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Baltimore Conference on ACS and Administrative Records, June 200

by Chuck Purvis (MTC)

The University of Baltimore is hosting a two-day conference, June 6-7, 2000, on "Developing Public Policy Applications with the American Community Survey and Community Administrative Records" The conference is co-sponsored by the Census Bureau and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The focus is on research interests related to HHS, including "welfare-to-work transitions, economic development, education policy, rural development, housing policy, neighborhood safety, energy and the environment, homelessness, and GIS." Conference web site is at: http://www.ubalt.edu/jfc/Conf/Flyer.htm This is not a transportation-related conference, but may be useful to USDOT, MPO, COG and State DOT staff interested in ACS research. Very interesting..... Chuck. ******************************************************* e-mail: cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov Chuck Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst, Planning Section Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (voice) (510) 464-7848 (fax) WWW: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ MTC DataMart: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/datamart/ MTC FTP Site: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/ Personal WWW: http://home.earthlink.net/~clpurvis/ *******************************************************

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Agencies That Have Responded to Work-UP Questionnaire

by Phillip.A.Salopek＠ccmail.census.gov

The previous file was in a format we did not intend to send. Hopefully the attached file will be able to be read by all. Thanks to all of you who have responded to the Work-UP questionnaire! The Census Bureau is gearing up to send out the package next week. However there are a large number of agencies who have not yet responded. You need to let us know if you are looking to participate in the Work-UP program. Below is a list of agencies from whom I have received a response. If you do not see your name on the list and you have responded, with adequate time for me to receive your letter or fax, please let me know. Otherwise please send me your response as soon as you are able. If you do not have the informational letter and questionnaire, it is on the TRB Subcommittee web site at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/ I can be reached by phone at 301 457 2454, by fax at 301 457 2481, or via email at clara.a.reschovsky(a)ccmail.census.gov Thank you, Clara Reschovsky The Agencies who have responded: (See attached file: wupyes.txt)

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message to list serve

by Clara.A.Reschovsky＠ccmail.census.gov

Thanks to all of you who have responded to the Work-UP questionnaire! The Census Bureau is gearing up to send out the package next week. However there are a large number of agencies who have not yet responded. You need to let us know if you are looking to participate in the Work-UP program. Below is a list of agencies from whom I have received a response. If you do not see your name on the list and you have responded, with adequate time for me to receive your letter or fax, please let me know. Otherwise please send me your response as soon as you are able. If you do not have the informational letter and questionnaire, it is on the CTPP website at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/ I can be reached by phone at 301 457 2454, by fax at 301 457 2481, or via email at clara.a.reschovsky(a)ccmail.census.gov Thank you, Clara Reschovsky The Agencies who have responded: (Embedded image moved to file: pic22663.pcx)

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Metadata/trb2001

by Marcus Wigan

Ed- just to remind you that we took on doing a Metadata session for the Urban data Committee. I know you are flat out, so if you like ill draft a call for paper for you to comment on? marc

