ctpp-news July 2000

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by ed christopher

The 1999 ACS data has just been released. Information about it can can be found on the Census Bureau's ACS web site. http://www.census.gov/CMS/www/index.html

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Congressional SubCommittee Hearing on American Community Survey

by Chuck Purvis (MTC)

Dear CTPP News Recipients: The US House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on the Census, held a hearing this past Thursday, July 20th, on the American Community Survey. Written testimony presented at this meeting is included on Congressman Dan Miller's web site, at: http://www.house.gov/danmiller/census/hearing/hearing.html I would encourage census data users to review Congressman Miller's opening remarks, the statemement by the Census Bureau director, Kenneth Prewitt, and statements by: John Spotila (OMB), David Crowe, (National Association of Home Builders), and Chuck Fluharty ((Rural Policy Research Institute), and Kulka and Lessler (Research Triangle Institute.) Obviously this is the written testimony, and I can't "read between the lines" so I'm uncertain what was the tenor of the congressional subcommittee in terms of support or antagonism towards ACS. Dr. Prewitt mentioned that the 1999 ACS data for 21 of the 31 areas would be released the week of July 24, 2000. I've check the Bureau's ACS web site, and haven't seen the '99 data yet. To me, it's kind of like waiting for the Nouveau Beaujolais.... http://www.census.gov/CMS/www/ Chuck Purvis, MTC

