ctpp-news September 2013

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FW: Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed

by Chuck Imbrogno

Apologies to all. Meant to forward to folks in-house. Hit "send" before changing the "recipients" field. Chuck Imbrogno -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Imbrogno Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 4:11 PM To: 'ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net' Subject: RE: [CTPP] Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed Shannon, Chuck: FYI - See bottom of this e-mail chain for the "Media Advisory" from the Census Bureau regarding the Commuter Flow data that Tom Fontaine asked about earlier today. Data was "embargoed" by the Census Bureau. Available to the media at noon today, but not released publicly to everyone else (including us) until midnight tonight. Bob Schwartz should be downloading the file sometime in the morning. Chuck Imbrogno -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Graham, Todd Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:32 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed Census Bureau wil be releasing data and reports on commuting patterns next week. If you have Census PIO embargo access, you'll be able to dig into it as early as Monday afternoon. This is a new product -- so I'm not sure how the data will be structured -- anyone know? Enjoy. --Todd Graham Metropolitan Council Research ________________________________________ From: U.S. Census Bureau [census(a)subscriptions.census.gov] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 9:54 AM Subject: Census Bureau News -- **Census Bureau Media Advisory** Commuting Products to be Embargoed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 Public Information Office CB13-39 301-763-3030 email: <pio(a)census.gov> ***CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY*** Commuting Products to be Embargoed The U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office will offer an embargo period next week for members of the media to view a series of commuting products. Statistics will be available for every county in the U.S. showing the number of workers that commute in or out and which counties those commuters travel to and from. Additional reports and tables, based on statistics from the American Community Survey, examine U.S. residents traveling across county and state lines to work. Specifically, the products present U.S. workers who have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and workers who have "mega commutes" of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles. Statistics will also be available for every county in the U.S. that show the number of workers that commute into or out of the county and which counties those commuters travel to and from. The reports and tables will be posted to the Census Bureau's embargo site at noon EST Monday, March 4. The public release will be at 12:01 a.m. EST Tuesday, March 5. Wire and distribution services are prohibited from distributing embargoed news releases and data files to subscribers before the public release date and time. If you are interested in scheduling a radio interview on Tuesday, March 5, please contact the U.S. Census Bureau Public Information Office at 301-763-3030. _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

9 years, 11 months

CTPP Training!

by Weinberger Penelope

CTPP Training Opportunity in the Northeast! Census Transportation Planning Products Program (CTPP) Training is chiefly aimed at data users at the MPO and State. It is appropriate for consultants and students as well. This training is designed for anyone who is required to work on long range planning, congestion management, travel forecast, air quality analysis. Data users whose job requirements include being able to figure out who is going where and when will benefit from this training. CTPP training is one full day, hands on, and computer lab based. Participants will engage in discussion, practice analytical skills through exercises, learn to navigate the NEW CTPP software for five-year CTPP, and leave with a better understanding of what transportation data are available and what are the avoidable pitfalls to using them. CTPP will be doing hands on training in the first two weeks of October in the following locations: Shippensburg, PA (Oct 1) Piscataway, NJ (Oct 10) If you are available and would like to register, please contact me off-list - pweinberger(a)aashto.org and I will tell you how!

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Re: [CTPP] U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates

by Liang.Long.CTR＠dot.gov

Hi, Chuck Thanks for your reminding that ACS 2012 will be the first ACS product that incorporate 2010 Census PUMA. I would also like to add that ACS 2012 is the first full data year to include increased sample size which results estimated 9% reduction in MOEs across estimates. Enjoy! Liang ________________________________________ From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] on behalf of Charles Purvis [clpurvis(a)att.net] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 11:01 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates Thanks Penelope for the reminder! The good news with the ACS 2012 is that the Census-2010-based PUMAs (Public Use Microdata Areas) are a "standard summary level" in American Factfinder. If you're using American Factfinder (AFF), just select the "all geographic types" (instead of "most requested geographic types") in the geographic selection window of AFF. The 3-year (2010-2012) and 5-year (2008-2012) ACS data are scheduled for release over the next several months, with the 5-year PUMS (I'll assume with the newer PUMAs) to be released in January 2014. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/2012_release_schedule/ 10/24/13 -- 3 year ACS data; and the 1-year PUMS 12/5/13 -- 5 year ACS data; and the 3-year PUMS 1/23/14 - 5-year PUMS Lots of new interesting data to plumb. Chuck Purvis Hayward, California On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Weinberger Penelope <pweinberger(a)aashto.org> wrote: _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

10 years, 7 months

FW: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates

by Weinberger Penelope

From: U.S. Census Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:23 AM To: Weinberger Penelope Subject: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates [ACS Banner] U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Statistics We are pleased to announce the release of the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year statistics, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, and housing information every year. The survey is the only source of local statistics for most of the 40 topics it covers, such as educational attainment, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner costs. The statistics are available for the nation, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district, every metropolitan area, and all counties and places with populations of 65,000 or more. To find statistics for your area, please visit the Census Bureau's American FactFinder<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…>. To learn more about this release, visit our 2012 Data Release page<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…>. In addition, the Census Bureau released today a set of American Community Survey Briefs<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…>. These short reports supplement detailed tables with additional analysis on three key topics. These include the following: * Poverty: 2000 to 2012<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…> * Household Income: 2012<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…> * Mitigating the Loss of Private Insurance with Public Coverage for the Under-65 Population: 2008 to 2012<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…> The ACS provides reliable statistics that are indispensable to anyone who has to make informed decisions about the future. These statistics are required by all levels of government to manage or evaluate a wide range of programs, but are also useful for research, education, journalism, business and advocacy. If you have questions about this survey, please call our Customer Services Center at 1 (800) 923-8282. Thank you, American Community Survey Office U.S. Census Bureau

