Did anyone notice on last week's announcement of the release of SF2 (combined LF and SF data) that the "rule of 100" applies? So, even though the "population-/minority count-pony" has long since passed through the paddock gate and is out in the far pasture growing fat on sweet grasses (down to the block level!), the outlook for the long-form data, such as income and poverty (for Environmental Justice concerns), looks a bit grim.
Are other groups outside of transportation, such as health, human services, or education, voicing any concerns about losing the fine geo-level information?
Liz Hartmann
Rsearcher, Office of Investment Management
Minnesota Department of Transportation
>>> ed christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> 01/21/02 15:15 PM >>>
The death knell is sounding for the Census Bureau's long form. Attached
is a notice that appeared last week in the Federal Register. It is
seeking comments by March 18, 2002 on the execution of the long. Read
it carefully and comment appropriately. Note that there is no mention
of TAZ level data. The original notice can be found on the Government
Printing Office Website at
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a020116c.html
Once at this page just slide down to the "Census Bureau" heading.
ed christopher
fhwa-midwestern resource center
708-283-3534
Not true. SF2 is only short form (100% data) -- See the link below for
the technical documentation for SF2.
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf2.pdf
Appendix H "Characteristic Iterations" discusses the use of the population
threshold in showing matrices for specific race groups, Indian and Alaska
Native tribes, and Hispanic or Latino groups.
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Did anyone notice on last week's announcement of the release of SF2
(combined LF and SF data) that the "rule of 100" applies? So, even though
the "population-/minority count-pony" has long since passed through the
paddock gate and is out in the far pasture growing fat on sweet grasses
(down to the block level!), the outlook for the long-form data, such as
income and poverty (for Environmental Justice concerns), looks a bit grim.
Are other groups outside of transportation, such as health, human services,
or education, voicing any concerns about losing the fine geo-level
information?
Liz Hartmann
Rsearcher, Office of Investment Management
Minnesota Department of Transportation
>>> ed christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> 01/21/02 15:15 PM >>>
The death knell is sounding for the Census Bureau's long form. Attached
is a notice that appeared last week in the Federal Register. It is
seeking comments by March 18, 2002 on the execution of the long. Read
it carefully and comment appropriately. Note that there is no mention
of TAZ level data. The original notice can be found on the Government
Printing Office Website at
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a020116c.html
Once at this page just slide down to the "Census Bureau" heading.
ed christopher
fhwa-midwestern resource center
708-283-3534
Hi all. The welcome message for the ctpp-news mailing list has been
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The death knell is sounding for the Census Bureau's long form. Attached
is a notice that appeared last week in the Federal Register. It is
seeking comments by March 18, 2002 on the execution of the long. Read
it carefully and comment appropriately. Note that there is no mention
of TAZ level data. The original notice can be found on the Government
Printing Office Website at
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a020116c.html
Once at this page just slide down to the "Census Bureau" heading.
ed christopher
fhwa-midwestern resource center
708-283-3534
The Transportation Research Board's Subcommittee on Census Data for
Transportation Planning will be meeting at the TRB Annual Meeting on
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:30 PM. Attached is the agenda.
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Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
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Subject: New NAS online book
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:36:57 -0500
From: "Tom Palmerlee" <tpalmerl(a)nas.edu>
To: edc(a)berwyned.com, Elaine.Murakami(a)fhwa.dot.gov
The 2000 Census: Interim Assessment
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10210.html?onpi_listserv010402
For those of you who were not Census data analysts when the 1990 Census data was released, you may be interested in Dowell Myers' book, "Analysis with Local Census Data, Portraits of Change," Academic Press, 1992. This is an excellent reference covering Census Bureau definitions, but more importantly, discusses how to use Census data in trend analyses. Users of Census 2000 data need to be careful in analyzing race data, since in 2000, respondents were able to select more than one answer.
I just checked on Amazon.com and it is listed for $73.95, with 2 used copies avail for less than the new price.
You may also be interested in Dowell's webpage:
www-ref.usc.edu/~dowell
which has other demographic analyses, mostly in California.
The TRB Census Data Subcommittee is sponsoring a workshop on the Census
American Community Survey at the annual meeting this year. The workshop
will be held Sunday, January 13th in the Hilton-Lincoln West room from 8:30
to noon. An agenda is attached - we hope you will be able to join us!
If you cannot make it, but have policy or technical questions, please email
them to me by Thursday, January 10th so that we can incorporate them into
the workshop discussions.
Stacey Bricka
Research Director
NuStats
3006 Bee Caves Rd, Ste A300
Austin, TX 78746
(512) 306-9065, ext 2240
Fax (512) 306-9077
After the announcement of the 1990 Urbanized Areas, the Census Bureau had to
quickly come up with a map product that showed the extent of the 1990 UAs to
support the planning activities of the MPOs. With that experience in mind,
the Census Bureau's Geography Division is planning to produce several
products that show Census 2000 urbanized areas (UAs) and the new urban
clusters (UCs).
The products we are planning to produce include the UA Census 2000
TIGER/Line files, UA Outline Maps, and generalized boundary files for the
UAs/UCs (the shape files will be similar to what we have produced for other
geographic areas for Census 2000). We expect the first product to be
available will be the UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line files which we hope to have
available for all counties shortly after the announcement of the Census 2000
UAs in the Federal Register, tentatively scheduled to be late March, 2002.
(Note: The Federal Register Notice with the final criteria is still being
drafted -- we received a substantial number of responses to the draft
criteria that we
will respond to in the Federal Register Notice. We do not yet have a target
date for the publication of the final criteria.) We are working on having
Chapter 6 of the UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line file documentation (the record
layouts) available shortly on our web site. Maps for the UAs and
generalized boundary files also would be available although probably not as
quickly.
To ensure that we design these map products to meet most users' needs, we
are asking that you take a few minutes and provide us with information that
will help us plan for the necessary content and design of a map type. We
expect these maps to be "large format" -- E-size -- and use color. One map
type you might want to look at when thinking about the questions below is
the Census 2000 Census Tract Outline Map that you can download from the web
in PDF format:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/CP_MapProducts.htm
1. How do you plan to use a map that shows the extent of an urbanized
area/urban cluster? Try to describe what you would do with the map to
support your work and interests using urbanized areas and urban clusters.
2. What information (content) is important beyond the actual boundary?
For example, do you need to know the type of feature that forms the
boundary?
Do you need to know every segment or feature type in areas where the
boundary frequently changes direction? Do you need to know the name of the
feature (road, river, railroad etc.), where there is one available?
Please provide comments back to the Geography Division within the next 10
days (before TRB). You may e-mail your
questions/comments/suggestions/answers to:
ua(a)geo.census.gov
Geography Division staff expect to be at the TRB Subcommittee on Census
Data for Transportation Planning meeting (A1D08(1) Ed J. Christopher, chair;
Wednesday, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Hilton, Georgetown East).
Bob LaMacchia
Geography Division
301-457-1022
rlamacchia(a)geo.census.gov
