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by Joshua Kim

Hello...I was thinking that the readers of this listserve would be interesed in the work that my undergrad. demography students did this semester to create a student section for www.census.gov. I am trying to interest the Bureau in actually creating a student section - a place where students utilize www.census.gov to learn demographic trends, concepts, etc. and create original work. Please let me know what you think... There are five teams - representing 5 different approaches: The portal site is: http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/final_project_refrence.html The individual sites for each team are: http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Psycos/finalportal.html http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/WVUSocial_Links/portalmain.htm http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Goodfellas/portal_final.htm http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/Hart/frames.html http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/Demography/Final/TD/portal_page.html Thanks.... Joshua Masnick Kim Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor West Virginia University - Department of Sociology and Anthropology Morgantown WV 26506-6326 316 Knapp Hall PO Box 6326 phone (304) 293-5801 ext. 1633 fax (304) 293-5994 e-mail: jkim4(a)wvu.edu http://www.as.wvu.edu/soc_a/

26 years, 9 months

Summary levels of reporting for CTPP 2000

by Murakami, Elaine <FHWA>

Sam Granato wrote: I have a question regarding 2000 CTPP data for counties that go "unclaimed" by both MPO's and states regarding zone boundaries. Will data for those counties continue to be in the statewide CTPP at the same level of geography as in 1990 (by place over 2,500 for employment, by township and place over 2,500 for residence data)? Or would there be changes? Elaine's response: Our current plan is to have pretty much the same geographic levels as in 1990 CTPP, with the addition of something called "statewide TAZ". So, that means, For "state" level CTPP there will be State Metro Area County Place State TAZ: We are still (!) struggling with this geographic unit, because of the need to develop a way to provide equivalencies of urban TAZs (or census tracts) to statewide TAZs in the metropolitan portions of the states, and the possibility of some counties being composed of mostly urban TAZs and some statewide TAZs in outlying areas. For "urban" level CTPP there will be: Region MSA Urbanized Area Study Area County CBD TAZ OR Region-State-County-MCD-Place-Tract OR Region-State-County-MCD-Place-Tract-Block Group

26 years, 9 months

TIGER/Line 98 Counties to be re-done

by Murakami, Elaine <FHWA>

Below, please find a list of counties in TIGER/Line 98 which have errors which are currently being corrected by the Census Bureau. If you are planning to use any of these counties in your TAZ definition, please contact Jamie Rosenson or Valerie Murdock at the Census Bureau (emails listed below), to have them send you a replacement TIGER file. email: vmurdock(a)geo.census.gov jrosenson(a)geo.census.gov Alaska 02050 Bethel 02070 Dillingham 02150 Kodiak 02185 North Slope 02232 Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Arkansas 05007 Benton California 06003 Alpine 06013 Contra Costa Colorado 08001 Adams 08005 Arapahoe 08031 Denver Florida 12043 Glades Georgia 13083 Dade 13089 DeKalb Kentucky 21081 Grant 21191 Pendleton Maine 23005 Cumberland 23013 Knox Minnesota 27037 Dakota 27061 Itasca 27163 Washington Missouri 29019 Boone 29027 Callaway 29073 Gasconade Montana 30007 Broadwater 30031 Gallatin 30067 Park Nevada 32031 Washoe New Jersey 34011 Cumberland 34029 Ocean North Carolina (note: I think I have given all the NC info to CB already) 37057 Davidson 37059 Davie 37067 Forsyth 37081 Guilford 37097 Iredell 37169 Stokes 37197 Yadkin Ohio 39007 Ashtabula 39055 Geauga Oklahoma 40027 Cleveland Oregon 41043 Linn Pennsylvania 42077 Lehigh 42079 Luzerne 42095 Northampton 42131 Wyoming South Carolina 45047 Greenwood 45059 Laurens Texas 48185 Grimes 48261 Kenedy 48409 San Patricio Vermont 50021 Rutland Virginia 51013 Arlington 51031 Campbell 51153 Prince William 51520 Bristol 51650 Hampton 51700 Newport News 51830 Williamsburg Washington 53031 Jefferson Puerto Rico 72054 Florida

