HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES 07 CENSUS FUNDING; SIPP FUNDS PARTIALLY
RESTORED
The House Appropriations Committee today approved a spending bill that
funds 2007 Census Bureau activities at nearly the level requested by
President Bush. The $59.84 billion Science, State, Justice and Commerce
Appropriations bill (not yet numbered) includes $874 million for the
Census Bureau, roughly $4 million less than the Administrations request
but about $72 million more than current year funding.
The committee allocated $694.092 million for Periodic Censuses and
Programs (Periodics), the amount requested by the President. The bill
fully funds the American Community Survey (ACS) at about $180 million
for Fiscal Year 2007, which starts October 1, 2006. The Periodics
account also includes funding for the 2007 Economic Census.
The second main Census Bureau account, Salaries and Expenses (S & E),
received $190.067 million, compared to the Administrations proposed
funding level of $184.1 million. The President, however, did not seek
funds to continue the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP),
a longitudinal survey used by many analysts to study the relationship
between income, poverty, and government assistance programs. Rep. Jose
Serrano (D-NY) successfully offered an amendment to add $10 million to
the S & E account for the purpose of continuing the SIPP until the
Census Bureau develops an alternative data collection program. The
funding bill directs the bureau to spend a total of $19.2 million to
continue the SIPP; that amount assumes the availability of $9.2 million
the Administration requested to phase out and begin redesigning the
SIPP. The survey costs roughly $39 million to administer this year, and
it is unclear how the lower funding level (if it remains in the final
bill) would affect the scope of the survey. The Serrano amendment moved
money from the Justice Departments general administration account and
from diplomatic and consular programs at the State Department to fund
the SIPP.
Census Bureau funding could be vulnerable to amendments seeking money
for other programs when the full House considers the Science, State,
Justice and Commerce appropriations bill next week. The Periodic
Censuses and Programs account is one of the few in the massive spending
bill to receive both a significant increase over Fiscal Year 2006 and
the full amount of funding the Administration proposed. Last year, the
House appropriations panel allocated $45 million less than the Bush
Administration requested for the Census Bureau. An amendment on the
House floor offered by Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) shifted another $20
million, including $10 million from 2010 census planning, from the
bureau to community policing and anti-drug programs within the Justice
Department.
Brookings to host second congressional census briefing: The Brookings
Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, will host its second
Capitol Hill briefing on June 23 to educate congressional staff and
other stakeholders about the importance of census data. Better Data
for Better Decisions: Why the American Community Survey Is Important for
the Nation will be held from 9:00 11:30 AM in Room 2154 Rayburn House
Office Building. Speakers include staff from the Census Bureau and the
House census oversight subcommittee, as well as data users from the
Rural Policy Research Institute, JC Penney, and the Heritage Foundation.
The first briefing, The Road to the 2010 Census: Implications for
Apportionment, Redistricting, and the Economy, took place in April. If
you have questions about these briefings, please contact Lindsay Clark
at lclark(a)brookings.edu.
More census news coming soon: The next Census News Brief, planned for
next week, will include information on a recent Senate hearing examining
the cost of the 2010 census; legislation to exclude undocumented
residents from census apportionment counts; and significant policy
developments related to 2010 census preparations and operations.
Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent
consultant in Washington, DC, with support from The Annie E. Casey
Foundation and other organizations. Ms. Lowenthal is also a consultant
to The Census Project, sponsored by the Communications Consortium Media
Center. All views expressed in the News Briefs are solely those of the
author. 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.
--
Ed Christopher
FHWA Resource Center
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (v) 708-283-3501 (f)
708-574-8131 (cell)
Kendra:
The two Census 2000 datasets, SF3 and CTPP Part 1, are derived from the
same set of Census 2000 long form raw data, so they really should show
the same patterns (households by household income) at the region,
county, tract, block group and TAZ level. The SF3 (Summary File #3)
definitely does NOT have TAZ-level tabulations, but it sounds like you
have a process to use census block groups to aggregate/disaggregate into
your TAZ structure.
The SF3 table P-52 provides data by 17 income categories, ranging from
"less than 5,000" to "$200,000 or more".
