We are trying to come up with an estimate of adult "daytime" female population for each census tract in Salt Lake City.
Intuitively, for a census tract, A, this estimate is: (the number of women who have a workplace in A) plus (the number of women live in A) minus (the number of working women who live in A).
>From the 5-year CTPP, we will use tables A20211, A101203, and A11600 for the three terms in the above calculation. We will only calculate the measure for women 16 years and older (although ideally we'd like to have a measure for just 40 years and up).
Can anyone from this list provide me with feedback about this methodology? Are there any big issues that I need to be aware of? Is there a better way to be doing this?
In the end, we would like a daytime measure of the female population in order to calculate mammography accessibility metrics.
Many thanks for your comments.
Steve
Steven Farber, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Utah
http://stevenfarber.wordpress.com<http://stevenfarber.wordpress.com/>
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From: Weinberger Penelope
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:14 PM
To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
Subject: CTPP Training at WSDOT (Olympia, WA) on February 3, 2014 - Census Transportation Planning Package
Hi All,
A free training session is offered by AASHTO and FHWA on the Census
Transportation Planning Package (CTPP), and sponsored by the
Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)
There are just a few slots left!
What: Free CTPP training
When: Thursday January 30, 2014 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Where: 818 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles CA 90017, 12th floor.
RSVP email to John Cho [CHOJ(a)scag.ca.gov]
The CTPP is a set of special tabulations designed by transportation
planners using data from the Census Bureau. The most current release of
CTPP data comes from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey (ACS)
sample, and includes data from small geographic units such as census
tracts and transportation analysis zones (TAZs).
The CTPP is a unique census product providing data relating to the
journey to work, including travel mode, number of household vehicles,
demographic variables, employment status, income and poverty
information, life cycle, and many other characteristics. Data tables
for home and work locations, and worker flow (home-to-work) are
available. A rough agenda for the full-day training session is below:
● Introductions and welcome
● Introduction to the CTPP
● ACS questionnaire: paper exercise
● Data issues
● Break
● Data issues continued
● Find the CTPP table: paper exercise
● Lunch
● Software tour
● Profile exercise: software exercise
● Results of profile exercise
● Wrap up
Please register by sending the participant's name and contact
information in an e-mail to: John Cho [CHOJ(a)scag.ca.gov]. Space is limited. Please RSVP ASAP!
The afternoon session will include training on the new CTPP
software.
Computers will be provided, but may be shared.
CTPP will be doing hands on training in January and February in multiple locations on the West Coast. (SANDAG, SCAG, SLOCOG, MTC, SACOG, Redding/Shasta Area, ODOT - Salem and WADOT - Olympia)
There are currently open slots for the training in San Luis Obispo on January 23. If you are available and would like to register, please contact James Worthley JWorthley(a)slocog.org<mailto:JWorthley@slocog.org> off-list - and he will tell you how!
As slots open in the other locations I will notify the list. Most trainings are for a limited number of participants.
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.
Penelope Z. Weinberger
CTPP Program Manager
AASHTO
202-624-3556
ctpp.transportation.org
For those of you who might be interested this is a great opportunity to present your work. It would be nice to have a strong transportation showing.
Ed C
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> How data users have dealt with changes in ACS survey questions
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> The American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Conference will bring together ACS data users and staff from the U.S. Census Bureau to improve understanding of the value and utility of ACS data and to promote information sharing among data users about key ACS data issues and applications. The conference will include a mix of invited and contributed presentations by ACS data users and an invited plenary session by Census Bureau staff.
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The Census for Transportation Planning Subcommittee, ABJ30(1) will be
meeting on Tuesday, January 14, 12:15PM - 1:15PM, in the L'Enfant room of
the Hilton. There will be a lot of discussion about CTPP as well as a
presentation on workplace coding. The agenda is listed below. Please join
us!
AGENDA
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Subcommittee Update
III. Presentation: Mark Kutzbach, "A Comparison of Workplace and
Commute Distance Coding in Job-Linked Survey and Administrative Data"
IV. CTPP Program Update
V. CTPP Roundtable Discussion
VI. Next Steps
*Mara Kaminowitz, GISP*GIS Coordinator
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*Baltimore Metropolitan Council*
Offices @ McHenry Row
1500 Whetstone Way
Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21230
410-732-0500 ext. 1030
mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org
www.baltometro.org
Hi! All,
I got an interesting question from our management.
They want to know if we can define a commuter by how many work trips this particular person make during certain period of time (a day, a week or a year).
The simple definition I found online to describe a commuter is "a person who travels some distance to work on a regular basis."
This brings up two basic questions:
1. How do we determine "some distance"?
2. How do we determine "regular basis"?
I could not find a clear definition regarding commuter in Commuting in America III though we talked about commuter population throughout the report.
Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated!
Juyin (roo-een) Chen, AICP
Travel Demand Modeling Coordinator
Virginia Department of Transportation
Transportation & Mobility Planning Division<http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=208056989819810995&gl=us&hl=en&cd=1&c…>
P +1-804-225-3564
F +1-804-225-4785
http://www.virginiadot.org/vtm/