22 years, 10 months

Census 2000 Initiative News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Justice Department Withholds Judgment On Alaska Anti-Sampling Redistricting Law; Continues to Spar with Virginia Over Similar Measure Plus: Census Funding Bill Clears Senate Committee; Senate Confirms Mineta To Be Commerce Secretary; Update on Census Operations The U.S. Department of Justice has notified Alaska state officials that it cannot determine, until Census 2000 data are available, whether a change to the state Constitution and a related provision of law violate the federal Voting Rights Act. "[U]ntil the Alaska block-level 2000 census data are released," wrote Joseph D. Rich, Acting Chief of the Voting Section, "we cannot properly evaluate the effect of the proposed limitations in HJR 44 and SB 99 on the political participation opportunities of Alaska's minority voters in future legislative redistricting plans." The July 7th letter to Alaska Assistant Attorney General James L. Baldwin is the latest step in the 'preclearance' process required by section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; Alaska is one of 16 states with a history of election-related discrimination covered by section 5. Last summer, state officials asked the Justice Department to sign off on two new measures that, in relevant part, prohibit the use of statistically adjusted numbers to redraw legislative district boundaries following the census. A provision of House Joint Resolution No. 44, enacted in 1998, amends the Alaska Constitution to require the use of official decennial census data by the state's Redistricting Board. A provision of Senate Bill 99 (Chapter 18), enacted in 1999, defines "official" census data as the population numbers used for congressional apportionment, which the Supreme Court ruled cannot be derived through sampling methods under federal law. The two provisions limiting the type of census data that may be used for redistricting cannot take effect without Justice Department approval. The Census Bureau is required by law to transmit detailed population figures to the states by April 1, 2001, for use in the redistricting process. The State of Virginia, also covered by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, continued to seek quick approval from a federal court for a law enacted last spring that bars the use of statistically corrected population data for congressional and state legislative redistricting. Bypassing the Justice Department's preclearance process, Virginia asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in April to rule that the law complies with the Voting Right Act. The department subsequently asked the three-judge panel to delay consideration of the case until 2000 census data are released. In addition, ten Democratic state legislators and the American Civil Liberties Union, all of who oppose the new law, filed requests to intervene in the lawsuit. Earlier this month, in response to the proposals to delay a judicial decision, Virginia Attorney General Mark L. Earley asked the district court to rule expeditiously in favor of the new law. The motion for summary judgment notes that the state is one of a handful to hold odd-year elections, leaving little time after block-level census data are released in 2001 to draw new legislative districts. Census Bureau appropriations update: The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a funding bill that includes money for the decennial census and other Census Bureau programs in fiscal year 2001. The Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations bill (not yet numbered) cleared the panel on July 18; the House of Representatives passed its version of the measure (H.R. 4690) on June 26. The full Senate is likely to consider the bill this week before adjourning for the traditional August recess. The Senate bill includes $389.7 million for Census 2000 activities, about $3 million less than the Clinton Administration's request of $392.8 million (but about $300,000 more than the House bill) to close down local census offices and data processing centers, finish the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) program, and tabulate and disseminate data collected in the census. In their report explaining the bill's provisions, the appropriators directed the Census Bureau, in concert with the State Department, to count private American citizens living abroad "in future censuses when appropriate." The bill allocates $21.6 million for continued development of the American Community Survey (ACS), less than the $25 million the Administration requested but more than the House-approved $20 million. (Funding for the ACS falls under the 'continuous measurement' category.) If fully implemented in 2003, the ACS could eliminate the need for a traditional 'long form' in the 2010 census by gathering data on housing, most population characteristics, commuting patterns, and economic status from a rolling annual sample of three million households throughout the decade. (The House Subcommittee on the Census held a hearing on July 20 to review the Census Bureau's plans for the American Community Survey. The Census 2000 Initiative will report on the highlights of this in-depth oversight hearing in a future News Alert.) Overall, Senate appropriators came closer than their House counterparts to meeting the Administration's request of $719.2 million for the Census Bureau in the fiscal year starting October 1, 2000. The Salaries and Expenses ('S&E') account, one of the Bureau's two broad funding categories, received $158.4 million for ongoing surveys of the population and economy, $18.4 million more than the House allocation but $15.4 million short of the requested $173.8 million. The Senate committee provided funds to develop a new measure of electronic business (part of the Commerce Department's 'E-Commerce' Initiative) and to survey minority-owned businesses more frequently. The Periodic Censuses and Programs ('Periodics') account, which covers activities related to the decennial census and other cyclical programs, received $535.2 million, $5.6 million more than the House figure but $10.2 million below the budget request. For all Census Bureau activities, the Senate appropriations committee bill falls $25.6 million short of the Administration's request, while the House-passed version is $51.8 million below the request. Following Senate passage of the Commerce spending measure, each chamber will appoint members to a conference committee that will iron out differences between the two versions of the bill. Mineta nomination moving through Senate: Former California Rep. Norman Mineta became the first Asian American to serve in a cabinet position after the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination to be Secretary of Commerce. The Senate approved the nomination by voice vote and without debate on July 20, after the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation endorsed President Clinton's pick to succeed William Daley earlier in the day. Mr. Daley resigned from his post last month to head up Vice President Gore's presidential campaign. The Census Bureau is an agency of the Commerce Department. Secretary Mineta represented the San Jose area in Congress for 20 years before resigning in 1995 to take a senior executive post with Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was active in policy debates during the 1990 census, opposing efforts to exclude undocumented residents from the state population totals used for congressional apportionment and supporting the collection of detailed data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Census 2000 operations update: Census 2000 counting activities continue across the country, as census takers gather information from homes built after the pre-census address listing effort ended last fall and revisit housing units identified as vacant or nonexistent in earlier operations. A separate group of more seasoned enumerators is completing interviews of 314,000 households in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) survey, to check the quality of the direct counting effort and provide a basis for correcting under- and overcounts using statistical methods. The Census Bureau also decided to recount households in several areas where they believe some census takers cut corners to finish their nonresponse follow-up caseloads, possibly at the urging of local census managers. Enumerators are revisiting about 9,000 households in Chicago and 71,000 households in Hialeah, Florida. Bureau officials said they ordered the recounts after learning that census takers might have sought information from neighbors or other surrogate sources of information before making six attempts (three in person and three by telephone) to contact the residents of a household, as required by census rules. Stakeholder activities: The Census Bureau's advisory committees will meet jointly on Friday, July 28, to review the American Community Survey, planning for the 2010 census, and the status of Census 2000 operations. The committees include the five panels focused on racial and ethnic populations, the professional association representatives, and the Commerce Secretary's 2000 Census Advisory Committee. The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.; it is open to the public. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to Terri Ann 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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NPTS 2000 Follow-UP

