Choose one of the businesses that you have focused on in your interviews.
- Use census data from Social Explorer in the form of charts, tables, or maps (or some combination of the above) to describe the present and/or past social context around the business. Who lives there? Where do they come from? What do they do for a living? What is their lifestyle?
- See if you can come up with an explanation of the role that your business plays in relation to this context. Does it meet a local demand for goods or services? What (Hint: It might play no role at all.)
