The Navajo economic-demographic model a method for forecasting and evaluating alternative Navajo economic futures Volume 1: A technial description of the model

In April 1975, the Four Corners Regional Commission extended a grant to the Navajo Tribe, through its Office of Program Development, to develop an increased planning and decision-making capability by producing the capacity of projecting the consequences of alternative Navajo economic futures. With this grant, the Tribe retained the Division of Technical Services of the Utah Office of the State Planning Coordinator who developed, in the form of the Navajo Economic- Demographic (NED) Model, a method of forecasting and evaluating the employment and population effects of those alternative futures. Some data and technical assistance were secured from the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business Research and the Arizona Office of Economic Planning and Development. Tribal staff work was supported by a planning grant from the Economic Development Administration.