One of the benefits of APDU membership is Ken Hodges’ meticulous notes from the Census Advisory Committee.

http://www.apdu.org/advocacy/dcac.htm  Ken represents APDU in this CB committee. 

At the meeting, Susan Schechter gave an ACS status report, including discussion of the March 2009 Fed Register notice regarding 5-year ACS data products.  Quoting from Ken’s notes,  “They (CB) received about 25 comments on these proposals, many from the transportation community because the most severe restrictions on 5-year ACS data are applied to the journey to work data.  The Census Bureau is reviewing the comments now, and working toward final specifications.”

Some of the responses submitted to the FR notice are posted at the TRB Census subcommittee page: http://www.trbcensus.com/notes.html   (look under the title “Census-related notes and articles”

Also very interesting is that the Joint Advisory Advertising Review Panel (JAARP)  issued a  vote of “no confidence” in the company, DraftFCB for their work on the 2010 Census.  Ken’s notes include much more detail about this.

FHWA is a corporate member of APDU  (which is a paperwork struggle, just so you know).  Ed Christopher, FHWA Resource Center Planning Team now is on the APDU Board.    For more information about APDU (Association of Public Data Users, please visit their website: www.apdu.org

Elaine Murakami

FHWA Office of Planning

206-220-4460