Because of large acreages, sparse populations, and distinct sociopolitical dynamics, many rural communities are beginning to assemble their own sets of economic indicators to fit unique policy agendas. This review summarizes over 30 years of practical efforts from six regions that created economic development reports. Reports cover 60% of the nonmetro counties in the United States. Over half the reports were issued in the last 5 years. To understand distinctions between scholarly efforts and how communities leverage publicly available data sets toward policy objectives, the authors compare the rural, regional economic development reports assembled through community partnerships with indicators recommended in rural wealth creation literature. The authors identify a gap in scholarship and practice with implications for how practitioners and researchers conceptualize the creation of wealth in rural areas and conclude with best-practice approaches to co-creating rural economic indicator reports, especially where data can be tailored precisely to rural areas.

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农村社区的社会经济和环境指标：弥合学术和实践差距

由于土地面积大、人口稀少和不同的社会政治动态，许多农村社区开始组建自己的经济指标集以适应独特的政策议程。这篇综述总结了 6 个地区 30 多年来创建经济发展报告的实际努力。报告涵盖了美国 60% 的非地铁县。超过一半的报告是在过去 5 年发布的。为了了解学术努力与社区如何利用公开数据集实现政策目标之间的区别，作者将通过社区伙伴关系收集的农村、区域经济发展报告与农村财富创造文献中推荐的指标进行了比较。