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Census 2000 Initiative News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Virginia Lawmakers Move to Bar Use Of Scientifically-Corrected Census Numbers Plus: Census Bureau Clarifies Policy for Hiring Non-Citizens; Congressional Oversight Hearing Scheduled The Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill (HB 1486) that would require the use of unadjusted census figures for congressional, state, and local redistricting. The House bill, passed on February 9, now goes to the State Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. Republicans hold the majority in both chambers of the Virginia legislature; Governor James Gilmore III (R) has said he supports efforts to prohibit the use of statistically-adjusted census numbers for redistricting. The Virginia action comes in the wake of similar debate in state houses across the country over the use of census numbers corrected on the basis of the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation, or ACE, survey. Under the Census 2000 plan, census enumerators will start contacting residents of the 300,000 households in the ACE survey, by telephone, in early May. Interviewing will begin in mid-June and continue through mid-August, 2000. Last year, four states -- Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Kansas -- enacted laws barring the use of census numbers derived in part through statistical sampling methods in the redistricting process. Alaska and Arizona must obtain approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, under section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (as amended), before the new laws can take effect. Update on hiring policy for non-citizens: The Census Bureau has clarified its policy for hiring non-citizens during Census 2000. If the Bureau identifies a need for translation skills in certain communities, it will hire non-citizens (who are otherwise legally eligible to work in the United States) to help with the count, regardless of their country of origin. According to the Bureau, "In some communities employment of individuals with translation skills will emerge as an immediate hiring requirement. Candidates who meet these requirements and are legally authorized to work in the United States may be hired to work on the census." The Census Bureau may hire non-citizens for Census 2000 jobs that do not require translation skills if other legal constraints are followed. Last summer, the Department of Commerce issued a waiver allowing the Census Bureau to hire temporary employees for Census 2000 without giving priority to U.S. citizens. However a recent U.S. General Accounting Office report noted that since 1939, Congress has prohibited most Federal agencies from hiring non-citizens within the United States. But current law also grants certain exceptions to the ban, including persons from countries allied with the U.S. in a defense effort, citizens from Ireland, Israel, and the Philippines, and persons from U.S. territories. Another exception involves the need for translation skills, as the Bureau tries to persuade immigrants to participate in the census and helps them complete the forms. All qualified job applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The Census Bureau must hire about 500,000 temporary employees to fill 860,000 positions during peak census operations. It hopes some workers will perform more than one job. Congressional hearing scheduled: The House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census (Committee on Government Reform) will hold an oversight hearing on Tuesday, February 15, to discuss the U.S. General Accounting Office's oversight of Census 2000 operations. The hearing begins at 2:00 p.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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1998 ACS Data released

by ed christopher

The Census Bureau today announced the release of the third edition of the American Community Survey CD-ROM featuring information from the 1998 survey. (The American Community Survey is designed to replace the long-form questionnaire in the 2010 census.) The CD-ROM, which comes with its own software, allows users to quickly access information in narrative and tabular formats. Users also can view or print charts, maps and reports from prepackaged tabulations, replicating those found in standard decennial reports, and conduct complex data manipulations and customized cross-tabulations. Data are displayed in three formats: community profiles, detailed summary tables (similar to those from the 1990 census), and public-use microdata. The 1998 CD-ROM includes data for two new sites, as well as multi-year data for many 1996 and 1997 sites. The sites added in 1998 were Kershaw and Richland counties in South Carolina and Broward County in Florida. Also included in 1998 were Douglas County, Neb.; Franklin County, Ohio; Fort Bend and Harris counties, Texas; Otero County, N.M.; Rockland County, N.Y.; Multnomah County, Ore.; and Fulton County, Pa. The data may be viewed with Windows 95, 98 or NT operating systems. The CD-ROM includes a user-friendly browser known as Beyond 20/20 licensed by Ivation Datasystems, Inc. The Hands-On Guided Tour includes tutorial "movies" about how to use the software to find the information the user needs. The Quick Start Guide has been updated to direct the user through more complex data manipulations and features. A copy of the American Community Survey questionnaire is provided, along with information about methods, concepts and definitions related to the data. Narrative profiles providing plain-language descriptions of each community complement standard tables. The American Community Survey will provide accurate and timely demographic and economic indicators throughout the decade for federal, state and local governments. Communities can use the information to plan for economic development; to make decisions about locating schools, roads and hospitals; and to monitor change over time. The number of sites was expanded in 1999 to 31. The American Community Survey will be conducted nationwide in 2003. For more information on the survey or to request a free copy of the CD-ROM, please call 1-888-456-7215 or send an e-mail to <acs(a)census.gov>.

