Data Research and Reports

This report provides a gap and void analysis for business opportunites in Downtown Morgantown compared to downtown businesses of college towns in the same region. The study was initiated at the request of Morgantown’s Economic Vitality Committee, which br

The Institute for Policy Research and Public Affairs at West Virginia University (WVU) completed a study of the quality and usability of West Virginia's IDEA data. The topic and question for the study concerned whether IDEA data were organized and...

This report examines temporal trends and spatial variation in independent educational plans (IEPs) documented in IDEA data in West Virginia. The West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) delivers the IDEA data as a set of cross-tabulations...

This study examines service and provider availability in the area served by The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation. A key difficulty in ascertaining which services are available pertains to services provided to county residents...