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there is a lot of debate between using csa's vs. msa's for comparing metros which includes whole (partly) rural counties. but if i am understanding necta's correctly, they consider only bordering municipalities that are urban or suburban.
why isnt this criteria used nationally since it is more accurate ?
In some places they do. I'd say most try to incorporate the suburban areas. But it's inconsistent, so it sounds like another flawed comparison method.
UAs might be the best. But even they have huge flaws. The 1,000/sm cutoff is arbitrary...the results would be very different with 2,000/sm or 500/sm. Sometimes a mountain or wetland separates an area that's closely dependent on a central city so that can be missed. And there are weird cases like much of the city of Denver not being in its own UA (basically the airport).
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