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by ed christopher

by now the world is a buzz looking at the federal register notice listing the urbanized areas. thanks to nandu srinivasan for passing along the pdf file. Chuck Purvis has also posted the PDF on his agencies ftp site at ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/census2000/urbanized/ if you want an html version it can be found at http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/ (then click on "today's table of contents" and look under census bureau) the site is extremely busy so you may have to try a few times. What is posted so far are whole urbanized areas. bob lamacchia of the census bureau tells me they "will" be posting the numbers for the (state) parts of urbanized areas on their web site at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/ua_2k.html they are getting the website together and expect to have it up very soon. -- Ed Christopher Metropolitan Activities Midwest Resource Center Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-283-3501 (F)

22 years, 8 months

Federal Register Notice on Urbanized Areas

by Nanda Srinivasan

Attached is the Federal Register Notice providing a list of urbanied areas based on results of Census 2000. It was published in the Federal Register today (May 1, 2002). Nanda Srinivasan

22 years, 8 months

May 1 ― Fed Reg notice on Urbanized Areas

by Elaine Murakami

INFORMATION BELOW PROVIDED BY CENSUS BUREAU: The Census Bureau's official announcement of the Census 2000 urbanized areas and urban clusters will appear in the Federal Register on Wednesday, May 1. This notice will include a listing of all Census 2000 urbanized areas and their populations. In addition, there will be links to web pages that contain tables that list the urban clusters and their populations, and also separate tables that provide lists of urbanized areas and urban clusters by state with their state populations. The notice includes specific information about new urbanized areas, 1990 urbanized areas that were combined, 1990 urbanized areas that were split, 1990 urbanized areas that have had significant changes, and 1990 urbanized areas that have had name changes. Census 2000 UA TIGER/Line files should be available for download from the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line web page this week, but may not be available on Wednesday.

22 years, 8 months

Census 2000 Initiative News Alert (long post)