26 years, 9 months

Census 2000 News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Price Tag for 2000 Census Jumps $1.7 Billion President Names New Monitoring Board Co-Chair The Census Bureau estimates that it will need an extra $1.7 billion to conduct the census next year, bringing the total fiscal year 2000 (FY00) funding request for the decennial count to $4.5 billion. The Administration submitted a revised cost estimate for the 2000 census to Congress yesterday, fulfilling a requirement of the emergency supplemental spending bill signed into law by President Clinton on May 21. The emergency measure also included an additional $45 million for census preparations in the current fiscal year ending September 30. The Census Bureau says the extra funds are needed to comply with a January Supreme Court ruling that federal law prohibits the use of sampling methods to count the population for purposes of congressional apportionment. The Bureau originally planned to make direct contact with at least 90 percent of households in each census tract and estimate the remaining ten percent of households based on the information collected during door-to-door visits to other unresponsive homes in that tract. The revised plan, developed to comply with the Supreme Court decision, includes follow-up visits to all 45 million households the Bureau estimates will not mail back a questionnaire, increasing the field workload by 50 percent. The Bureau also plans to expand its advertising campaign and outreach activities to encourage a higher mail response, according to a written statement by Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt. In a letter to House and Senate appropriators, U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew said the expanded field operations (called "non-response follow-up") will take ten weeks, four weeks more than under the original census plan. Additional costs include hiring more local office staff and enumerators, increasing office space and equipment, and expanding data processing capabilities at the four data capture centers, Mr. Lew said. The Census Bureau now expects employment to peak at 860,000 during the census. The Administration expects to provide a detailed cost breakdown for the additional $1.7 billion after identifying proposed offsets in other federal spending. The ten-year cost of the original Census 2000 plan, which assumed follow-up visits to only 30 million households, was $4 billion. The new funding request brings the total ten-year cost of the census to about $5.7 billion. Congress must now find a way to provide a sharp funding increase for the 2000 census while reducing overall spending in the broader budget account that includes the Census Bureau by several billion dollars from current year (FY99) funding levels. Last week, Senate appropriators divided up discretionary funds among the 13 budget accounts. (Discretionary funds cover all federal spending that is not mandated by law, such as social security benefits and payments on the federal debt.) The 1997 balanced budget law set the total amount of discretionary spending available for FY00. The Commerce, Justice and State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies account received $28 billion, more than $5 billion less than this year's allocation of $33.3 billion. House appropriators divvied up their discretionary funds a week earlier, giving the Commerce account $30.5 billion for FY00. Both houses of Congress will pass their own versions of the spending bill and then meet in a conference committee to work out inevitable differences. The new fiscal year starts on October 1. Census Monitoring Board update: President Clinton has appointed Census Monitoring Board member Gilbert F. Casellas as the panel's new co-chairman. Mr. Casellas replaces Tony Coelho, who resigned earlier this month. An investment banker and attorney, Mr. Casellas also served as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and General Counsel of the United States Air Force. Members of the Monitoring Board met last week with Commerce Secretary William Daley to discuss the status of preparations for the 2000 census. The President has not yet filled the vacancy left by Mr. Coelho's departure from the eight-member panel. Also last week, the Republican co-chairman of the Board said he would continue to serve on the panel despite his appointment as National Chairman of Steve Forbes' presidential campaign. In a written statement, J. Kenneth Blackwell said: "I look forward to continuing my work to ensure the 2000 census does not repeat the mistakes made in 1990 when over four million people were undercounted or missed." Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the senior Democrat on the House census subcommittee, called for Mr. Blackwell's "immediate resignation," saying that he had used his position on the Board to help Republicans retain their majority in the House "by political manipulation of the 2000 census." Earlier this month, the subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Dan Miller (R-FL), urged Mr. Coelho to leave the Board after Mr. Coelho was named General Chairman of Vice President Albert Gore's presidential campaign. Rep. Miller, quoted in a Capitol Hill-based newspaper, accused Mr. Coelho of leading "Democratic efforts... to retake the House by political manipulation of the 2000 census." Neither Mr. Blackwell nor Mr. Coelho is receiving compensation for their campaign service. Other congressional activities: The House Subcommittee on the Census will hold a hearing on counting Americans living abroad in the census. In 2000, the Census Bureau plans to include members of the armed forces, federal civilian employees, and their dependents stationed overseas during the census in the state population totals used as the basis for apportioning seats in Congress among the 50 states. A similar effort in 1990 caused a seat in Congress to shift from Massachusetts to Washington; the Supreme Court upheld the Bureau's decision to count this population in a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts. The census subcommittee bill also examine proposals to count all Americans, not just military and federal personnel, living abroad. The panel will also review legislation (H.R. 1632) to change the way prisoners are counted. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mark Green (R-WI), would require the Census Bureau to count prisoners incarcerated in another state as residents of the state that pays more than half of the cost of incarceration. The Bureau has established a set of rules, called "residency rules," to determine where people should be counted. Prisoners are counted at their place of incarceration, following the Bureau's policy of counting people at the place they usually reside on Census Day (April 1). The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn 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 <http://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.

