ctpp-news February 2001

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by Jay Hoekstra

I don't like to ask for information that I can find by just looking, but I have looked all over the US Census web site and the BTS website for the - population of urbanized areas, specifically the Grand Rapids, Michigan urbanized area, 1990 But I cannot find it. Can anyone direct me to a source? Thanks. Jay Hoekstra

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RE: [CTPP] population of urbanized area

by Jay Hoekstra

Thank you all for your helpful answers, I have two or three exactly the same answers and 6 references to sources. This is obviously the go to listserv for tough census questions. -----Original Message----- From: owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net [mailto:owner-ctpp-news@chrispy.net]On Behalf Of Jay Hoekstra Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:07 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] population of urbanized area I don't like to ask for information that I can find by just looking, but I have looked all over the US Census web site and the BTS website for the - population of urbanized areas, specifically the Grand Rapids, Michigan urbanized area, 1990 But I cannot find it. Can anyone direct me to a source? Thanks. Jay Hoekstra

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Re: [CTPP] census "in the news"

by ed christopher

> Ed, I must admit I am a little confused. I thought the latest Supreme > Court decision on this matter was that "sampling" (vs. counting) was > not to be used in redistricting. > What gives? > bob Bob--you are absolutely right. The Supreme Court found that sampling could not be used in coming up with the total count of the population for allocation of Congressional seats. That was already done. What was left undecided was allowing the states to use adjusted counts for figuring out their Congressional districts or for allocating money. Some states I believe went ahead and passed their own laws and prohibited the use of adjusted numbers for their own districts. I don't know off hand which ones. Some others couldn't because their state laws had provisions tied to civil rights laws that said the US Justice Department has to review and rule on the action. The Justice Department has not made any rulings until they see what undercounts might be. Virginia, I believe is a state that has to wait for a Justice Department Ruling. They tried to pass a law and I think someone took it to court. A much more detailed explanation of the Virginia situation be found at http://www.census2000.org/news/01/jan5.html Some of the earlier newsletters on the census 2000 site get into more detail than what I just tried to pull from my head. They are at http://www.census2000.org/news/ Hope this helps to clarify what is getting to be a legally messy issue.

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census "in the news"

by ed christopher

There are two articles on the back page of the February 8, 2001, Wall Street Journal, worth looking at. They both deal with issues of sampling and adjustments. One is titled "Bush's Next Recount Battle: Should Census Tallies Be Adjusted?. Below is a press release I receive relative to this article from the Census 2000 group. The other article is titled "Asian Americans Join Census Complaints, Calling for Adjustments via 'sampling'". If you have access to the Wall Street Journal give these articles a look. (The Wall Street Journal is online at www.wsj.com unfortunately you need an account to get to the back page articles.) ================= Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:35:48 -0500 From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, CONTACT: BEN CHEVAT, 202-225-7944 Maloney Slams Reports of White House "Private Promises" to Block use of Accurate Census Data NEW YORK, NY - After reading in the Wall Street Journal today that President Bush has promised House Republicans that his administration will block the use of corrected Census numbers in configuring congressional districts throughout the country, Census Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) released the following statement: The report states that Republicans on Capitol Hill insist, "The White House has privately promised to block states from using sampled numbers to redraw any of the nation's 435 congressional districts." In the story, it was also reported that Missouri GOP Rep. Roy Blunt, Bush's point person in Congress, went on to say he does "not believe there is any reason," that the President would allow the use of "statistical sampling," (WSJ, 02/08/01). "If this report is true, President Bush is now in clear contradiction with statements he made just days ago, when he told every Democratic Member of Congress, in response to a question I posed on correcting the Census undercount, 'I haven't been briefed on that,'" Maloney said today. "When was the President briefed and when did he know it?" Referring to the disenfranchisement of thousands of minority voters in this fall's election in Florida, Maloney added, "This decision will make Florida look like a case of petty theft." "Even worse than the fact that millions of Americans must learn about the Bush Administration's position on counting every American through media reports of 'private promises,' is the fact that it has also now been reported that the Bush team is relying on the counsel of top Republican National Committee staff including 'redistricting guru' Tom Hoffeler, in developing their Census strategy." "President Bush's Republican Administration and colleagues are obviously not worried about the consequences of deciding not to accurately count America's historically undercounted Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian populations, but I can guarantee they will be worried when America's Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian populations learn that the Bush Administration and their GOP cohorts have decided that they don't count," Maloney concluded. ###