by ed christopher

From: "Census2000" <census2000(a)ccmc.org> Statistical Adjustment Unlikely in Future, Census Director Says: Plus: Census Advisory Committee Meetings; Supreme Court; Hears Utah Imputation Case; Legal Fights Over Adjusted Data Continue; Appropriations Update; and more Future Use of Statistical Adjustment In Doubt: The debate over census adjustment continued to generate controversy on Capitol Hill, six months after the Census Bureau announced it would not use results from the 2000 census Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) survey to adjust census data used for non-political purposes, such as allocating federal program funds. Census Bureau Director C. Louis Kincannon said in an interview with The Washington Post (April 17, 2002) that statistical methods developed over the past 20 years to improve the accuracy of the direct count have not solved the problem, have not [improved] the results of the best census that we can do. Mr. Kincannon went on to say that the bureau must look at either a different method or perhaps modified objectives to see what we can do as part of the early planning for 2010. The Post reported that senior agency officials have concluded that they cannot produce adjusted census numbers, based on a coverage evaluation survey, in time to issue detailed population data to the states for redistricting one year after Census Day (the legal deadline). Last month, a senior Census Bureau statistician told the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the 2000 Census that the A.C.E. survey was better operationally than the 1990 coverage measurement survey, but that it missed scientifically by a factor of ten. Dr. Howard Hogan said proper reporting of residence (e.g. where people should be counted) was a significant problem with the 2000 quality check procedure; evaluations found that respondents often report living at the place they are interviewed, which may be different from the residence they reported during the census. Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Service, Census, and Agency Organization, applauded the bureaus decision to focus on improving census accuracy through enhanced traditional counting methods. For decades now the Census Bureau has spent millions and millions of tax dollars on developing a failed program that has never been used for its intended purpose. Fiscally, operationally and legally, this is the responsible course to take, Rep. Weldon told the Post. But Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the former senior Democrat on the Subcommittee on the Census during the 2000 count, said that Mr. Kincannons statement may be good politics, but it is lousy science. She criticized the Bush Administration for trying to cement plans for the 2010 census without completing the evaluations of the 2000 census. Since 1980, the Census Bureau has fielded a quality-check survey following the direct count, to measure undercounts (people missed) and overcounts (people counted twice or included erroneously) and to provide a basis for adjusting the numbers. In 1990, then-bureau director Barbara Everitt Bryant recommended using the post enumeration survey (PES) results to adjust the census, after the survey revealed the highest recorded differential undercount of racial minorities. Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher overruled Dr. Bryant, and the 1990 census numbers were not adjusted. In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled in a case (Glavin v. Clinton) brought by the Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation that federal law barred the use of sampling methods to derive the state population totals used for congressional apportionment. The Census Bureau fielded a 172,000 housing unit A.C.E. survey in Census 2000, in the hopes of improving census data used for non-apportionment purposes. But in March 2001, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans decided not to adjust the counts sent to the states for redistricting, saying the bureau did not have time to fully evaluate inconsistencies between A.C.E. results and an independent demographic analysis population estimate. Last October, Acting Bureau Director William Barron said further research fouond three million more duplicates in the census than the A.C.E. survey had detected, making the results unusable for adjustment. The Washington Post article said agency officials believe that a quality-check survey following the door-to-door census count would be used in the future to measure accuracy but not to adjust the numbers. Census Bureau Issues New 2000 Undercount Estimates: The Census Bureau has revised its estimates of net undercount for Census 2000. The new preliminary revised figures are based on further analysis of the three million additional duplicates (called erroneous enumerations) that the A.C.E. survey did not measure, leading to the bureaus October 2001 decision not to adjust the census for non-political purposes. The revised estimates were calculated for seven race and Hispanic origin groupings used in the A.C.E. process. (The first revised estimates, issued last fall, included undercount rates only for three groupings. The bureau considers the original A.C.E. undercount rates, released in March 2001, to be flawed, and displays them only for comparison purposes.) The new analysis shows a net overcount for Whites (which includes Some Other Race) and Asians. The net undercount of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and of American Indians and Alaska Natives, is substantial. The undercount rates for African Americans and Hispanics are unchanged from October. In a April 4, 2002, memorandum, Census Bureau staff described the latest calculations as a candidate explanation for the discrepancies between the A.C.E. estimates and demographic analysis. The additional research also shows the persistence of a differential undercount between Whites and minority groups, the staff said. Last summer, the bureau reported that Whites accounted for 82 percent of the duplicates the A.C.E. would have eliminated (had there been an adjustment); the explanation of the revised estimates does not include the race and ethnic distribution of the additional three million duplicates. Census Advisory Committees To Meet: The Census Bureaus race, ethnic, and decennial census advisory committees will meet next week at the agencys Suitland, Maryland headquarters. The committees will receive briefings on Census 2000 data dissemination, the American Community Survey, and the status of 2010 census planning, including content determination, reaching linguistically isolated households, enumerating American Indian reservations, counting overseas Americans, response options, and other important operational issues. All proceedings are open to the public. The five Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees will meet jointly from April 29 May 1. The committees represent the African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander populations. The meeting runs from 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m. on April 29, 9:00 a.m. 5:45 p.m. on April 30, and 9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. on May 1. The committees will hold separate, concurrent sessions during the afternoon of April 29 and the morning of May 1. The Decennial Census Advisory Committee will meet on May 2 from 8:45 a.m. 5:30 p.m., and on May 3 from 8:45 a.m. 1:45 p.m. Census Bureau headquarters is located at 4700 Silver Hill Road in Suitland, MD. The meetings will take place in Federal Office Building #3, Francis Amasa Walker Conference Center. Legal update: On March 18, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal district court in Los Angeles to reconsider its ruling in favor of Democratic lawmakers who sued under an obscure 1928 statute (dubbed the seven-Member rule) for access to the A.C.E.-adjusted Census 2000 numbers. In papers asking the court to reverse its earlier decision, the USDOJ said the issue is a political dispute between the legislative and executive branches over access to information that did not belong in the courts. Sixteen members of the House Committee on Government Reform, led by senior Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA), took the Commerce Department (the Census Bureaus parent agency) to court last spring, after the department refused to release the adjusted data. In January, Judge Lourdes Baird ruled in favor of the congressional plaintiffs, writing that, the plain language (of the statute) mandates that the secretary release the adjusted data. Late last month, the judge denied the Justice Departments request to vacate the original order; the government is now considering an appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On March 27, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Utah, et al. v. Donald Evans, Secretary of Commerce, et al. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson defended the Census Bureaus use of imputation, and distinguished it from statistical adjustment based on a post-census survey. The provision of law under which the Court prohibited adjustment refers only to sampling methods. The Court is expected to issue a decision before its current term ends in early July. Appropriations update: The U.S. House and Senate have completed their overall budget blueprints for fiscal year 2003 (FY03), clearing the way for appropriators to recommend specific spending levels for federal agencies and programs. While non-binding, the budget resolutions set spending priorities for the 13 regular appropriations accounts. The Census Bureau is funded through the Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. House and Senate members did not meet to iron out differences between their respective bills. The House budget resolution recommends $759 billion in new discretionary spending, with slightly less than half set aside for non-defense related programs. The Senates version allocates $795 billion in new discretionary spending. (Discretionary spending refers to non-mandatory federal programs; examples of mandatory federal payments are social security and federal/military retirement benefits.) Last November, a diverse group of census stakeholders, under the auspices of the Census 2000 Initiative, wrote to senior congressional Democrats and Republicans on committees that oversee and fund Census Bureau activities, expressing support for continued development and adequate funding of the American Community Survey. The stakeholders also encouraged prompt resolution of several design and operational concerns, including effective outreach and promotion, content determination, and adequate sample size. The letter is posted on the Initiatives web site at www.census2000.org. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to Terri Ann Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at <terriann2k(a)aol.com>. For copies of previous News Alerts and other information, use our web site www.census2000.org. Please direct all requests to receive News Alerts, and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census 2000 Initiative at <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> or 202/326-8700. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals. -- Ed Christopher Metropolitan Activities Midwest Resource Center Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-283-3501 (F)

