Implementation Plan for a Socioeconomic Monitoring Program in the National Park System

From 2014 to 2017, the National Park Service (NPS) Social Science Program (SSP) worked with RSG via a contract to develop and conduct pilot implementation of an in-park Socioeconomic Monitoring (SEM) program for the National Park System. This report describes the results of the pilot SEM program and presents an implementation plan for a long-term SEM program. The NPS SEM implementation plan includes specifications and rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimates for a Base Model and information about potential methodological enhancements to the Base Model.