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Census 2000 Initiative News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> President Sends 2001 Budget Request to Congress; Funds Needed to Complete Census and Publish Data Plus: Census Bureau Challenges Localities to Boost Response Rates; Local Offices Open, Hiring Blitz Begins; State Legislatures Continue Debate Over Use of Corrected Numbers President Clinton today sent to Congress his budget proposal for fiscal year 2001 (FY01), which begins on October 1, 2000. The request includes $421 million to complete the 2000 decennial census and begin tabulating and publishing the data collected during the count. That amount is a decrease of $4.055 billion from the current year (fiscal year 2000) allocation of $4.476 billion. According to the Administration's summary explanation of its budget, the requested funding will cover completion of the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (ACE) survey, which is designed to measure undercounts and overcounts in the initial set of numbers. The Census Bureau also must finish shutting down local census offices and data processing centers. By law, the Bureau must tabulate and report the total population of each state to the President by December 31, 2000, for purposes of congressional apportionment (i.e. allocating the 435 seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states). By April 1, 2001, it must transmit the detailed, block-level counts to the states for use in the redistricting process. The President also requested $25 million to continue developing the American Community Survey (ACS). (The budget documents refer to the program as "continuous measurement.") The ACS would collect demographic and socio-economic data from a rolling sample of households throughout the decade, possibly eliminating the need for the traditional census long form in 2010. This year, Congress allocated $20 million for the ACS, which the Census Bureau is testing in 31 sites around the country. Funding for the decennial census and the ACS is part of the Periodic Censuses and Programs ("Periodics") account, one of two main funding categories for the Census Bureau. The Periodics account covers activities that support census operations, such as mapping and address list development, as well as other mandated censuses of business establishments and local governments. The total FY01 request for the Periodics account, including Census 2000 activities, is $542 million. The second main funding category for the Bureau is Salaries and Expenses (S & E), which covers ongoing surveys (such as the Current Population Survey) to collect important demographic, economic, and social data. The President proposed $174 million for the S & E account, about $34 million more than the current year's allocation. Congressional hearing scheduled: The House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census will hold an oversight hearing on February 8, to review the status of preparations for Census 2000. Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt will testify. The hearing begins at 2:00 p.m. in room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Census operations update: Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt helped kick-off Census 2000 by visiting the first household to be counted in the Alaskan Native Village of Unalakleet on January 20. The Bureau enumerates remote areas in Alaska two months before the majority of households receive their census forms because the residents of many villages disperse to hunt and fish when the spring thaw arrives. Moving final preparations into high gear, Dr. Prewitt launched a nationwide campaign to recruit temporary workers. The Bureau hopes to build a pool of 3 million qualified applicants, from which it will hire about 500,000 people to fill 860,000 positions over the course of census operations. (Some workers will be asked to perform more than one job.) The goal, the director said at a January 6th press conference, "is to have a pool of local people who are familiar with their communities and committed to a successful count in their own neighborhoods." Dr. Prewitt also announced that the Bureau had opened all 520 local census offices, with help from the General Services Administration. Individuals interested in applying for a census job may call a toll-free number, 1-888-325-7733. Pay rates range from $8.25 to $18.50 per hour, depending on the type of work and the location. Commerce Secretary William Daley joined Dr. Prewitt at a January 11th press event to launch "How America Knows What America Needs," a two-part campaign to boost grassroots participation in the census. Dr. Prewitt called upon people "to transform what in its nature is a civic event into what could and should be the nation's first major civic ceremony of the new century." The first component challenges communities to improve their mail-back rate by at least five percent over 1990. Called "'90 Plus Five," the program's goal is a 70 percent nationwide mail response rate. Only 65 percent of all households returned their census forms in 1990; the Bureau's Census 2000 plan assumes a 61 percent mail-back rate. Beginning on March 27, the Census Bureau will post mail response rates for every jurisdiction in the country on its web site. The response rates will be updated daily, through April 11. The highest elected official in each jurisdiction may sign up to participate in "'90 Plus Five" via the Internet at www.hakwan.com <http://www.hakwan.com> or by calling toll-free, 1-877-642-5926. The campaign's second part, "Because You Count," will encourage households that do not mail back a form to cooperate with enumerators during the "nonresponse follow-up" operation. This second component also targets households in rural areas where census workers deliver questionnaires in person and verify the address and location on a map. The operation is called "update/leave enumeration." State activities update: Debate over the use of census numbers corrected on the basis of a quality-check survey (called the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation, or ACE, survey) continued in state houses, as legislatures reconvened last month. On January 21, the Utah House of Representatives passed House Bill 201, prohibiting the use of "statistically adjusted population data" for drawing congressional, state legislative, and state school board district boundaries. The measure is now pending before the Senate Rules Committee. In Virginia, a bill (HB 1486) pending before the House Privileges and Elections Committee would require the use of unadjusted census figures for congressional, state, and local redistricting. The committee may consider the proposal as early as this week. Census Monitoring Board vacancy filled: President Clinton appointed California's Lieutenant Governor, Cruz M. Bustamante, to fill a vacancy on the eight-member Census Monitoring Board. Prior to his 1998 election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Bustamante was Speaker of the California State Assembly and the first Latino elected to statewide office there in more than 120 years. He spearheaded the successful effort to establish the California Complete Count Committee, to help promote census participation in the nation's most populous state. The legislature approved an unprecedented $25 million to fund the committee's activities. Mr. Bustamante assumed a spot on the Board left vacant when former co-chair Tony Coelho resigned last spring to head Vice President Gore's presidential campaign. The panel was created in late 1997 to observe and monitor all aspects of Census 2000. The President appoints four members of the Board; Congressional Republican leaders appoint the other four members. Press briefing on census 'long form': The Census 2000 Initiative sponsored a press briefing in Washington, DC on February 2, to highlight the importance of information collected in the census. Jacqueline Byers (National Association of Counties), David Crowe (National Association of Home Builders and the Housing Statistics Users Group), and Deborah Weinstein (Children's Defense Fund) explained how local governments and businesses, the housing and mortgage banking industries, and educators and children's advocates use census data to assess community needs, target fiscal resources, and plan for future growth. Seventeen percent of households (one in six) will receive the Census 2000 long form. According to the Census Bureau, the long form will take 40 minutes, on average, to complete. It includes 52 questions covering topics such as educational level, income, ancestry, housing conditions, commuting patterns, disability, veteran's status, and employment. For more information on the long form, see the Fact Sheet on our web site at www.census2000.org/facts/long.html <http://www.census2000.org/facts/long.html>. Stakeholder activities: On January 13, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC) unveiled an instructional video highlighting the importance of census participation for Asian Pacific Americans. Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and Robert J. Shapiro, Commerce Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, joined NAPALC Executive Director Karen Narasaki at a Washington, DC press conference to discuss census education and promotion activities targeting Asian Pacific American communities. The in-language video, produced in eleven different Asian and Pacific Islander languages and dialects, was produced with a grant from AT&T. 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 feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals.

