American Community Survey
2007 American Community Survey Characteristics Data â On Sept. 23, the
Census Bureau will release 2007 data on social, economic, housing and
demographic characteristics. These data cover topics ranging from
language
to education, from family size to work commute, and are available for
more
than 7,000 areas, including all congressional districts as well as
counties, cities, metro areas and American Indian and Alaska Native
areas
of 65,000 population or more.
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/index.html
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
First, let me introduce everyone in the CTPP community to Ms. Liang
Long. Liang has her PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago, so
she is really Dr. Long, but we will not be formal here! Liang is now
working part-time on CTPP, as contractor to FHWA from Cambridge
Systematics, as was Nanda Srinivasan. Liang will have my OLD phone
number 202-366-6971 at the USDOT building in Washington, D.C. The major
part of this job is to provide technical assistance on CTPP. Her email
address is Liang.Long(a)dot.gov
Since Nandu's departure from the CTPP program last November, I picked up
a bunch of the tech support calls. Some of the recent questions have
been on data from 1960! I found that the CB has scanned a lot of the
printed material. I asked my friends at the Univ of Washington which is
a government repository library to identify the TABLE NUMBERS from the
printed reports to make it easier to find transportation and "journey to
work" items in the scanned materials.
HISTORIC FILES from decennial Census "long form"
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm
Hope this information might be useful to you!
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning (Wash DC)
-----Original Message-----
From: Eleanor Chase [mailto:echase@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:00 PM
To: Murakami, Elaine
Subject: journey to work table numbers
In the printed volumes there are separate subject reports on journey to
work, generally v.2, pt 6 (with various subletters) for 60, 70 and 80
For the US summary volume
1960 General Social and Economic Characteristics tables 94, 136, 302,
303
1970 tables 87, 242, 243 US summary; 87, 98 urban/rural; 109
metro/nonmetro; 132, 137 regions; 151, 152 regions, divisions & states;
363, 364 SMSA
1980 tables 101, 122, 132, 142, 152, 161, 167, 174 US summary; 101, 112,
122, 132 urban /rural; 101, 112, 142, 152 inside/outside SMSAs; 185,
196,
205 regions; 238 states
In the Washington state volumes (and the table numbers should hold true
for other states)
1960 table 64 state; 72 SMSA and places 10K+; 131 SMSA 100K+; 82
counties
1970 tables 50, 61 191 state; 82, 190 SMSA and places 50K+; 72
metro/nonmetro; 102 is place of work for places less than 50K
1980 Chapter C tables 65, 75, 85, 94, 100, 107 state; 75, 85
urban/rural;
118, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151 SMSA and places 50K+; 156, 162 places
10K-50K; 166 places 2.5K-10K; 174, 183 Counties 193 American Indian
Reservations
Remember that a lot of these multiple tables will break by race and
ancestry groups in 1980, but the first table is usually the basic totals
Eleanor and Hilary
University of Washington Library
Government Documents
If you are not aware of the ACS release schedule...
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [acs-alert] American Community Survey Alert, Number 57
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:26:48 -0400
From: cheryl.v.chambers(a)census.gov
To: acs-alert(a)lists.census.gov
American Community Survey Alert, Number 57
(released August 20, 2008)
News in this Alert
* A New Look for the ACS Website
** A Look Ahead â The First 2007 ACS Data
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* A New Look for the ACS Website
The Census Bureau today released the first of several planned changes to
the ACS Website. The redesign, implemented in part as a response to
numerous requests from data users and stakeholders, includes a
streamlined main page where information is logically grouped allowing
users to find what they are seeking more quickly and efficiently.
A 2007 ACS Data Release page will feature the full 2007 ACS data release
schedule and offer clearly-marked sections directing users to data
products and guidance on making comparisons, information on using the
2007 data, and what's new for 2007. Users should find it easier to
navigate the ACS Website and to locate and access the information they
need.
The updated Website may be viewed at: http://www.census.gov/acs.
____________________________________________________________
** A Look Ahead--The First 2007 ACS Data
The Census Bureau will release income, poverty, and earnings data from
the 2007 ACS, in conjunction with the Census Bureau's annual release of
income, poverty, and health insurance data from the Annual Social and
Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey on August 26,
2008. The second release of 2007 ACS data will occur on September 23.
The first set of three-year estimates for data collected between 2005
and 2007 will be released in December. These include the first ACS
estimates for areas with populations between 20,000 and 64,999.