by Ken Cervenka

Hello All. Regarding the NPTS 2000 Survey, in which Congress deleted the funding for this "every five years" household survey, I don't believe this is a "done deal", yet, the funding could still be revived, with some congressional decisions to be made this week. Can anyone confirm this? For those so inclined to send emails of support for a worthy cause, here is a web site with the names and email addresses of all members of the Subcommittee on Transportation: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/commpage.cgi?committee=happrop_tra ns This is a very long URL address, so if you can't just click on it, you can copy it and paste it into your browser. Ken Cervenka North Central Texas Council of Governments -----Original Message----- From: ed christopher [mailto:berwyned@mcs.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:50 AM To: ctpp-news maillist this was posted to another listserve but serves as a response to Jerry Everett's NPTS question from yesterday. ************* Congress deleted the line item for the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) for 2000. FHWA is working on their response. I think many of us do not realize how instrumental the NPTS is to a lot of what we do. The NPTS is the only source of travel-characteristic data for the nation, allowing us to track trends since 1969 when the first survey was done. NPTS data was used to develop the household trip generation rates in the update of the old NCHRP 187, published as the NCHRP 365, *Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning*. Many, many areas use it for bench-marking their locally collected data. It offers comparative data for any area to see the similarities and differences to regional and national trends. A number of States and MPOs use the NPTS data as a source of default values when no other data is available, especially for smaller population groups such as elderly drivers. State-wide models are being developed using the NPTS data to fill in rural areas or smaller towns and cities. The web site (http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/) was a real step forward to make accessing the data easy, and is a good resource for special studies and topic papers, such as the one on trip chaining. The 2000 survey would have been a valuable tool to address contemporary transportation needs and topics because of the extension of the previous data as well as the addition of new data items directed to emerging issues.

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TAZ Verification Completed

by Srinivasan, Nanda <FHWA>

The TAZ Verification program to verify the updated TAZ layer in the TIGER database has been completed. 278 agencies responded on-time to accept or revise the new TAZ layer for 1454 counties. A database of agency and county information has been placed on the CTPP website for your reference. To access the file, please visit: http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/tazinfo.html or alternately: http://members.tripod.com/~TRBstate/ctpp/tazv0717.pdf *Thank you* for your participation and on-time response. We are sure your contributions will help in a timely delivery of CTPP 2000. If you have any questions, please call me at 202-366-5021 (e-mail: ctpp(a)fhwa.dot.gov) Nanda Srinivasan

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[Fwd: [tmip] Digest Number 257 -Reply]

by ed christopher

this was posted to another listserve but serves as a response to Jerry Everett's NPTS question from yesterday.

22 years, 11 months

NPTS 2000

by Mcguckin, Nancy <FHWA>

Congress deleted the line item for the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS). FHWA is working on their response. I think many of us do not realize how instrumental the NPTS is to a lot of what we do. The NPTS is the only source of travel-characteristic data for the nation, allowing us to track trends since 1969 when the first survey was done. NPTS data was used to develop the household trip generation rates in the update of the old NCHRP 187, published as the NCHRP 365, *Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning*. Many, many areas use it for bench-marking their locally collected data. It offers comparative data for any area to see the similarities and differences to regional and national trends. A number of States and MPOs use the NPTS data as a source of default values when no other data is available, especially for smaller population groups such as elderly drivers. State-wide models are being developed using the NPTS data to fill in rural areas or smaller towns and cities. The web site (http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/) was a real step forward to make accessing the data easy, and is a good resource for special studies and topic papers, such as the one on trip chaining. The 2000 survey would have been a valuable tool to address contemporary transportation needs and topics because of the extension of the previous data as well as the addition of new data items directed to emerging issues.

22 years, 11 months

NPTS 2000 is Dead?

by Jerry Everett

I received some disturbing information today indicating that the NPTS data collection planned for this fall will not be occurring. I was told the funding for the program has been or will be cut from the FY 2001 DOT budget. Has anyone else heard this? If so can you confirm that it is true? Is FHWA cutting the funding or is it being cut by congress.

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Important Information

by ed christopher

The Draft Standard Tabulations for CTPP 2000 are now available for review and comment. They can found at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/content.html The July issue of the "status report" newsletter has been mailed and is available on the web. In the "status report" is important information regarding PUMS, ACS and the CTPP standard tabulations. http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/newsltr/sr0700.html A list depicting the status of all TAZ submittals as of July 7, 2000, can be found at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/tazinfo.html Finally, all this information is linked through the subcommittee web site http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/

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Recall: [CTPP] Attention TAZ-Verify Participants: TAZ-Verificatio n will end on July 14, 2000

by Tambellini, Rick L.

Tambellini, Rick L. would like to recall the message, "[CTPP] Attention TAZ-Verify Participants: TAZ-Verification will end on July 14, 2000".

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