The last official census in the United States of America was carried out in 2010, when the population was calculated as 2,915,918, making Arkansas the 32nd largest state in the US. When the official Census estimates were released for 2015, Arkansas' total had grown by just over 60,000 people to 2,978,204.
As part of their support for continuity planning, the board and senior management should assign knowledgeable personnel and allocate sufficient financial resources to properly implement an enterprise-wide BCP.
Before beginning a program evaluation, in-depth research will be performed by the evaluation staff assigned, and the staff and the program management will usually coordinate to prepare a work plan. A work plan is written to identify the standards to be used in a particular program evaluation and the methods intended to be used to test those standards. The standards chosen depend on the overriding purpose of the program evaluation.