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Originally Posted by deja vu
Apparently, the number-crunchers at Bloomberg failed to consider that the defined Kalamazoo-Portage MSA area used to include Van Buren County, but sometime between 2015 - 2019, Van Buren County was removed from the MSA (by the American Community Survey definition - which Bloomberg used for this report). So they were comparing between two disparate population areas, giving them a number that falsely indicated a population decline of 21% between 2015 and 2019 when there was really a 2% population increase.
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Wow, that's really bad data analysis. The first thing you do after compiling data is check for outliers that might be errors. A 21% population loss in four years is completely unheard of (maybe only New Orleans after Katrina?) and should have been a red flag.