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Because Kittitas County is far smaller and less economically interlinked than is the <br />combined Kittitas-Yakima area (about 10%of the combined county population or <br />income),a yet smaller multiplier is appropriate.Accordingly,based upon a number of <br />studies that correlate multipliersto size of place,an earnings multiplier of 1.15 was <br />used for Kittitas County impacts in this horse park analysis.A multiplier of 2.48 was <br />used for the State measures.Another means of stating the jobs multiplier is in terms of <br />the number of jobs created per million dollars of direct expenditures.This jobs <br />multiplier takes into account both indirect and induced effects.In other horse park <br />studies these jobs multipliers range from 16 to 45 jobs created per million dollars of <br />direct expenditures.We have used 17 for the county componentand 20 for the state <br />component,both conservativefigures.Although the magnitude of these multipliersmay <br />appear to be very consentative,it must be remembered that Kittitas County is a very <br />small and unlinked economy. <br />Direct Impacts:Two categories of direct expenditures were input into the model:Direct <br />expendituresincurred in the operation of the horse park and the direct expenditures of <br />show participants and spectators.As for direct expenditures arising from operations of <br />the horse park,only a small percentage of these expenses will impact the local area, <br />due to the lack of local sourcing of many of these expenditures.As many of these <br />goods and services will be purchased within the State,however,a higher proportion of <br />expendituresshown on Line 1 of Table 8 are "margined"into direct expenditures for the <br />state-wide componentof the model.After considering availability of sources,48%of <br />total operating expenditureswere considered to be local and 90%were used in the <br />state'-wide component.As the 48%local expenditures are included in the state's 90%, <br />this means that 10%of direct expenditures went outside the state. <br />Direct expendituresof show participants and spectators was calculated from the <br />number of horses,based upon the following assumptions:3 persons per horse and <br />40