22 years, 8 months

Re: [CTPP] Washington Post article on Director Kincannon

by Sam.Granato＠dot.state.oh.us

The URL sent earlier is a dead end, but the collection of Census stories during the Year 2000 still on the Washington Post website at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/socialpolicy/census200… should be reminding us why the Long Form is likely to become history. It was quite clearly becoming a problem for response rates to the decennial Census in general and the Bureau's first priority of getting the population count right. The quality/response rates of future ACS data may not be as good as what we were used to from the Long Form, but we are customers of the short form data, too. And the population head count at any level of geography is (I would imagine for most if not all of us) the Census data item least replaceable from secondary sources . Sam Granato Ohio DOT, Office of Technical Services 1980 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43223 Phone: 614-644-6796, Fax: 614-752-8646 "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office." Robert Frost ed christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> Sent by: owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net 04/08/02 07:51 PM To: ctpp-news maillist <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> cc: Subject: [CTPP] Washington Post article on Director Kincannon Chuck Purvis alerted me this in today's post. It gives a good summary of where a variety of items stand between Congress and the Census Bureau. Thanks for alerting me to the article Chuck. Chuck Purvis wrote: > Interesting article about the new director of the Census Bureau, Louis > Kincannon, in today's Washington Post: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-d > n/A10678-2002Apr7?language=printer > > Note that in the first few paragraphs we learn that Mr. Kincannon was > a zero-car household while living in Paris, and cut his commute time > in half by moving from Loudoun County to Paris. So, > transportation-related statistics from the Census are relevant!

22 years, 9 months

Washington Post article on Director Kincannon

by ed christopher

Chuck Purvis alerted me this in today's post. It gives a good summary of where a variety of items stand between Congress and the Census Bureau. Thanks for alerting me to the article Chuck. Chuck Purvis wrote: > Interesting article about the new director of the Census Bureau, Louis > Kincannon, in today's Washington Post: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-d > n/A10678-2002Apr7?language=printer > > Note that in the first few paragraphs we learn that Mr. Kincannon was > a zero-car household while living in Paris, and cut his commute time > in half by moving from Loudoun County to Paris. So, > transportation-related statistics from the Census are relevant!

