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
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.
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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
> 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.
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.)
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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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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
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
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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
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
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