ctpp-news November 2003

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by Chris Parrinello

One other thing I should have emphasized is that the archives of the listserv are now located at this URL: http://www.chrispy.net/pipermail/ctpp-news/ The archives are divided up by month and also can be displayed by subject, thread, date and author. The URL for the archives is also available off of the list information page whose URL is at the bottom of each mail message you receive from the listserv. Just as a note, I will be changing the www.chrispy.net webserver to redirect from http://www.chrispy.net/ctpp-news to the new archives sometime after Thanksgiving. New posts to the listserv will not appear in the old archives. Thanks, Chris

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Listserv changes...

by Chris Parrinello

Hello all, This message should serve as a test of the new ctpp-news listserv software. We have decided to migrate from majordomo to Mailman (http://www.list.org/) as the listserv software in order to allow easier access to list archives, the ability of members to subscribe to list via a digest instead of of a non-batched version of the list and some better administrative stuff that will make our lives a little easier to maintain this list. The address to email the list is still the same (ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net) but to make changes to your subscription (including unsubscribing, changing to digest version, etc.), you should follow this link: http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news and scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your email address in the box below the "To change your subscription..." text. You will need a password to make changes so click on the Email My Password to Me button and your mailing list password will be mailed to you. Let me know if you have any questions or problems. Thanks, Chris

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Journey to Work Trends 1960-2000

by Corey Hull

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Errata for Part 1 of CTPP 2000 (Data by Place of Residence)

by phillip.a.salopek＠census.gov

The review of the initial release of Part 1 of CTPP 2000 is complete. The errors that were identified are listed in the document entitled Errata for CTPP Part 1. The errata file also includes general notes about the data that answer some of the more frequently asked questions, as well as copies of two data notes from the Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF3) regarding comparing sample (long form) estimates with Census 2000 hundred percent data from sources like Summary File 1. The direct link to the errata file is http://www.trbcensus.com/articles/part1errata.pdf. You can also find the file by going to the TRB Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning at http://www.TRBcensus.com/ and clicking on Notes and News under the Site Navigation heading. Then under the Census-Related Notes and Articles heading click on the link to Errata for CTPP Part 1.

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Census News Brief

by ed christopher

November 14, 2003 Senate Tries, Fails to Complete Action on FY04 Commerce Appropriations Bill Plus: Revised Census 2000 Population Totals Give N.C. and Utah Heartburn. Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate started and then stopped consideration of the Fiscal Year 2004 Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, as unrelated disputes between Republicans and Democrats delayed the chambers regular business. It now appears that House and Senate negotiators will try to iron out differences between the House-passed version and Senate Appropriations Committee version of the bill. The compromise measure could later be rolled into a catch-all spending bill for Fiscal Year 2004 (FY04), which began October 1. The Commerce spending bill contains funding for the Census Bureau. The Senate committee bill appropriates $550.9 million for Census Bureau programs, $111 million less than the Bush Administration requested. In a Statement of Administration Policy issued this week, the White House urged the Senate to restore full funding for the Census Bureau. This reduction would severely impact the Economic Census, the 2010 Census reengineering effort, and other important activities to improve the availability and quality of our Nations key economic, social, and demographic statistics, the Administration warned. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of the spending bill (S. 1585) in September, but several controversial provisions unrelated to the census have slowed progress on the legislation. Senior White House advisers said they would recommend a presidential veto if the final Commerce-Justice-State bill contains three provisions in the Senate committee bill that the Administration strongly opposes. Those provisions relate to a new Federal Communications Commission rule on media ownership, foreign aid for family planning groups that distribute information on abortion, and contracting out certain crime prevention and control activities at the Justice Department. The U.S. House of Representatives, which approved its version of the bill (H.R. 2799) last summer, allocated $662 for Census Bureau activities, the amount requested by the President. Roughly $260 million of that amount would fund the three main components of the Bureaus 2010 census planning strategy: Reengineering the census design; updating the Master Address File and digital geographic maps; and replacing the traditional long form with the American Community Survey (ACS). At a Decennial Census Advisory Committee meeting in October, Director C. Louis Kincannon said the Census Bureau would launch the ACS nationwide late next year as planned, even if Congress does not approve all of the money requested for agency programs. The Bureau instead would consider scaling back a major field test and an overseas enumeration test in 2004, and slow the pace of fixing misaligned features in the TIGER map database. Last week, Congress passed a third temporary funding bill, as it continues to debate FY04 federal agency spending bills. The so-called Continuing Resolution extends funding at Fiscal Year 2003 levels through November 21, for agencies whose FY04 appropriations bills have not been signed into law. The current fiscal year began on October 1. Apportionment would narrow, not change, under revised census counts: Changes in state population totals resulting from the Census 2000 Count Question Resolution (CQR) program would have increased the likelihood that Utah would have gained a fourth seat in Congress and North Carolina would not have picked up a 13th seat, but the apportionment outcome ultimately would not have changed. The Census Bureau informed Congress on September 30, the closing date of the CQR program, that a duplication problem at University of North Carolina dormitories resulted in an overcount of 2,673 in Chapel Hill. Bureau officials said some students mistakenly received, and then mailed back, census forms; dormitories are counted with assistance from university officials under the group quarters program. According to an analysis of the revised state population totals prepared by the Congressional Research Service (an arm of the Library of Congress), the margin for the 435th seat in the U.S. House of Representatives would narrow substantially based on the revised numbers from CQR. North Carolina would still win a 13th seat, with 309 persons to spare, instead of the 3,084-person margin calculated using the official state population figures. Utah would miss gaining a fourth seat by 87 instead of 855 persons. The North Carolina mistake was the largest discovered through the CQR program, which gave local, state, and Tribal officials an opportunity to challenge Census 2000 housing unit and group quarters counts. The Census Bureau did not collect any new information in the field during CQR. Nationwide, the CQR program added or subtracted 7,183 persons from the state population totals issued immediately following the census, resulting in a net change of 1,427 to the apportionment population. Missouri had the largest gain (+1,472); Utah picked up 29 people. Utahs three House members reiterated their belief that the state deserved another congressional district, calling the newly discovered duplicates an egregious error and saying they intend to do everything possible to get the new seat. Utah filed two unsuccessful lawsuits after the 2000 census, claiming it was entitled to a fourth seat in Congress. One case challenged a statistical technique known as imputation, which assumes the existence and characteristics of some people who are not counted on a census form or in person. The other claimed that private American citizens, such as Mormon missionaries, living abroad during the census should have been counted for apportionment purposes. Members of the armed forces and federal civilian employees stationed overseas were included in the state apportionment totals. 2004 Census Advisory Committee meetings announced: The Census Bureaus five Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees (REACs, which represent the African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander populations) will meet jointly on May 5 7 and November 8 10, 2004. The Commerce Departments Decennial Census Advisory Committee (DCAC) will meet on April 29 30, and October 28 29, 2004. The Census Bureau has not yet announced a location for the meetings. Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent consultant in Washington, DC. Please direct questions about the information in this News Brief to Ms. Lowenthal at 202/484-3067 or by e-mail at TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com. Please feel free to circulate this document to other interested individuals and organizations. The Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) has posted News Briefs through April 2003 on the Census 2000 Initiative web site, at www.census2000.org. If you would like copies of Census News Briefs distributed after April 2003, please contact Ms. Lowenthal directly. -- Ed Christopher Planning Specialist Resource Center Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell)

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