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Join us for "CTPP Data Access Software Basics"

by Weinberger, Penelope

Hi all, Please join us for CTPP Software Basics on one of the three dates below. Seating is limited and first come first serve. This is a basic introduction to the CTPP data access software and functionality. You will learn how to register/log in, how to access a table, how to manipulate data, or move/swap dimensions within a table, how to download the data and more. If you like, you may first go to: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/3yrdas.aspx and click on “take me to the data” to create a user profile and “poke around” a bit. Register and bring your questions to one of the three trainings below. See you there. Penelope Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/default.aspx <http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/default.aspx> It's just as bad to not make a plan as to blindly follow the one you already have. <http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/1x1.gif> <http://www1.gotomeeting.com/g2w/images/61220428935832225/embed.jpg> CTPP Data Access Software Basics A guided tour through the CTPP Based on three year ACS, including software demo and Q&A Register for a session now by clicking a date below: Wed, May 4, 2011 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/209058312> Mon, May 16, 2011 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/999583609> Thu, Jun 2, 2011 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/899536416> Once registered you will receive an email confirming your registration with information you need to join the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer <http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/1x1.gif>

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2010 Data Release Watch

by Ed Christopher

Next week the Census Bureau is poised to release the local-level 2010 Census population counts for Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Tennessee. Based on a quick and cursory review that leaves only MI, SC, WV, NY, MA, NH,ME,RI and PR. http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

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More on 2010 Census Summary File 1

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

On Thursday, July 7 , the U.S. Census Bureau will release a 2010 Census Summary File 1 Microsoft Access table shell. The table shell will provide an easier way to access Summary File 1 information from the Census Bureau's FTP site http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/. Instructions for how to use the shell and work with the information will also be included in the .zip file. Some of the tables in Summary File 1 of interest to transportation planners include: P12 Sex by Age (23 age categories) P14 Sex by Age (Single years 0-19) P19 Household size and type by presence of children (19 cells) P28 Household type and Household size (16 cells) P42 Group Quarters by GQ Type (10 cells) H3 Housing Units H12 Average Household Size by Housing Tenure (own/rent) For more information on which states have been released, please see: http://2010.census.gov/news/press-kits/summary-file-1.html Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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TAZ delineation update

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Over 100 agencies have ALREADY submitted their files to the Census Bureau Geography Division, with at least 10 agencies submitting files today (June 16). The CB GEO staff have found that the TAZ files look pretty good, and although there are some TAZs that look "too small" these are often in areas with parks or water areas. They also said that the TADs look VERY good, with very good adherence to the 20,000 population threshold. Thank you to everyone! I know the rest of you who are participating in the program are working very hard to complete this task. Getting the TAZ and TAD into Census TIGER is one step for the CTPP 5-year tabulation. This tabulation will use ACS records from 2006-2010. AASHTO is expected to submit the 5-year table list to the Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board this July. Re: TAZ, don't call me J, please call the Census Bureau Geography Division at 301-763-1099. Email: geo.taz.list(a)census.gov Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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Re: [CTPP] Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the various providers?

