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Census 2000 News Alert

by ed c

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Senate Funders Not Ready to Allocate Extra Money for Census The Senate Appropriations Committee has declined to grant the Administration's request for an additional $1.723 billion to implement its revised Census 2000 plan. At a committee meeting yesterday, the panel allocated only $2.789 billion for census operations in fiscal year 2000 (FY2000), which begins on October 1, instead of the $4.512 billion the Administration now says it needs to conduct the decennial count. In a report explaining the funding measure, the committee said the 2000 census is still "at risk of failure." Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, and the Judiciary, said he would schedule hearings to review the request for more census funds. The counterpart House subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY), has not announced its plans for considering the FY2000 funding bill. In his government-wide budget submitted to Congress last February, the President requested $2.789 billion for the census in FY2000. The original request was developed before a January Supreme Court ruling forced the Census Bureau to drop one proposed use of statistical sampling, in order to compile state population totals for congressional apportionment without sampling methods. The President sent a revised Census 2000 budget to Congress earlier this week, asking for $4.512 billion to conduct the census next year. The Census Bureau said much of the extra money is needed to pay for the added cost of visiting all households that do not mail back a census form. The Bureau estimates it will need 860,000 temporary workers during peak census operations. The follow-up operation is expected to take about 10 weeks, four more than originally planned. In its report, the Senate Appropriations Committee also "directed" the Census Bureau to count all American citizens living overseas in the 2000 census. However, House Census Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller (R-FL) said at a June 9 hearing of his panel that the Census Bureau should find a way to include overseas Americans in the census starting in 2010. In addition to reviewing a proposal to count Americans living abroad, the House subcommittee discussed proposals to change the way military personnel stationed in the U.S. and certain prisoners are counted. The Census 2000 Initiative will provide a more complete summary of the June 9 hearing next week. Special News Alert update: We have updated the Special News Alert on census jobs distributed on June 8, to reflect recent changes to the Census Bureau's operational plan. The updated version is posted on the home page of our Web site at <http://www.census2000.org>. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at terriann2k(a)aol.com. For copies of previous News Alerts and other information, visit ourWeb site www.census2000.org <http://www.census2000.org>. Please direct all requests to receive News Alerts and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census 2000 Initiative at Census2000(a)ccmc.org or 202/326-8700. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals.

