Will this be their approach in future year estimates as well?
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Wendell Cox

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Patty Becker <pbecker@umich.edu> wrote:

The bottom line here is that the Census Bureau has abandoned its previous methods for calculating the subcounty estimates. For 2011, they basically carried the county % change in household population down to the sub-county units (MCDs and places), apparently holding the GQ pop count the same as the 2010 count (most of the time).

In my personal view, coming from a strong MCD state, it would have been better if they had just not done 2011 estimates at all.

Patty Becker

At 08:57 AM 7/2/2012, Ed Christopher wrote:

This is an interesting article Wendell Cox sent me from a friend of

friend.  We all remember when the Census Bureau changed from using

county based estimates to using sub-county estimates in 2009 which are

then used to factor and weight the ACS.  I had thought the process of

going from a county to a sub-county was a little more sophisticated but

maybe its not.

http://www.urbanophile.com/2012/06/30/misreferencing-misoverestimated-population-by-chris-briem/

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