11 Nov
2008
11 Nov
'08
8:12 a.m.
Ed -
Actually, I tried PUMS first. The problem is the 100,000 population size
criterion apparently must hold for workers as well as residents. While
each PUMA is designed to have at least 100,000 residents, they are not
designed to have also 100,000 workers. Consequently, the Census Bureau
aggregates PUMAS when it reports PUMA of work. PUMAs are already the
largest possible usable size for this analysis. Aggregates of PUMAs
make the areas too large to infer any kind of influence of space/place
on income, at least in my estimation.
Frank
Frank Lenk
Director of Research Services
Mid-America Regional Council
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Subject: Re: [CTPP] educational attainment by place of work
Frank--good catch. Not only are there no Part 2 (workplace) tables on
educational attainment there are not any Part 1 educational attainment
tables either. I just looked at the draft tables we have been talking
about for ACS and educational attainment was not there. I will
certainly bring it up but make sure to keep it on your mind the next
time we are talking about table content.
As far as your current issue, will PUMs help? The geography is really
big (100,000 people) but it might help.
Frank Lenk wrote:
We are trying to understand the relationship between
the location of
well-paying jobs and resident income. In particular, our urban core
has
the largest concentration of job, a large fraction of
which are
well-paid, while surrounding the job centers are areas that have high
concentration of poverty, especially minority poverty. We suspect this
has something to do with a skills mismatch between the jobs and the
residents, which we can test for those who are employed by looking at
occupation of workers vs occupation of residents. But if we wanted to
expand our examination of the skill mismatch to the unemployed by
looking at, say, educational attainment of the residents vs. the
workers, we find we cannot because there is no data on educational
attainment by place of work in the 2000 CTPP.
Might this be remedied in the 2010 CTPP?
Frank Lenk
Director of Research Services
Mid-America Regional Council
600 Broadway, Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64105
www.marc.org
816.474.4240
flenk(a)marc.org
816.701.8237
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