26 years, 9 months

Census 2000 News Alert

by Ed Christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Census Bureau Funding Set through September 30th Census Monitoring Board Co-Chair Resigns Congress is expected to give final approval today to an emergency spending bill that includes extra funds for census preparations this year and lifts a restriction that prevented the Census Bureau and other major government departments from spending money past June 15. The bill also requires the Administration to submit to Congress, by June 1, a revised budget request for fiscal year 2000 (which begins October 1, 1999). The 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 1141) allocates an additional $44.9 million for Census 2000 activities in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999. This amount is over and above the $1.027 billion already appropriated for Census 2000 for the current fiscal year. The Bureau must expand its operational capacity to support follow-up visits to all households that don't return a census form by mail. In the final bill enacted this week, Congress earmarked the extra funds as follows: * $10.9 million for opening and staffing the 520 local census offices; * $ 4.2 million for training and operational kits for census enumerators; * $ 2.0 million for Telephone Questionnaire Assistance infrastructure; * $ 9.1 million for data processing and telecommunications to support increased door-to-door follow-up activities; * $ 3.7 million for expanded administrative requirements associated with more door-to-door follow-up visits; and * $15.0 million for advertising and promotion. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and the federal judiciary, faced a shutdown after June 15 unless the opposing sides in the dispute over using statistical sampling methods in the census agreed to extend the spending authority for that broad budget account through the end of fiscal year 1999. The FY99 Commerce appropriations bill, enacted last fall, allocated a full year of funds for the covered agencies but terminated their authority to spend money after June 15. The Census Bureau is an agency of the Commerce Department. Funding for 2000: Even as Congress completes action on the supplemental spending bill for the current fiscal year, it is facing tight spending limits on funding for fiscal year 2000 (FY2000). House appropriators have allocated funds available for discretionary spending in FY2000 among the 13 regular funding accounts. The Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary and Related Agencies account received about $30.4 billion, $2.7 billion below the total amount allocated for the account this year. The Senate Appropriations Committee plans to divide up the discretionary funds among its 13 subcommittees next week. The Administration's original FY2000 request of $2.8 billion for Census 2000 activities was compiled before the Census Bureau revised its operational plan to comply with the January Supreme Court ruling on the use of sampling methods for congressional apportionment. That amount is $1.8 billion more than this year's funding amount. The revised plan, which includes follow-up visits to all households that don't return a census form by mail, is expected to cost significantly more than the Bureau's original plan. The Commerce/Justice/State appropriations subcommittee, chaired in the House by Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY), must figure out how to provide a significant spending increase for the 2000 census over the current level while meeting the overall lower funding cap for the agencies and programs included in the same account. Census Monitoring Board co-chair resigns: Tony Coelho, the Democratic co-chair of the Census Monitoring Board, has resigned to devote his attention to his new post as General Chairman of Vice President Albert Gore's presidential campaign. The eight-member Board was created in late 1997 as part of a compromise agreement between Congress and the Administration to resolve a stalemate over the use of sampling methods in the census. Mr. Coelho represented California's Central Valley in Congress from 1979 - 89. After leaving Congress, he pursued a career in the business sector and since 1994, has chaired the President's Commission on Employment of People with Disabilities. In his letter of resignation to the President, Mr. Coelho said the Board "has made many positive contributions to the Census Bureau's preparations for the 2000 decennial." He also praised the Census Bureau's staff as "among the most dedicated public servants in all of government." The President has not yet named a replacement for Mr. Coelho. State legislative activities: Colorado and Kansas have enacted laws that prohibit the use of census data derived with statistical sampling methods for congressional and state legislative redistricting. Arizona and Alaska have also passed similar laws that are subject to review by the U.S. Department of Justice under "pre-clearance" provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Colorado Governor Bill Owens (Republican) signed Senate Bill 206, which requires the General Assembly and reapportionment commission to use the same data for redistricting that is used to apportion the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives among the 50 states. The Supreme Court ruled in January that federal law bars the use of sampling methods to calculate the state population totals used for congressional apportionment. Kansas Governor Bill Graves (Republican) signed Senate Bill 351, requiring the state to use census figures "identical" to the "actual enumeration" data used for congressional apportionment, to draw district boundaries. Stakeholder activities: The Commerce Department's 2000 Census Advisory Committee will hold its next quarterly meeting on June 17 - 18, at the Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. The committee's charter was renewed earlier this year; Dallas (TX) Mayor Ronald Kirk is the panel's new chairman. The meeting will run from 9:00 - 5:15 p.m. on June 17 and 9:00 - 12:15 p.m. on June 18. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn 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 <http://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.

