interrelationships
35.4     Estimate Socioeconomic Effects
35.41    Use of Economic Models
35.42    Population Analysis
35.43    Infrastructure Impacts
35.44    Fiscal Impacts
35.5     Estimate Sociocultural Effects
35.6     Identify Effects on Civil Rights
35.7     Consider Direct, Indirect, and Cumulative Effects
35.8     Provide Effective Description of Effects
35.9     Identify Mitigation

36       EVALUATE ALTERNATIVES
36.1     Develop Social Criteria for Evaluating Alternatives
36.2     Determine Significance of Effects
36.3     Compare Alternatives

37       DOCUMENT, IMPLEMENT, AND MONITOR
37.1     Document Findings
37.2     Implement the Decision
37.21    Monitor Implementation

38       TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES APPENDIX
38.1     The Social and Economic Overview
38.2     Sources of Social Data
38.3     Projecting Social Effects
38.4     Sample Matrices and Narratives of Social Effects
38.5     References