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Systemic Route: Assessment Various Contextual Assessment Processes Contextual Assessment involves engaging in various assessment processes to determine the current and future reality for the context. First, is observation of the context to see the emerging changes and transitions in the context. Yogi Berra was right when he said something to the effect that you can see a lot by looking. Driving and walking the congregation’s context in groups of three, and then debriefing the experience, can reveal many characteristics of the context. Second, are interviews with community social agents who are aware of the changes in demographics in the context that have not yet begun to be reported in statistical studies. Who are organizations who notice early the changes in the demographics of a contextual setting? Real estate owners and agents; Official reports from these organizations will not make it into published reports for use by demographic and psychographic information distribution channels until one to three years after significant trends have begun. Third, is the securing of sophisticated demographic and psychographic reports for the context developed by government agencies, research and education institutions, and demographic distribution organizations. These should be seen as a third channel in priority because they will lag behind emerging trends, and because they provide so much information that key leverage trends are difficult to determine. Such reports, where available, valid, relevant, and current may be used to document emerging trends. However, often these reports still have a basis in the government census figures that often are distorted, and less valid with each succeeding year following the initial research and report.
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