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Census 2000 News Alert

by Ed Christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Administration Spells Out Need for Extra Census Funds As Senate Appropriators Meet to Consider Fiscal Year 2000 Request President Clinton has sent to Congress specific proposals to revise his original fiscal year 2000 (FY2000) budget request for the 2000 census and several other federal programs. In a written statement, the President said the Census Bureau needs $1.723 billion more than his original request of $2.78 billion next year to count the population without relying on statistical sampling. The President cited a January Supreme Court ruling that federal law bars such methods for purposes of congressional apportionment. The extra money brings the total FY2000 budget request for Census 2000 to $4.5 billion. The Senate appropriations committee is scheduled to consider the funding bill today. The bulk of the extra $1.7 billion is needed for non-response follow-up, when census enumerators visit households that don't mail back their census forms. In order to comply with the Supreme Court decision, enumerators must visit all 45 million households the Bureau estimates will not mail back a questionnaire. The increased field workload will cost an extra $1.45 billion. This amount includes money to hire more temporary workers and extend their training; a recheck of an estimated 7.6 million housing units reported as vacant, as well interviews to gather information missing from returned questionnaires; enhanced procedures for counting people who have no usual residence at soup kitchens and shelters; and a pre-census quality check of rural areas without city-style addresses. The additional funds also will cover more supplies, materials, telephones, and other infrastructure needs to support a larger workforce (+$234 million); keeping the four data processing centers open longer to accommodate the expanded field operation (+$102 million); additional advertising and promotion, including more materials for schools, nonprofit groups, and local governments (+$88 million); and several other new efforts to improve address lists and data collection. The Bureau says it will save $214 million by reducing the size of the post-census quality check survey (called the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation program) from 750,000 households under its original plan to 300,000 households. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), co-chair of the Congressional Census Caucus and the senior Democrat on the House census oversight panel, said the President's revised Census 2000 budget request represented a "true lose-lose proposition." Taxpayers must pay more, she said, "for a less accurate count." Coincidentally, the President also asked for additional FY2000 funds for several other programs covered under the same budget account that covers the Census Bureau. The $2.5 billion worth of changes in the Administration's total FY2000 budget request includes an extra $264 million for improved security at U.S. embassies overseas and $230 for the Immigration and Naturalization Service's detention and deportation program. The State Department and the Justice Department (which houses the INS) must compete for funds against other activities covered under the Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The Census Bureau is an agency of the Commerce Department. The President proposed to pay for the $2.5 billion he requested by accelerating a 1997 tax change affecting individuals with annual incomes over $150,000 and by slowing federal payments to the states for "welfare to work" programs. Census Monitoring Board news: The Presidential appointees of the Census Monitoring Board sent an interim report to Congress yesterday "that documents significant bipartisan support throughout the country for the Census Bureau's plan" to correct undercounts and overcounts using statistical sampling methods, according to a press release announcing the report. The three members who issued the document (there is one vacancy on the panel's Presidential side) compiled letters from state and local officials in support of the Bureau's plan to conduct a 300,000-household post-enumeration survey to account for people missed in the direct count. The report will be available on the Presidential members' Web site www.cmbp.gov <http://www.cmbp.gov> in the near future. Meanwhile, Kenneth Blackwell, the Board's Republican co-chair, said he would not step down from the Board despite his appointment as chairman of Steve Forbes's campaign for the presidency. In a June 3 letter, House Census Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller (R-FL) asked Mr. Blackwell to resign, saying he was concerned about "the appearance of incompatibility of the two roles." Calling Mr. Blackwell "a rising star in our party," Rep. Miller accused Democrats of "politiciz[ing] the census at every opportunity." He distinguished Mr. Blackwell's new campaign position from the appointment of the Board's former Democratic co-chair, Tony Coelho, as general chairman of Vice President Albert Gore's presidential campaign, since Mr. Coelho would be "running the [Gore campaign's] day-to-day operations." Mr. Coelho resigned from the Board last month. Rep. Miller said that his call for Mr. Blackwell's resignation "has more to do with politics than reality" because "Democrats will use [Mr. Blackwell's campaign position] as a political weapon to distract the public from the real problems with the 2000 census." In his reply of June 3, Mr. Blackwell said he "left politics at the door" in carrying out his Monitoring Board duties, and noted that the Board had issued a joint report to Congress last April. "[I]t would be counter-productive for me to abandon the process," Mr. Blackwell wrote. "I am uniquely positioned to address the principal problem that exists in the 2000 Census - counting real people where they actually live." Not satisfied with Mr. Blackwell's decision to remain on the Board, Rep. Carolyn Maloney wrote to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) this week, urging them to seek the co-chairman's resignation. Senator Lott appointed two of the Monitoring Board's eight members; Rep. Hastert's predecessor, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), also named two members. The President appointed four members and must now fill the vacancy left by Mr. Coelho's resignation. Upcoming news: The House Subcommittee on the Census held a hearing yesterday to review several proposals affecting the way prisoners, members of the armed forces, and Americans living overseas are counted in the census. Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-NY) advocated a "sense of the Congress" resolution in support of counting all Americans living overseas. The Census Bureau plans to count members of the armed forces, federal civilian employees, and their dependents stationed overseas at their "home of record," as it did in 1990, for purposes of congressional apportionment only. Subcommittee member Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) urged the Bureau to count military personnel stationed in the U.S. at their "home of record" (the place where the service member enlisted), as well, at least for apportionment purposes. The Bureau counts military personnel at the place where they usually live and sleep at the time of the census (called "usual place of residence"), a long-standing policy that determines where all persons are counted. Rep. Mark Green (R-WI) urged the subcommittee to consider his bill (H.R. 1632) to require that inmates serving their time in an out-of-state facility be counted as residents of the state that pays more than half the cost of their incarceration. The Census 2000 Initiative will provide a more complete summary of the proceedings next week. The Initiative also will report on a Justice Department memorandum concerning the effect of a provision in the 1996 immigration reform law on the confidentiality of citizenship or immigration data collected in the census. Prepared at the request of the Commerce Department's general counsel, the analysis concludes that a provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 does not override section 9(a) of the Census Act (title 13, United States Code), which protects individual census responses from all other government agencies, the courts, and private individuals. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at <terriann2k(a)aol.com>. For copies of previous News Alerts and other information, use our web site www.census2000.org <http://www.census2000.org>. Please direct all requests to receive News Alerts, and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census 2000 Initiative at <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> or 202/326-8700. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals.