by Patty Becker

Tim, Have you considered using the state UA system's employer file? That's what SEMCOG uses here in southeast Michigan. They used be be called ES-202 files, but the name may have changed. You'd have to do the geocoding yourself, of course, but that should be do-able. Supposedly those files are establishment based, and I'd think that in MA they would at least be broken down to municipality since county doesn't mean much there. It's definitely worth looking into. Patty Becker At 03:15 PM 6/28/2011, you wrote: >Content-Language: en-US >Content-Type: multipart/related; > >boundary="_004_7A162EBB5533B64089B6065D4D0C925C1344475340MailVM1admapc_"; > type="multipart/alternative" > >I have managed to assemble some funding to >acquire employer data for our 164-municipality >transportation modeling region in Eastern MA, >and I am wondering if any of you have comments >on the accuracy and utility of the various >proprietary employer data sources currently >available. I have been in conversations with >two major providers (InfoGroup and Dun & >Bradstreet) and have received sample files for >certain zip codes, but it is hard to assess the >accuracy or completeness of either sample. > >Im wondering if anybody can offer insight on >working with such data, and whether you have >suggestions on choosing a vendor. We will be >using it primarily to determine employment by >sector at very fine geographies (250m or 1km >grid cells) for land use planning and >analysis. Some concerns we have already >identified include: branch vs. headquarters >employment, public sector employment, paper >companies and verification, and the accuracy of >the goecoded location that accompanies each record. > >Any thoughts are appreciated. Feel free to >reply off-list if concerned about publicly >trumpeting or bashing somebodys product. > >Thanks, >Tim Reardon > >___________________________________________ >Timothy G. Reardon -- Senior Regional Planner >Metropolitan Area Planning Council >60 Temple Place | Boston, MA 02111 >617-451-2770 x2011 ><mailto:treardon@mapc.org>treardon(a)mapc.org >Small logo for email > >Say it with a map! Find data and bring it alive >at <www.MetroBostonDataCommon.htm>www.MetroBostonDataCommon.org! > > > > >---------- >Please be advised that the Massachusetts >Secretary of State considers e-mail to be a >public record, and therefore subject to the >Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66 § 10. > > >_______________________________________________ >ctpp-news mailing list >ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net >http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patricia C. (Patty) Becker 248/354-6520 APB Associates/SEMCC FAX 248/354-6645 28300 Franklin Road Home 248/355-2428 Southfield, MI 48034 pbecker(a)umich.edu

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Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the various providers?

by Reardon , Tim

I have managed to assemble some funding to acquire employer data for our 164-municipality transportation modeling region in Eastern MA, and I am wondering if any of you have comments on the accuracy and utility of the various proprietary employer data sources currently available. I have been in conversations with two major providers (InfoGroup and Dun & Bradstreet) and have received sample files for certain zip codes, but it is hard to assess the accuracy or completeness of either sample. I'm wondering if anybody can offer insight on working with such data, and whether you have suggestions on choosing a vendor. We will be using it primarily to determine employment by sector at very fine geographies (250m or 1km grid cells) for land use planning and analysis. Some concerns we have already identified include: branch vs. headquarters employment, public sector employment, "paper companies" and verification, and the accuracy of the goecoded location that accompanies each record. Any thoughts are appreciated. Feel free to reply off-list if concerned about publicly trumpeting or bashing somebody's product. Thanks, Tim Reardon ___________________________________________ Timothy G. Reardon -- Senior Regional Planner Metropolitan Area Planning Council 60 Temple Place | Boston, MA 02111 617-451-2770 x2011 treardon(a)mapc.org<mailto:treardon@mapc.org> [cid:image001.jpg@01CC35A5.2547A4F0] Say it with a map! Find data and bring it alive at www.MetroBostonDataCommon.org! ________________________________ Please be advised that the Massachusetts Secretary of State considers e-mail to be a public record, and therefore subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66 ? 10.

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Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the various providers -- PLEASE RE-SEND RESPONSES

by Reardon , Tim

Thanks to everyone who has replied both on- and off-list! Unfortunately, I cannot read any of the on-list responses, because they are scrubbed of content in the digest posting and on-line (I think this has to do with the logo image in my original post.) If you replied already, could you please send your comments to me directly or reply to this post? Thanks, Tim Reardon PS--this is what is coming through on the digest: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:45:33 -0500 From: "Ju, Sharon" <sharon.ju(a)h-gac.com> Subject: RE: [CTPP] Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the various providers? To: "'ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net'" <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <92A18DA6B8C8CB4C8E401DF64836AF6B5F813E5919@ntex03> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1760 bytes Desc: image001.jpg Url : http://ryoko.chrispy.net/pipermail/ctpp-news/attachments/20110628/48465d57/… ------------------------------ Message: 2 Etc... Please be advised that the Massachusetts Secretary of State considers e-mail to be a public record, and therefore subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66 § 10.