10 years, 7 months

Short summary of key points from Jim Treat's presentation at APDU (Association of Public Data Users)

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

http://apdu.org/events/conference/apdu-2013/ Many of the presentations are now available at the APDU website. You might like to look at the session on Social Media, but the topic of the greatest interest to the CTPP community is about ACS. Jim Treat from the Census Bureau discussed ACS activities: 1. ACS Data Users Group has been established. (Note: Ed Christopher from FHWA is our transportation data representative to this group.) 2. Data release schedule: a. 1 year 2012 ACS: Sept 19, 2013 b. 3 year 2010-2012 ACS: October 24. c. 5 year 2008-2012 ACS: December 5. d. New product will be 3-year comparison profiles of non-overlapping years: 2007-2009 with 2010-2012. 3. Census API -over 3500 developer keys have been distributed. Census developers forum has over 900 members. 4. ACS Content review. a. The Census Bureau has identified 18 criteria on which to determine whether questions should be kept or discarded. i. 12 of the measures are on utility and quality ii. 6 of the measures are on difficulty. b. Federal agencies will be asked to submit "clear documentation" to justify "their" questions this fall. (Note: this type of request seems to be happening with more frequency. USDOT submitted a big package of justification to OMB for the journey to work questions in ACS in September 2012). c. Beginning in January 2014, there will be an on-line survey of non-federal data users on ACS Content. On Sept 25, APDU will be conducting a webinar on Statistical Disclosure Control. Tom Krenzke from Westat and Clara Reschovsky from the Metropolitan Washington COG will be discussing the methods applied to the ACS data for the CTPP production. http://apdu.org/events/webinars/ Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning

10 years, 7 months

FW: 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data tables and microdata release

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Hi Everyone - I know that some of you are interested in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), especially as it includes information on vehicle ownership, maintenance costs. The geographic level is large, as the sample is small. In the CEX microdata, the (residence) geography includes: region, state, CMSA, urban/rural status, and population size of the area. Vehicle data include: make, model year, purchase date and price Costs includes: fuel, purchase costs, lease costs, auto rentals, insurance, state registrations, prop taxes on vehicles, and other costs (e.g cost of repairs, tolls, veh inspection cots). The unit of measurement in the CEX is a "consumer unit" which is interchangeably called a "household." It is an individual or group of individuals who live together and make joint expenditure decisions. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 (in Seattle) From: Ryan, Jay - BLS [mailto:Ryan.Jay@bls.gov] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:05 AM Subject: 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data tables and microdata release I am pleased to announce that the 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data tables and microdata will be released today-our earliest release date ever. The news release is posted here<http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm>. The tables and public-use microdata will be posted later today. The 2012 CE public-use microdata are available on the web at no charge. The 2007 - 2011 public-use microdata files are also on the web and we plan to post earlier years back to 1996 (all the years available as SAS datasets) over the coming year as program resources are available. Earlier years can still be purchased on CD. We have discontinued the public-use microdata e-mail distribution list. In order to continue to receive updates on data releases, errata (affecting past and future data), and special announcements, you need to sign up for the new email notification here<https://subscriptions.bls.gov/accounts/USDOLBLS/subscriber/new>. Spending in 2012 was up 3.5%, which is more than twice as much as the 1.7-percent increase in prices for goods and services during the same period as measured by the CPI-U. Item 2010 2011 2012 Percent Change 2010-2011 Percent Change 2011-2012 Average annual expenditures $48,109 $49,705 $51,442 3.3 3.5 Income before taxes $62,481 $63,685 $65,596 1.9 3.0 As always, we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the CE or the Gemini survey redesign. If you would like to be dropped from this biannual email let me know. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns: Phone - (202) 691- 6900 Email - cexinfo(a)bls.gov<mailto:cexinfo@bls.gov> ___________________________ Jay Ryan, Chief Division of Consumer Expenditure Survey Bureau of Labor Statistics Washington, DC 20212 http://www.bls.gov/cex ___________________________

10 years, 7 months

Survey to Inform Research and Tools on Uncertainty in ACS Data

by Amy Louise Griffin

Hi CTPPers, Brian McKenzie from the Census Bureau suggested that I contact this list-serv to ask if you would help us with some research we are doing. Several colleagues and I from Colorado University at Boulder and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville are working on building tools and experimenting with visualization to deal with uncertainty in the ACS. Our team is conducting a survey to help guide our work. The survey is designed primarily for planners, but they we also interested in the opinions of other practitioners, policymakers, and researchers who work with ACS data. It would be great if you can spare a few minutes to help our work. The survey will take 15-20 minutes, but some people complete it more quickly than that. If you are interested in helping us out, you can access the survey from this link: http://www.surveys.unsw.edu.au/f/157714/4e21/ We'd be very grateful if you can spare the time to help us understand your needs. Sincerely, The Mapping Uncertainty in ACS Data Research Team ________________________________ THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES UNSW CANBERRA AT THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE ACADEMY PO Box 7916, CANBERRA BC 2610, Australia Web: http://unsw.adfa.edu.au CRICOS Provider no. 00100G This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and are not necessarily the views of UNSW.

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