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In the past, several public and private organizations have prepared population and demographic forecasts for the county or region as a whole, but no independent forecasts have been prepared for the Bend urban area:

■    the Oregon Department of Transportation (1993) — county population and employment forecasts through 2012;

■    the Portland State University Center for Population Research and Census (1993) — county population and age forecasts through 2010; and

■    the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis (OEA) — county population and employment forecasts through 2040 (1997) and county population forecasts from 2000 to 2040 (2004).

These forecasts were used by the city and county as guides in the coordination of county-wide population forecasts, and the preparation of the urban area population forecast in the plan adopted in 1998. The city coordinated with the planning and legal staff of the cities of Redmond and Sisters and Deschutes County through 2002 and 2004 to develop a final coordinated population forecast for the county and the cities from 2000 to 2025.