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Documents Announcing the Workplace Update Program

by Phillip.A.Salopek＠ccmail.census.gov

This message is intended for metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Other subscribers to this listserve may ignore it. The documents announcing the Workplace Update program, and soliciting interest in participating in it, were mailed to 350 MPOs and the 50 State DOTs last week. There are three documents: an introductory letter, a short program description, and a questionnaire or order form. On the chance that some of the mail may not reach the correct people in a timely fashion, PDF versions of the documents have been copied to the TRB Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning website at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/. Direct links to the documents are: introductory letter: http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/workup/introletter.pdf program description: http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/workup/program.pdf questionnaire: http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/workup/orderform.pdf

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Census 2000 Work-UP Program letter

by Chuck Purvis (MTC)

To: CTPP-News Metropolitan Plannning Organizations should receive in the mail a 1/21/00 letter from Phil Salopek of the Census Bureau inviting participation in the Work-Up program. Work-Up will give MPOs an opportunity to review, update and correct the list of employers the Census Bureau will use in geocoding Census 2000 workplaces. They will be using the infoUSA employer file, and ArcView 3.1 (or 3.2?) as the basis for this program. Requests for participation are needed before the end of February. Census Bureau intends to distribute the Work-Up software this month, and they need corrected files returned to the Bureau of 4/30/00. For more information on Work-up, contact Clara Reschovsky, Gloria Swieczkowski or Phil Salopek at 301-457-2454. Chuck Purvis, MTC

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