INDUSTRY FIELD GUIDE
Economic development program milestones and outcome data for AI
An economic development program can report planned activity and later verify a different outcome measure.
NAICS 926110 · Administration of General Economic Programs
An economic development program can report planned activity and later verify a different outcome measure. EDA’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy resources describe strategy development and evaluation. An agency can build an original exercise that distinguishes activity, milestone and outcome definitions. EDA Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy resources
Create a fictional grant with a target for workshops held and a separate measure for organizations served. Give the quarterly report an event count and a revised organization denominator. Ask which goal can be assessed and which needs more evidence. Score measure, period and source independently.
Use invented participants and numbers or explicitly cleared public reports. Exclude unpublished applications, applicant details, business plans and nonpublic award deliberations.
Describe a fictional economic program reporting example
Original Fiund exercise
Events held and organizations served are different program measures
An imaginary development grant uses fictional targets and aggregates. No applicant, business plan, actual award or funding decision is involved.
| Record | Source | What it records |
|---|---|---|
| ED1 | Practice grant target | Quarter Q goal: hold 4 workshops and serve 20 distinct organizations. Measures are separate. |
| ED2 | Quarter Q report | 4 workshops held; 24 attendance instances. No distinct-organization list or count supplied. |
| ED3 | Authorized reporting note | Attendance instances may repeat organizations. Eligible-population denominator revised from 30 to 25; no change to the served-organization numerator. |
Question for the model
Which target can be directly assessed, and do 24 attendance instances or the revised denominator establish that 20 distinct organizations were served?
Show the reference answer and checks
ED2 directly supports four workshops held, matching that separate ED1 activity target. Its 24 attendance instances can include repeats under ED3, so they do not establish 20 distinct organizations served. The eligible-population denominator revision does not supply that missing numerator. Report the met workshop count and unresolved distinct-organization measure without converting activity or attendance into a verified outcome.
- Treating attendance instances as unique organizations.
- Using a denominator correction to infer an unreported outcome numerator.
Fields to preserve
- Measure definition and unit
- Separates events, attendances and distinct organizations.
- Quarter and target
- Defines the comparison period.
- Numerator and denominator provenance
- Makes a revised population distinct from measured reach.
Test another case
Supply an independently reviewed count of 18 distinct organizations. Require the model to report the workshop target met and organization target below its stated threshold without conflating them.
Use made-up participants and totals. Exclude applications, business plans, applicant details and nonpublic award deliberations.
Discuss a contribution
Describe the sources you control, the task they could support and what has already been checked. Use the existing-data assessment for an archive or the collection brief for a new recording project. The contributor agreement defines Fiund’s licensing authority and compensation. A guide or fictional exercise does not establish an accepted collection or a sale.