22 years, 9 months

Census 2000 Initiative News Alert

by ed christopher

Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:45:05 -0500 From: "Census2000" <census2000(a)ccmc.org> Kincannon Confirmed As New Census Director; Annual Funding Process Starts In Congress; Plus: New House Panel To Oversee Census; New GAO Report; and more. The U.S. Senate last week confirmed Mr. C. Louis Kincannon to be director of the Census Bureau. The unanimous vote on March 13 came two weeks after the Committee on Governmental Affairs held a hearing to consider the nomination. Mr. Kincannon was the agencys deputy director from 1982 to 1992, and twice served as acting director during that time. He has also held senior positions at the Office of Management and Budget and Commerce Department. Most recently, Mr. Kincannon was the first chief statistician for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France, a position he held until June 2000. President Bush nominated Mr. Kincannon to head the Census Bureau last November. At the February 28th confirmation hearing, committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Ranking Minority Member Fred Thompson (R-TN) warmly welcomed Mr. Kincannon and indicated their general support for his nomination. Sen. George Allen (R-VA), from Mr. Kincannons home state, and Rep. Tom Sawyer (D-OH), former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population, introduced the nominee to the panel. The nominee told panel members he hoped to build on the success of Census 2000 through implementation of the American Community Survey (ACS), improvements in geographic tools, and cooperation with stakeholders. Mr. Kincannon also highlighted the importance of recruiting and retaining qualified staff. In response to a question from Chairman Lieberman about using statistical methods to address the census undercount, Mr. Kincannon said adjustment techniques are feasible and sound for larger areas (such as states and, possibly, large counties and cities), but not for the level of detail used in redistricting. Whether statistically adjusted numbers are sufficiently accurate, he said, depends on the purpose for which they would be used. Senator Thompson, noting that he had received constituent complaints, asked how the Census Bureau would justify the American Community Survey. Mr. Kincannon replied that the agency must highlight the benefit of more timely data to local governments, and keep Congress and the media informed about the surveys progress. Earlier this month, William G. Barron, the bureaus acting director since January 2001, said he would retire this summer after a 34-year civil service career. He has accepted a one-year appointment to teach at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mr. Barron became deputy director of the Census Bureau in May 1999, after helping to oversee planning for Census 2000 as deputy under secretary of commerce for economic affairs. Mr. Barron also was deputy commissioner of the Bureau for Labor Statistics for 15 years. FY03 Appropriations Process Begins: House and Senate appropriators have begun the annual process of considering federal agency funding for the next fiscal year, which begins October 1. In his budget request for fiscal year 2003 (FY03), President Bush requested $737 million for the Census Bureau, an increase of $223 million over current year funding. The request includes $291 million to reengineer the census process for 2010. Roughly $124 million of that amount is for nationwide implementation of the American Community Survey in 2003. In its first full year, the survey would not cover group quarters, such as college dormitories, military barracks, prisons, and nursing homes. In addition, FY03 includes only nine months of follow-up visits to unresponsive households (January September 2003), making it likely that the future full-year cost for the ACS would be higher. The Census Bureau hopes to eliminate the traditional long form from the 2010 census and replace it with updated annual data from the ACS. Current year funding for the ACS is $56 million, which covers 31 test sites and continuation of the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS), a national sample of 750,000 housing units. Cost estimates submitted to Congress last year pegged first-year (FY03) funding at $131 million. In testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies on February 27, and again before the counterpart Senate Appropriations subcommittee on March 13, Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans said the proposed budget increase primarily would support reengineering and reducing costs of the decennial census, and improving timeliness and coverage of economic statistics (as well as peak-year activities for the 2002 Economic Censuses). It is very difficult to make wise policy decisions that affect millions of lives if you dont have timely, accurate information, Secretary Evans told lawmakers. The census reform initiative also includes modernizing the Master Address File and digital geographic database (called the TIGER system), and early planning, development, and testing of a short form-only 2010 census. Funding for the decennial census and the ACS is part of the Periodic Censuses and Programs ("Periodics") account, one of two primary funding categories for the Census Bureau. The Periodics account covers activities that support census operations, such as mapping and address list development, as well as other mandated censuses of business establishments and local governments. The total FY03 request for the Periodics account is $522.4 million. The second main funding category, Salaries and Expenses (S & E), covers ongoing surveys (such as the Current Population Survey) to collect important demographic, economic, and social data. The President proposed $215.2 million for the S & E account. New House Census Oversight panel: Oversight responsibility for the census and other Census Bureau programs has shifted to a new House of Representatives panel, after the former Subcommittee on the Census closed its doors last December. Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) chairs the newly renamed Subcommittee on Civil Service, Census, and Agency Organization, of the Committee on Government Reform; Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) is the panels ranking Democratic member. Former census subcommittee chairman, Rep. Dan Miller (R-FL), was named vice chairman. New General Accounting Office report: The U.S. General Accounting Office, the investigative and audit arm of Congress, issued a new report last month on the strengths and weaknesses of Census 2000 field follow-up activities, the single most costly census operation. Members of the Census Bureaus House and Senate oversight committees requested the evaluation, entitled 2000 Census: Best Practices and Lessons Learned for More Cost-Effective Nonresponse Follow-up (Report No. GAO-02-196). GAO reports are available through the agencys web site at www.gao.gov or by calling 202-512-6000 (TDD/202-512-2537). Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to Terri Ann Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at terriann2k(a)aol.com. For copies of previous News Alerts and other information, use our web site www.census2000.org. Please direct all requests to receive News Alerts, and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census 2000 Initiative at Census2000(a)ccmc.org or 202/326-8700. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues and other interested individuals. -- Ed Christopher Metropolitan Specialist Midwest Resource Center Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-283-3501 (F)