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new documents online

by Ed Christopher

We now have two new documents online. The first is a PowerPoint presentation with embedded speaker notes. It discusses the status of CTPP 2000 planning efforts with a focus on the TAZ-UP process. The presentation was put together as a means of training folks interested in the CTPP and TAZ-UP process. It is a good overview for both technical staff and managers responsible for CTPP activities. It can be reached through the TRB Census Subcommittee's webpage or downloaded directly at http://members.xoom.com/berwyned/ctpp/ctpp0699.ppt (note: it is just under 0.5 megabytes.) Kudos to Elaine Murakami (FHWA) and Clara Reschovsky (Census) for the content and Kevin Cross (BTS) for the production as well as the CTPP Planning Group for its review efforts. The second document is the technical manual for the TAZ-UP software and process. It can also be found on the TAZ-UP software CD-ROM. The document is in PDF format and was prepared by Election Data Services, the consultant who designed the TAZ-UP software. The document can be found through the TRB Census Subcommittee s web site or downloaded directly from http://members.xoom.com/berwyned/ctpp/tazupdoc.pdf (note: it is 6.5 megabytes.) Both document are under the Subcommittees web site at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/ under the "Committee Notes and Articles" button. If you have any problems downloading these let me know. ed christopher berwyned(a)mcs.com 202-366-0412

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student section of www.census.gov

by Joshua Kim

Hello...I was thinking that the readers of this listserve would be interesed in the work that my undergrad. demography students did this semester to create a student section for www.census.gov. I am trying to interest the Bureau in actually creating a student section - a place where students utilize www.census.gov to learn demographic trends, concepts, etc. and create original work. Please let me know what you think... There are five teams - representing 5 different approaches: The portal site is: http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/final_project_refrence.html The individual sites for each team are: http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Psycos/finalportal.html http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/WVUSocial_Links/portalmain.htm http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Goodfellas/portal_final.htm http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Hart/frames.html http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/TD/portal_page.html Thanks.... Joshua Masnick Kim Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor West Virginia University - Department of Sociology and Anthropology Morgantown WV 26506-6326 316 Knapp Hall PO Box 6326 phone (304) 293-5801 ext. 1633 fax (304) 293-5994 e-mail: jkim4(a)wvu.edu http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/

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Summary levels of reporting for CTPP 2000

by Murakami, Elaine <FHWA>

Sam Granato wrote: I have a question regarding 2000 CTPP data for counties that go "unclaimed" by both MPO's and states regarding zone boundaries. Will data for those counties continue to be in the statewide CTPP at the same level of geography as in 1990 (by place over 2,500 for employment, by township and place over 2,500 for residence data)? Or would there be changes? Elaine's response: Our current plan is to have pretty much the same geographic levels as in 1990 CTPP, with the addition of something called "statewide TAZ". So, that means, For "state" level CTPP there will be State Metro Area County Place State TAZ: We are still (!) struggling with this geographic unit, because of the need to develop a way to provide equivalencies of urban TAZs (or census tracts) to statewide TAZs in the metropolitan portions of the states, and the possibility of some counties being composed of mostly urban TAZs and some statewide TAZs in outlying areas. For "urban" level CTPP there will be: Region MSA Urbanized Area Study Area County CBD TAZ OR Region-State-County-MCD-Place-Tract OR Region-State-County-MCD-Place-Tract-Block Group