____________________________________________________________
acs-alert mailing list
acs-alert(a)lists.census.gov
http://lists.census.gov/mailman/listinfo/acs-alert
Michael:
Short answer: very well.
Long answer:
The wording on the ACS vehicle availability question is identical to
the Census 2000 question. It's placement in the ACS is between the two
housing utility questions (plumbing/kitchen/telephone facilities, and
home heating), so these are all the "easy" housing questions before one
has to answer the "difficult" housing questions (e.g., how much is spent
on x, y, and z....)
We've done some county and regional level tabulations of our region's
auto ownership patterns, from 1960 to 2006, and the trends do make good
sense at both the regional and county level. There are some
ups-and-downs in the county-level zero vehicle shares, comparing 2000 to
2005 to 2006, but these may not be statistically significant. (We
published this data, released in I believe September 2007, for a
November 2007 regional workshop, url:
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/)
Our regional share of zero-vehicle households has declined from 19.7%
in 1960, to 15.8% in 1970; 12.2% in 1980; 10.5% in 1990; 10.0% in 2000;
and then 9.5% in 2005, and 9.2% in 2006. This is for the nine-county San
Francisco Bay Area.
For San Francisco City, the zero-vehicle household share has decreased
from 42.1% in 1960; 39.6% in 1970; 34.6% in 1980; 30.7% in 1990; 28.6%
in 2000; and then with the ACS: 31.3% in 2005, but dropping back to
28.6% in 2006 (same as 2000).
So, we're anxiously awaiting the 2007 annual ACS data that's scheduled
for released next month and September, and then the 3-year period
estimates (2005-2007) expected this December. The challenge will be how
to analyze and report all of this data in a timely manner, all the while
trying to do our "regular jobs."....The other challenge: do we just
report the estimates WITHOUT their standard errors necessary in
understanding the year-to-year, or period-to-period difference; or do we
take the EXTRA time needed to report the estimates WITH the standard
errors (adding, or perhaps "delaying" the reporting of the results by
say 3 to 6 months?
Chuck
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Charles L. Purvis, AICP
Principal Transportation Planner/Analyst
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607-4700
(510) 817-5755 (office)
(510) 817-7848 (fax)
cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov (e-mail)
www: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/
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>>> Michael.Cline(a)utsa.edu 07/28/08 7:38 AM >>>
Chuck (or others),
In your opinion, how well do you think ACS is estimating Zero Vehicle
Households? (or conversely household vehicle ownership?)
Michael E. Cline
Research Associate
Institute for Demographic & Socioeconomic Research
The University of Texas at San Antonio
1 UTSA Circle
BB 4.06.10
San Antonio, TX 78249-0704
(210)458-6537 f(210)458-6541
michael.cline(a)utsa.edu
http://idser.utsa.edu
I will be out of the office starting 07/28/2008 and will not return until 09/01/2008.
I am out of the office indefinitely at this time. Please contact Janette Lawson ext. 6855 or Kathleen Thompson ext. 6841for assistance.
The current issue of ESRI's ArcUser magazine has yet another article in
a very good series by the ESRI chief demographer, Lynn Wombold. It's
available online at:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0708/demoarticle.html
"Examining Error: Consider the Effect of Sample Size and Error Source
when using census data." ArcUser magazine, spring 2008, pp. 8-11.
Chuck
Here's Elaine's link to the winter 2008 article:
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Charles L. Purvis, AICP
Principal Transportation Planner/Analyst
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607-4700
(510) 817-5755 (office)
(510) 817-7848 (fax)
cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov (e-mail)
www: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/
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>>> "Murakami, Elaine" <Elaine.Murakami(a)fhwa.dot.gov> 05/06/08 2:42 PM
>>>
For a nice article on ACS sampling, please see:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0408/samplesize.html
Sample Size Matters: Caveats for users of ACS tabulations by Lynn
Wombold, ESRI Chief Demographer
ArcUser Winter 2008 pps 9-11
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning
206-220-4460
I will be on vacation @ noon Monday, July 21, 2008 and will return Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
Should you have any questions, please contact Kaye Schultz or Jannis Corley @ (989) 790-5267.
Sincrerely,
Laura McClean
Commissioner Aide
Saginaw County Board of Commissioners
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Saginaw, MI 48602
Ph: (989) 790-5268
Fax: (989) 790-5569
