Comparative analysis of far and other methods

[Gary Hart]
We haven’t done any of those things yet, but we do have a proposal in to ORHP now to do demographies of these levels, and to take NCFC’s definition, 6 people per square mile, the FAR methodology and the RUCAs and cross-tabulate them and see what you get, what matches and what doesn’t match.

[John Cromartie]
Most previous definitions are county-based, so while I do think a comparison would be useful, I’m afraid that the results will mostly be showing frontier areas in counties that are not designated as frontier at the county level. I think it is a very valuable exercise to compare this definition to others to see if you can detect any systematic biases in this version, especially if there are sub-county definitions out there.