The CTPP Part 1, Table 64, provides data by 25 income categories (+1
category for "total households) also ranging from < $5,000, to "$150,000
or more". The CTPP has better details in income categories less than
$50,000, in increments of $2,500. This compares to SF3 which increments
income categories by $5,000 ranges. So, if you really wanted to have
data on "households less than $27,500" then you should use the CTPP.
The other major benefit of the CTPP is that these detailed household
income categories are cross-classfiied by various other variables,
including person in household (Table -64), the number of workers in
household (Table 1-66), and by the number of vehicles in the household
(Table 1-67). These are valuable if you are examining very small area
geography information for possible cross-classification travel models,
say, shop/other trips (or tours) by household size by income level,
etc.
The major "cost" of using the CTPP is the independent rounding of cell
values inflicted on the part 1 tables. So, the sum of the households by
the 25 income categories may not precisely match the "total households"
also provided in the same CTPP table. This is an annoyance, but can be
overcome by normalizing (adjusting) the CTPP cell values to either match
the "CTPP total households" value, or the "SF3 total households" which
are not subject to the rounding nonsense.
My recommendation would be to use the CTPP, and then normalize the CTPP
tables to the SF1 precise count of households for your TAZ. This means
you need a precise correspondence file of blocks-to-TAZ, so that you can
"roll-up" the SF1 counts of 100% short form data (total pop, household
pop, households, pop by race/ethnicity/age/sex) to your TAZes.
Note that neither the SF1 or SF3 files were subjected to the rounding
rules. This means that the numbers should always add up precisely to the
same number.
Hope this helps,
Chuck Purvis, MTC - SF Bay Area
>>> "Kendra Watkins" <kwatkins(a)mrcog-nm.gov> 06/01/06 3:02 PM >>>
I am compiling income data for our region at the TAZ level and have 2
sources to choose from, the CTPP TAZ income data by place of residence
or the SF3 block group income data modified to fit our DASZ structure.
I
wonder if I could get some thoughts on which source might best
represent
a 2000 snapshot by TAZ.
Thank you,
Kendra
Kendra Watkins
Senior Data Analyst
Mid-Region Council of Governments
809 Copper Ave. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 724-3601
kwatkins(a)mrcog-nm.gov
See weblink below for a job opening at a metro planning agency in the
eastern US.
http://www.triplew.org/notices.htm
Sam Granato
Ohio DOT, Office of Technical Services
1980 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43223
Phone: 614-644-6796, Fax: 614-752-8646
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert
Schweitzer
I am compiling income data for our region at the TAZ level and have 2
sources to choose from, the CTPP TAZ income data by place of residence
or the SF3 block group income data modified to fit our DASZ structure. I
wonder if I could get some thoughts on which source might best represent
a 2000 snapshot by TAZ.
Thank you,
Kendra
Kendra Watkins
Senior Data Analyst
Mid-Region Council of Governments
809 Copper Ave. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 724-3601
kwatkins(a)mrcog-nm.gov
You can look at an analysis of northern and central NJ county-to-county
commuting patterns and trends from 1980 to 2000 at:
http://www.njtpa.org/planning/census2000/2000JTWAnalysis2.pdf (a 2.2 MB
PDF file)
Sincerely,
Keith Miller
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Keith Miller
Manager: GIS and Forecasting
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, Inc.
One Newark Center, 17th floor
Newark, NJ 07102
973-639-8444 phone
973-639-1953 fax
kmiller(a)njtpa.org
-----Original Message-----
From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net
[mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of
TMarchwinski(a)njtransit.com
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 3:31 PM
To: edc(a)berwyned.com; ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
Cc: Mluebbers(a)oki.org
Subject: RE: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections
We looked at county commuting patterns from 1980 to 2000 for Northern NJ
(including to NY), and once tried to use trends to establish new
forecasts, the problem we ran into was the growth in inter-county trips
was so high in many cases, that if you just extrapolated the trends you
wound up with non-sensical intra-county commuting trips, to the point
that some counties had only 20% or 25% of their work trips intracounty.