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from the census GIS front

by ed christopher

Subject: [public-news-alert] Census Bureau News Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:58:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Angela C. Baker (PIO)" <baker001(a)info.census.gov> To: press-release(a)info.census.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2001 Public Information Office CB01-22 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio(a)census.gov Leo Dougherty 301-457-1128 Census Bureau Breaks New Ground with Release of DVD Products The release on Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) of two geographic products, the fourth version of the TIGER/Census Tract Street Index (CTSI 4) and the federal geographic data viewer called LandView , makes the Census Bureau one of the first federal agencies to publish huge amounts of digital data on DVD and signals a move by the agency to supplement lower-capacity CD-ROMs. The Census Bureau has a tradition of pioneering new technologies to disseminate large public-use files. It used CD-ROMs to disseminate the results of the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, as well as extracts from its Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system, and it has been in the forefront of federal agencies taking advantage of the Internet as a dissemination vehicle. CTSI 4, used by banks and other financial institutions to meet statutory reporting requirements for assigning property addresses on loan applications to the 1990 census tract in which they are located, was released on a single DVD last Nov. 27. Released Nov. 14 on a single DVD rather than 13 CD-ROMs, LandView IV contains both database management software and mapping software, as well as Census Bureau digital map data, U.S. Geological Survey geographic names, data on Environmental Protection Agency-regulated sites and 1990 census demographic and socioeconomic data. The Census Bureau expects a substantial increase in the amount of Census 2000 data published on disc compared to 1990. All machine-readable files will be published on disc. In 1990, only some files were available on CD-ROM. Even with its efforts to reduce file sizes by using compressed data formats, the Census 2000 CD-ROM series could approach 1,000 individual discs (about seven times the total published in 1990). To service customers who want all states in a series (federal depository libraries, census information centers, etc.), the Census Bureau will put each series (Summary Files 1 through 4) on a much smaller number of DVDs, depending on file sizes and formats, after individual state files have been issued on recordable CD-ROMs. DVD was developed by the optical disc industry as the next evolutionary stage in compact disc technology. DVD-ROM uses the same basic technology as DVD video discs, which contain entire feature-length movies. Other Census Bureau geographic products planned for DVD include the TIGER/Line files, beginning with the Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. -X- Editor's note: The embargoed data can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/dcmd/embargo.html. Call the Public Information Office for a password. After the release time, go to http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger

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Fwd: ESRI Announces Census Watch and TIGER/Line 2000 Shapefiles on Geography Network

by Nanda Srinivasan

I got this Information from ESRI on TIGER/Line 2000 shapefiles. Thank you! Nanda Srinivasan 202-366-5021

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Re: [CTPP] TIGER 2000 update

by Peter H. Van Demark

Census transportation community: Users of Caliper GIS products (TransCAD and Maptitude) will be able to get free compact geographic (CDF) files created from Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line. These will come with built-in styles, labels, and autoscaling, ready to be used as layers in your maps. For more information on when these files will be available and how to acquire them, please visit our web site at (http://www.caliper.com). Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Van Demark Director of GIS Products and Training Phone: 617-527-4700 Caliper Corporation Fax: 617-527-5113 1172 Beacon Street E-mail: peter(a)caliper.com Newton MA 02461-9926 Web site: http://www.caliper.com

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TIGER 2000 update and ESRI sites

by Chuck Purvis (MTC)

Hello census-transportation community! Just an update to the release status of the TIGER/line 2000 "redistricting" files. 36 of 52 states/districts have been released as of 2/2/01. States not yet available (as of 2/2/01, AM) are: California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Raw TIGER data is available from the Census Bureau web site at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/tgr2kweb.html ESRI, the commercial developed of ArcView and ArcInfo, has developed a web site for the free downloading of TIGER 2000 GIS files already converted to ArcView "shp" file format. You do have to register, but it really is free and it really does work. Highly recommended! The site is: http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/ Another new site maintained by ESRI is their "Census Watch" site, at: http://www.esri.com/industries/localgov/censuswatch/ I haven't fully explored this Census Watch site, but it bears monitoring. If there are any other web sites worth mentioning in converting TIGER/line to other commercial GIS packages, it might be useful to drop a line to this listserv. (Especially any kind of freeware or shareware useful in converting between GIS packages: ArcView shp files to MapInfo, to/from Caliper's products, etc.) One more web site worth mentioning is a Census 2000 web site for journalists established by Professor Stephen Doig of Arizona State University. "Reporting Census 2000: A Guide for Journalists" can also be a guide for the regional or city planner responsible for summarizing census data. Check it out at: http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census/index.htm That's about all for now. It looks like we will all have about a month to play around with our Census 2000 GIS files before PL 94-171 data starts coming about a month from now. cheers, Chuck Purvis, MTC

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News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Attached as an RTF file is a News Alert from the Census 2000 Initiative Group. The Alert is rather long but contains a variety of interesting information. Articles of note include Utah Challenges Apportionment in Court Citing Omission of Mormon Missionaries Senate Confirms Evans To Be Commerce Secretary Count Question Resolution Process Outlined in Federal Register State legislative Update and Statistically Corrected Numbers Census Monitoring Board Activities Census 2000 Operations Update News from Congress

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