26 years, 9 months

Census Products Road Show

by Chuck Purvis (MTC)

CTPP-News recipients: The Census Bureau is providing some half-day "census products" road shows over the next few months. The next meetings are scheduled for May 25th in Seattle and May 27th in Oakland. They are free. The agenda is tailored to the local audience. Subject matter for our 5/27 agenda in Oakland includes: census 2000 update; data products and dissemination plans; demonstration of the online American FactFinder Data Dissemination System; Geography and Geographic Products; and Census 2000 and the Bay Area. Future census bureau conferences are included on their web page at: http://www.census.gov/mso/www/confpage.html If your region isn't listed, you may want to negotiate with your census regional office to put something together. Ms. Cam McIntosh of the Seattle office does a great job for our census region, but I think her roadshows are just in Northern California / Nevada / Pacific Northwest. cheers, Chuck Purvis, MTC ******************************************************* e-mail: cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov Chuck Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst, Planning Section Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (voice) (510) 464-7848 (fax) WWW: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ MTC DataMart: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/datamart/ MTC FTP Site: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/ Personal WWW: http://home.earthlink.net/~clpurvis/ *******************************************************

26 years, 9 months

Census 2000 News Alert

by ed christopher

From: Census2000 <Census2000(a)ccmc.org> Congress, Administration Reportedly Close to Agreement To Avert Government Shutdown Over Census Sampling Dispute Congress and the Administration reportedly are close to an agreement that will keep funds flowing to the Census Bureau and several other government departments after June 15. The spending agreement also would allocate an additional $45 million for census preparations in the current fiscal year, provided the Administration sends a detailed budget for census costs in 2000 to lawmakers by June 1. The extra funds, as well as the authority for the Bureau to continue spending money past June 15, would likely be included in an emergency appropriations bill that Congress is considering this week. However, lawmakers and the White House are still grappling over several key provisions of the underlying bill, making passage of the spending measure uncertain. The Bureau's fiscal year 1999 (FY99) funding bill allocated $1.027 billion for Census 2000 activities but only gave the Bureau authority to spend money through June 15, 1999. The restriction applied to the entire budget account covering the Departments of Commerce, State, and Justice, the federal judiciary, and several independent agencies. (The Census Bureau is an agency of the Commerce Department.) Congressional critics of the Bureau's Census 2000 plan and the Administration agreed to revisit the use of sampling methods to supplement a direct count this spring. If the new agreement holds, it would lift the June 15 cut-off date, allowing the Bureau and other federal departments to continue spending funds through September 30, the end of the fiscal year. The Bureau's request for an extra $44.9 million in FY99 covers expanded field operations, technology infrastructure, and marketing. The request includes $20.8 million to open, staff, and equip local census offices (LCOs), including an additional 44 LCOs, sooner. $15 million would be used for more advertising and promotion activities. $9.1 million would pay for expanded data processing and telephone capacity. The Bureau revised its Census 2000 plan in February after the Supreme Court ruled that the law bars the use of sampling to count the population for purposes of congressional apportionment. To meet that requirement, the Bureau must visit all households that do not mail back a census form, instead of estimating characteristics for a portion of the unresponsive homes. The door-to-door visits (called 'nonresponse follow-up') are the most costly operational phase of the census. The Bureau still plans a large quality-check survey after the direct count, to identify and correct misses and double-counts in the first tally. The agency has not yet submitted a full cost estimate to Congress for implementing the modified census plan next year. The