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Scorecard Design

How Sightline Institute created the Cascadia Scorecard and came up with the seven indicators.

In design, the Cascadia Scorecard--Sightline Institute's gauge of progress for the Northwest--is simple. It is seven indicators of high-level trends that are shaping the future of the Northwest. Its creation, however, was complex. Sightline selected the indicators from a list of nearly 1,000 candidates during three years of research. Find out more through the links below.

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Cascadia Scorecard 2007 Citations


Sources and citations for Cascadia Scorecard 2007 (and the Scorecard project in general).
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The Cascadia Scorecard Design


The details and methodology on how Sightline created the project to track seven key trends for the Northwest.
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What's Wrong With the GDP?


Why gross domestic product and other financial indicators don't measure what matters to the region and what to do about it.
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