WE had to modify this on a case by case basis, and established a floor
below which intracounty commuting would not fall below. That was using
1980-2000 as a basis. I really think this is a case by case analyis
based on each metropolitan area. In my opnion you really need to look
at results and not wholly use trends, and going back to 1970 may not
make sense given it was so different and pre 1973 with oil prices.
-----Original Message-----
From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net
[mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:27 PM
To: ctpp-news maillist
Cc: Mary Luebbers
Subject: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections
I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone
can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important
question.
Mary Luebbers wrote:
> Ed:
> To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county
> commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data
> and its precursors)?
>
> Thanks.
> Mary S. Luebbers
> OKI Regional Council of Governments
>
Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't
done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any
projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that
does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some
insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow
better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress..
.While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I
have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there?
Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim
Soot (March 2003) http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf
Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by
Todd Steiss (August 2003)
http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf
Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern
California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003)
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
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In mid-April, Clara Reschovsky left her position here at the Census Bureau
to take a job with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. It
has come to our attention, however, that email addressed to her at the
Census Bureau is still going through as though it is being delivered
normally. Therefore, if anyone has sent Clara email since about April 12,
2006 it is sitting, unread, in her email account. Nanda Srinivasan at FHWA
is still the first point of contact for CTPP support, but any future
inquiries you would normally have sent to Clara should instead be addressed
to me at phillip.a.salopek(a)census.gov. Clara did a terrific job for us here
at the Bureau and we were sorry to see her go, but we wish her all the best
at MWCOG. If you have a chance to talk to her in her new position, make
sure you tell her how much you enjoyed working with her on the CTPP.
Thanks.
--Phil Salopek
We all know that there are lots of commercial vendors hawking census
data products. While I would not like to see this list turn in to a
vendor free-for-all I thought this class taught by Cynthia Taeuber was
somehow different. FYI...
--------
Subject: Online Course: Using the Census's American Community Survey
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:36:09 -0400
From: Cynthia Taeuber <cmtaeuber(a)direcway.com>
To: cmtaeuber(a)direcway.com
I am going to teach a 4-week on-line course about the American Community
Survey starting May 19. The announcement from statistics.com, the
company
that sponsors it, describes the course below. I wrote materials for the
course. http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/census/index.html
--------
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
The latest issues of the "CTPP Status Report" newsletter is now posted
at http://www.TRBcensus.com
The direct link is http://www.TRBcensus.com/newsltr/sr0406.pdf
In this issue are several articles using census data for transit planing
as well as an update on some potential changes to block groups and
tracts.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
We looked at county commuting patterns from 1980 to 2000 for Northern NJ (including to NY), and once tried to use trends to establish new forecasts, the problem we ran into was the growth in inter-county trips was so high in many cases, that if you just extrapolated the trends you wound up with non-sensical intra-county commuting trips, to the point that some counties had only 20% or 25% of their work trips intracounty. WE had to modify this on a case by case basis, and established a floor below which intracounty commuting would not fall below. That was using 1980-2000 as a basis. I really think this is a case by case analyis based on each metropolitan area. In my opnion you really need to look at results and not wholly use trends, and going back to 1970 may not make sense given it was so different and pre 1973 with oil prices.
-----Original Message-----
From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:27 PM
To: ctpp-news maillist
Cc: Mary Luebbers
Subject: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections
I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important question.
Mary Luebbers wrote:
> Ed:
> To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county
> commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data
> and its precursors)?
>
> Thanks.
> Mary S. Luebbers
> OKI Regional Council of Governments
>
Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress.. .While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there?
Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim Soot (March 2003) http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf
Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by Todd Steiss (August 2003) http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf
Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003) http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
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I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone
can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important
question.
Mary Luebbers wrote:
> Ed:
> To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county
> commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data
> and its precursors)?
>
> Thanks.
> Mary S. Luebbers
> OKI Regional Council of Governments
>
Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't
done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any
projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that
does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some
insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow
better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress..
.While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I
have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there?
Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim
Soot (March 2003)
http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf
Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by
Todd Steiss (August 2003)
http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf
Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern
California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003)
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
