[CTPP] Help determine our request to US Census Bureau for CTPP Special Tabulations based on ACS 5-year (2006-2010) Data

Dear CTPP Community, This is an opportunity for your input on the upcoming CTPP based on 5-year ACS 2006-2010! This message contains colored highlighting, if you cannot see it, please view the message in HTML (if possible). Please download the attached spreadsheet, mark it as appropriate according to the instructions and information below, and return it attached to an email directly to me by Friday, May 7th, 2010 pweinberger(a)aashto.org (Please do not reply to the whole list with your marked attached spreadsheet, for that will create a version control nightmare!) The attached spreadsheet is a proposed table list to submit to the Census Bureau for special tabulations based on the 5-year ACS, it is derived from the Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board's approved CTPP from 3-year ACS data table list. For large area geography, we plan to keep the table list the same as the current 3-year table list (the spreadsheet, as if there were no highlighting). For small area geography (tract, TAZ, and block group), we are proposing to eliminate many of the tables with 3-way cross-tabulations, or 2-way cross-tabulations with more than 40 cells because we suspect they will contain very little or no data. We have highlighted the tables proposed for deletion at small geography in BLUE. Please identify any highlighted tables you feel are important to keep, and not be eliminated by placing a mark in the specified column and row. Alternatively, if you see tables that are not marked for deletion at small geography please feel free to let me know there is no need for those tables, it would be a waste of resources to generate data that is essentially useless to the transportation planning community. The number of classifications in each variable may need to be reduced to pass the CB's criteria and some of those tables have been highlighted in pink, we are including this information to start thinking about the ways variable groups can collapse. For the ACS 2006-2010 five-year data and the 2010 Census Tracts, there is projected to be, on average, a little over 4000 residents per tract, and approximately 120 household records and 150 worker records in the unweighted sample. The 5-year data has no lower bound for place size. Tables that include Means of Transportation still require 3 unweighted records per each category of Means of Transportation category to avoid suppression. There is no rule yet in place for maximum number of cells per table, a number has been discussed, but not decided upon. If you have questions please do not hesitate to email them to me. Thanks in advance for your help! Penelope Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 http://ctpp.transportation.org/home/default.htm <http://www.transportation.org> It's just as bad to not make a plan as to blindly follow the one you already have.