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RE: [CTPP] Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the variousproviders?

by Geoffrey Chiapella

Tim, I am currently working with the InfoGroup dataset for San Luis Obispo County (California Central Coast; population 270,000; 7 cities and the county, approximately 15,000 business records), as part of a regional land use and travel model improvement plan. As we are doing land use modeling at the parcel-level, we are in the process of linking employment point data to the parcel data. At the same time, our local/regional branch of CalFire is developing an address point shape file/database for the whole county. InfoGroup dataset includes LAT-LONG, so you are able to display data using coordinate data, however most employment points will not align with the correct parcel. However, they will likely align with the correct grid cell (whether 250m or 1km grid cell), based on the level of detail at which you're working. As we're working at a very fine level of detail here (parcel level), I'll spare you the details on fixing the alignment of business/employer points, except to say that we are linking the unique IDs of the address point dataset with the business/employer records. As far as the quality of the data, there are duplicate records to contend with. Some typical issues: · A business may have changed names over the years, but still stayed in business: you'll likely have two records for that single business; · Multiple address/business records for the one major university in the region, which indicate various university departments, special facilities, etc. (with the number of universities in the Greater Boston region, this could be a concern no matter what dataset you go with) · Multiple address/business records for places like medical offices, where a single medical office or practice may have a half-dozen (or many more) physicians, but it's really just one employment location; · A similar problem for hospitals: many business addresses that represent various departments of the medical facility, but it's really just one employment; · PO Boxes: Although no physical address may be associated with these data records, you can still rely on coordinate data to display these data points; · Non-standard addresses: difficult to geocode, but typically not a large percentage of the overall dataset; · Work at home: There is a field that indicates "at-home" businesses, so you may want to sort those out and handle them separately. You can geocode the dataset (or significant portions of the dataset) where you have good, standard addresses. Overall, the addresses associated with the data seem to be very good; unit or suite numbers are included as necessary. The fields for "SECONDARY_ADDRESS" seem to all be local physical addresses, whereas the fields for "PRIMARY_ADDRESS" seem to include some out-of-area addresses. Branch vs. HQ issue do not seem prevalent. Public employment data is rather shaky; probably best to rely on state-level "employment development department" or equivalent. I mentioned the address point file that is in progress in our region, as it may be something to consider in your region: Is there a master address file for some or all of the region? If it does exist, more than likely the spatial alignment would be very good, and it may pay off to link the new dataset with a regional address point dataset. Feel free to follow-up with any questions. Thanks! Geoffrey Chiapella Transportation Planner San Luis Obispo Council of Governments 1114 Marsh Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 781-5190 gchiapella(a)slocog.org Geoffrey Chiapella Transportation Planner San Luis Obispo Council of Governments 1114 Marsh Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 781-5190 gchiapella(a)slocog.org From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Reardon , Tim Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:15 PM To: 'ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net' Subject: [CTPP] Proprietary Employer Data -- Comments on the variousproviders? I have managed to assemble some funding to acquire employer data for our 164-municipality transportation modeling region in Eastern MA, and I am wondering if any of you have comments on the accuracy and utility of the various proprietary employer data sources currently available. I have been in conversations with two major providers (InfoGroup and Dun & Bradstreet) and have received sample files for certain zip codes, but it is hard to assess the accuracy or completeness of either sample. I'm wondering if anybody can offer insight on working with such data, and whether you have suggestions on choosing a vendor. We will be using it primarily to determine employment by sector at very fine geographies (250m or 1km grid cells) for land use planning and analysis. Some concerns we have already identified include: branch vs. headquarters employment, public sector employment, "paper companies" and verification, and the accuracy of the goecoded location that accompanies each record. Any thoughts are appreciated. Feel free to reply off-list if concerned about publicly trumpeting or bashing somebody's product. Thanks, Tim Reardon ___________________________________________ Timothy G. Reardon -- Senior Regional Planner Metropolitan Area Planning Council 60 Temple Place | Boston, MA 02111 617-451-2770 x2011 treardon(a)mapc.org Say it with a map! Find data and bring it alive at www.MetroBostonDataCommon.org! ________________________________ Please be advised that the Massachusetts Secretary of State considers e-mail to be a public record, and therefore subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66 § 10.

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Historic county-to-county flows

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

The CTPP group LOVES it when someone asks an interesting question. Today's interesting question is: Where can I get 1980 county-to-county flow data? The answer is: http://www.bea.gov/regional/reis/jtw/ The 1980 UTPP was NOT a nationwide package, but individual MPOs and state DOTs contracted with the Census Bureau. Fortunately, BEA had a special tabulation nationwide for these flows. These are based on the 1980 Census "long form" sample. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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