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Originally Posted by Crawford
The U.S. figures don't make sense, as you're comparing apples to oranges.
Use MSA or CSA, but you have to pick one. Cherrypicking based on what "feels right" is nonsensical.
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Using the CSA measurement for SF and LA (which the OP noted), is perfectly sensible though.
That's because the MSA methodology isn't infallible, and doesn't work well with polycentric metro areas. So we can rigidly apply a measurement that severely underestimates two of the nation's largest metro areas, or we can include a couple CSAs in the list. I think the second option makes a lot more sense.
Or are you going to to pretend that the SF metro area only has 4.5 million people and the San Jose metro area only has 1.8 million, and that cities like Vallejo and Santa Rosa are completely separate metros from the Bay Area?