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TIGER/Line 98 Counties to be re-done

by Murakami, Elaine <FHWA>

Below, please find a list of counties in TIGER/Line 98 which have errors which are currently being corrected by the Census Bureau. If you are planning to use any of these counties in your TAZ definition, please contact Jamie Rosenson or Valerie Murdock at the Census Bureau (emails listed below), to have them send you a replacement TIGER file. email: vmurdock(a)geo.census.gov jrosenson(a)geo.census.gov Alaska 02050 Bethel 02070 Dillingham 02150 Kodiak 02185 North Slope 02232 Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Arkansas 05007 Benton California 06003 Alpine 06013 Contra Costa Colorado 08001 Adams 08005 Arapahoe 08031 Denver Florida 12043 Glades Georgia 13083 Dade 13089 DeKalb Kentucky 21081 Grant 21191 Pendleton Maine 23005 Cumberland 23013 Knox Minnesota 27037 Dakota 27061 Itasca 27163 Washington Missouri 29019 Boone 29027 Callaway 29073 Gasconade Montana 30007 Broadwater 30031 Gallatin 30067 Park Nevada 32031 Washoe New Jersey 34011 Cumberland 34029 Ocean North Carolina (note: I think I have given all the NC info to CB already) 37057 Davidson 37059 Davie 37067 Forsyth 37081 Guilford 37097 Iredell 37169 Stokes 37197 Yadkin Ohio 39007 Ashtabula 39055 Geauga Oklahoma 40027 Cleveland Oregon 41043 Linn Pennsylvania 42077 Lehigh 42079 Luzerne 42095 Northampton 42131 Wyoming South Carolina 45047 Greenwood 45059 Laurens Texas 48185 Grimes 48261 Kenedy 48409 San Patricio Vermont 50021 Rutland Virginia 51013 Arlington 51031 Campbell 51153 Prince William 51520 Bristol 51650 Hampton 51700 Newport News 51830 Williamsburg Washington 53031 Jefferson Puerto Rico 72054 Florida

