Describe either the local population, your hometown population or the population of an area you know well on as many of the following characteristics as you can: 

1. What is the stratification of the population?  (that is, classes based on income, status, & power)

2.  What is the current structure and organization of the potentially affected population? 

3.  Is it stable or changing? 

4.  What is the ethnic, racial, religious econ, soc groups, et al, & the distinctions among them?

5.  Are there ethnic, economic, or social group distinctions within it? 

4.  How are wealth, poverty, employment, and levels of income distributed through the population? 

5.  How are people employed? 

6.  How many and what kinds of people are unemployed, and in what kinds of activities (particularly those that may be affected by the action under review)? 

7.  Are there seasonal changes, or other kinds of influx and outflow? 

8.  What is the age & sex of the residents & visitors?

9.  What is the amount of immigration & the % of immigrants?

10.  What is the available human resources such as ed level, talents, skills, training & ed resources, etc.?

11.  What is the nature of each quality of population according to the various alternatives of the SIA project