fiscal year 1999 supplemental spending bill was originally drafted to aid victims of Hurricane Mitch. However, the measure stalled when congressional leaders and the President could not agree on how to pay for the emergency spending. The bill was revived as a vehicle for emergency funding to pay for military operations in Yugoslavia and other congressional priorities, many related to defense. Other legislative news: Rep. Mark Green (R-WI) has introduced a bill to change the way prisoners are counted in the census. H.R. 1632 would require the Census Bureau to count prisoners incarcerated in another state as residents of the state that pays more than half of the cost of incarceration. Under the Bureau's residency rules, people are counted at the place they reside regularly as of Census Day. Prisoners are counted at their place of incarceration; college students are counted where they attend school (provided they live away from home). H.R. 1632was referred to the Committee on Government Reform. State legislative activities: A bill that amends the State Constitution to prohibit the use of statistically-corrected census numbers for redistricting purposes took effect in Alaska after Democratic Governor Tony Knowles returned the measure without his signature to the state legislature. Because Alaska only has one representative in Congress, the new law will affect the redrawing of state Senate and House of Representatives district lines. The measure covered several issues relating to the redistricting process in Alaska. In a letter to State Senate President Drue Pearce, the Governor wrote: "To prohibit the redistricting board to use census numbers that may involve sampling is to deny a valuable tool which has been demonstrated to correct undercounting of citizens during the census process. Although it is not known to what extent Alaskans may be undercounted or what effect this may have, this provision elevates partisan politics over the goal of accuracy in census numbers." Republicans hold the majority in both chambers of the state legislature. The redistricting process in Alaska is subject to pre-clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (as amended). The Kansas state legislature passed and sent to the Governor a bill (SB351) requiring the use of census numbers produced by an "actual enumeration" to draw congressional and state legislative district boundaries. Census Monitoring Board news: Republican party activists have called upon Census Monitoring Board co-chair Tony Coelho to resign after Mr. Coelho was named chairman of Vice President Albert Gore's presidential campaign. Mr. Coelho, a former Member of Congress from California, was one of four people appointed by President Clinton in the spring of 1998 to the new, eight-member oversight board. Congressional Republican leaders appointed the other four members. Mr. Coelho has not announced whether he will continue to serve on the Board. Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be directed to TerriAnn 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 <http://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.

26 years, 9 months

Re: Fwd: [CTPP] F74 Codes

by jonathan_d_martin/ny/boc_at_boc＠ccmail.census.gov

I do not have all the facts on this stuff with the F74 on land - but it seems that there is a possible computer glitch transforming certain boundaries to F74. If I receive further news - and i expect to, I will forward it on! Jon Martin

26 years, 10 months

Fwd: [CTPP] F74 Codes

by MGPITTS＠aol.com

This came to me and I thought I should forward it to you. Mary Pitts Huffstetler

26 years, 10 months

all taz-up are out

by Ed Christopher

For all the mpo's we finished boxing and getting ready to ship the rest of the TAZ-UP software, accompanying tiger98s and arcviews. i would suspect that everyone would be getting their stuff by monday may 17. there are still a couple of folks who will be missing one tiger98 file but they will know who they are by the notes dropped into their packages. if you have any questions please direct them towards our ctpp2000 hotline number 202-366-5000. ed christopher 202-366-0412 (mailist note--the mailist has been down for the last few days due to a combination of technical and human errors on the part of the service provider. if you had sent something and it bounced back to you try sending it again. we apologize for any inconvenience.)

26 years, 10 months

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