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Census 2000 News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Price Tag for 2000 Census Jumps $1.7 Billion President Names New Monitoring Board Co-Chair The Census Bureau estimates that it will need an extra $1.7 billion to conduct the census next year, bringing the total fiscal year 2000 (FY00) funding request for the decennial count to $4.5 billion. The Administration submitted a revised cost estimate for the 2000 census to Congress yesterday, fulfilling a requirement of the emergency supplemental spending bill signed into law by President Clinton on May 21. The emergency measure also included an additional $45 million for census preparations in the current fiscal year ending September 30. The Census Bureau says the extra funds are needed to comply with a January Supreme Court ruling that federal law prohibits the use of sampling methods to count the population for purposes of congressional apportionment. The Bureau originally planned to make direct contact with at least 90 percent of households in each census tract and estimate the remaining ten percent of households based on the information collected during door-to-door visits to other unresponsive homes in that tract. The revised plan, developed to comply with the Supreme Court decision, includes follow-up visits to all 45 million households the Bureau estimates will not mail back a questionnaire, increasing the field workload by 50 percent. The Bureau also plans to expand its advertising campaign and outreach activities to encourage a higher mail response, according to a written statement by Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt. In a letter to House and Senate appropriators, U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew said the expanded field operations (called "non-response follow-up") will take ten weeks, four weeks more than under the original census plan. Additional costs include hiring more local office staff and enumerators, increasing office space and equipment, and expanding data processing capabilities at the four data capture centers, Mr. Lew said. The Census Bureau now expects employment to peak at 860,000 during the census. The Administration expects to provide a detailed cost breakdown for the additional $1.7 billion after identifying proposed offsets in other federal spending. The ten-year cost of the original Census 2000 plan, which assumed follow-up visits to only 30 million households, was $4 billion. The new funding request brings the total ten-year cost of the census to about $5.7 billion. Congress must now find a way to provide a sharp funding increase for the 2000 census while reducing overall spending in the broader budget account that includes the Census Bureau by several billion dollars from current year (FY99) funding levels. Last week, Senate appropriators divided up discretionary funds among the 13 budget accounts. (Discretionary funds cover all federal spending that is not mandated by law, such as social security benefits and payments on the federal debt.) The 1997 balanced budget law set the total amount of discretionary spending available for FY00. The Commerce, Justice and State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies account received $28 billion, more than $5 billion less than this year's allocation of $33.3 billion. House appropriators divvied up their discretionary funds a week earlier, giving the Commerce account $30.5 billion for FY00. Both houses of Congress will pass their own versions of the spending bill and then meet in a conference committee to work out inevitable differences. The new fiscal year starts on October 1. Census Monitoring Board update: President Clinton has appointed Census Monitoring Board member Gilbert F. Casellas as the panel's new co-chairman. Mr. Casellas replaces Tony Coelho, who resigned earlier this month. An investment banker and attorney, Mr. Casellas also served as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and General Counsel of the United States Air Force. Members of the Monitoring Board met last week with Commerce Secretary William Daley to discuss the status of preparations for the 2000 census. The President has not yet filled the vacancy left by Mr. Coelho's departure from the eight-member panel. Also last week, the Republican co-chairman of the Board said he would continue to serve on the panel despite his appointment as National Chairman of Steve Forbes' presidential campaign. In a written statement, J. Kenneth Blackwell said: "I look forward to continuing my work to ensure the 2000 census does not repeat the mistakes made in 1990 when over four million people were undercounted or missed." Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the senior Democrat on the House census subcommittee, called for Mr. Blackwell's "immediate resignation," saying that he had used his position on the Board to help Republicans retain their majority in the House "by political manipulation of the 2000 census." Earlier this month, the subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Dan Miller (R-FL), urged Mr. Coelho to leave the Board after Mr. Coelho was named General Chairman of Vice President Albert Gore's presidential campaign. Rep. Miller, quoted in a Capitol Hill-based newspaper, accused Mr. Coelho of leading "Democratic efforts... to retake the House by political manipulation of the 2000 census." Neither Mr. Blackwell nor Mr. Coelho is receiving compensation for their campaign service. Other congressional activities: The House Subcommittee on the Census will hold a hearing on counting Americans living abroad in the census. In 2000, the Census Bureau plans to include members of the armed forces, federal civilian employees, and their dependents stationed overseas during the census in the state population totals used as the basis for apportioning seats in Congress among the 50 states. A similar effort in 1990 caused a seat in Congress to shift from Massachusetts to Washington; the Supreme Court upheld the Bureau's decision to count this population in a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts. The census subcommittee bill also examine proposals to count all Americans, not just military and federal personnel, living abroad. The panel will also review legislation (H.R. 1632) to change the way prisoners are counted. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mark Green (R-WI), would require the Census Bureau to count prisoners incarcerated in another state as residents of the state that pays more than half of the cost of incarceration. The Bureau has established a set of rules, called "residency rules," to determine where people should be counted. Prisoners are counted at their place of incarceration, following the Bureau's policy of counting people at the place they usually reside on Census Day (April 1). The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at <terriann2k(a)aol.com>. For copies of previous News Alerts and other information, use our web site www.census2000.org <http://www.census2000.org>. Please direct all requests to receive News Alerts, and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census 2000 Initiative at <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> or 202/326-8700. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals.

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