22 years, 9 months

RE: [CTPP] Status of UA Delineation

by Robert LaMacchia

Update on the Status of the UA Delineation The Notice of the Final Criteria for the delineation of the Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters based on the Census 2000 results was published today, March 15, 2002 in the Federal Register. You may download the notice from the Census Bureau web site at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/ua_2k.html With the delay in the publication of the final criteria, the announcement of the Urbanized Areas based on Census 2000 will now not be published in the Federal Register before mid April, 2002. Bob LaMacchia Geography Division U. S. Census Bureau -----Original Message----- From: owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net [mailto:owner-ctpp-news@chrispy.net]On Behalf Of Robert LaMacchia Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:17 PM To: Ctpp-News Maillist Subject: [CTPP] Status of UA Delineation We have received a number of questions about the timetable for the publication of the final criteria for the definition of Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters. We now expect to publish in the Federal Register the final criteria before mid March, 2002, and have the announcement of the Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters based on these criteria and the Census 2000 population totals by late March, 2002 or early April, 2002. As part of the GIS and Census workshop at GIS-T 2002 in Atlanta, we will be describing the automated process to delineate the UAs and UCs based on the final criteria. Please note that session 6.4 Census 2002 & TIGER Modernization in the preliminary program for GIS-T 2002 has been replaced by another topic, and the only formal discussion of the UA criteria will be at the GIS and Census Workshop Sunday afternoon. The Census Bureau plans to have an exhibit booth at GIS-T, so please stop by if you are not attending the workshop (or even if you do attend the workshop). Bob LaMacchia Geography Division U. S. Census Bureau 301-457-1022

22 years, 10 months

Urbanzied Area Definitions: Census Bureau Notice...

by Nanda Srinivasan

Attached is the Census Bureau's criteria for defining urban and rural territory based on the results of Census 2000. It was published in the Federal Register today (March 15, 2001). Thank you Nanda Srinivasan

22 years, 10 months

When will the 2000 CTPP data become available?

by Frank Lenk

Does anyone know the latest release schedule? Frank Lenk Director of Research Services Mid-America Regional Council

22 years, 10 months

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