[CTPP] Census Transportation Questions - Response Rates

Hope everyone had a great Census day. Specific federal lesgislative and programmatic requirements are included on the Census Bureau's web page at: http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/content.htm I would think that this is a very important page to disseminate to local editors who think that the Census long form is asking superfluous or unnecessary questions. Hopefully the editors (as well as certain lawmakers) understand that it's not only the U.S. Constitution driving the decennial census; it's laws passed by our Congress, as well! Transportation-related Census questions are discussed in the Census PDF document: http://www.census.gov/pub/dmd/www/pdf/05d_tr.pdf Response rates at the national, state, county and place level are at: http://rates.census.gov/ Note that tract-level response rates are being posted and updated on the WWW on a weekly basis. They are based on "interim census tracts" http://rates.census.gov/tracts/ (The above URL is not linked to rates.census.gov! The Bureau's web site has a lot of "hidden nuggets" so I would recommend bookmarking all of these relevant Census WWW sites for your future use.) Interim census tracts, in ESRI shape file formats: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/mrrstate.html My recommendation would be to map these tract-level response rates for your region or state ASAP. Any ideas on how to represent this data before your local policy boards or local media? cheers, Chuck Purvis, MTC