should be reminding us why the Long Form is likely to become history. It was quite clearly becoming a problem for response rates to the decennial Census in general and the Bureau's first priority of getting the population count right. The quality/response rates of future ACS data may not be as good as what we were used to from the Long Form, but we are customers of the short form data, too. And the population head count at any level of geography is (I would imagine for most if not all of us) the Census data item least replaceable from secondary sources .
Sam Granato
Ohio DOT, Office of Technical Services
1980 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43223
Phone: 614-644-6796, Fax: 614-752-8646
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office." Robert Frost
ed christopher <edc@berwyned.com> Sent by: owner-ctpp-news@chrispy.net
04/08/02 07:51 PM
To: ctpp-news maillist <ctpp-news@chrispy.net>
cc:
Subject: [CTPP] Washington Post article on Director Kincannon
Chuck Purvis alerted me this in today's post. It gives a good summary of
where a variety of items stand between Congress and the Census Bureau.
Thanks for alerting me to the article Chuck.
Chuck Purvis wrote:
> Interesting article about the new director of the Census Bureau, Louis
> Kincannon, in today's Washington Post:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-d
> n/A10678-2002Apr7?language=printer
>
> Note that in the first few paragraphs we learn that Mr. Kincannon was
> a zero-car household while living in Paris, and cut his commute time
> in half by moving from Loudoun County to Paris. So,
> transportation-related statistics from the Census are relevant!