Your point on Pulaski County can be repeated virtually everywhere where there there are municipalities in a county (read more than 99 percent). Probably the best course of action would be for the Census Bureau to withdraw these meaningless estimates

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Lupton <jlupton@metroplan.org> wrote:

I just wanted to chime in with this discussion. In my region (Little Rock AR MSA) it’s clear that the city estimates are heavily driven by census county estimates. The estimates for the largest five cities in our central county all show 0.9% growth 2010-2011. This is absurd; these five cities varied in the 2000-2010 interval between outright decline in one case and 63 percent growth in another. The building permits and all other local evidence suggests that they are not all growing at 0.9 percent in unison.

 

Therefore I express my agreement that there’s something very wrong with the place/MCD estimates released  on July 1. Since these estimates are fundamentally misleading, they are worse than nothing at all.

 

Jonathan Lupton

 

From: ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of wendell cox
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That is a crucial question that needs to be answered.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Patty Becker <pbecker@umich.edu> wrote:

Gee, I hope not. But it's very unclear what's going on. Loud protests might help.


At 05:42 PM 7/2/2012, wendell cox wrote:

Will this be their approach in future year estimates as well?
Best regards
Wendell Cox

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Patty Becker <pbecker@umich.edu> wrote:

The bottom line here is that the Census Bureau has abandoned its previous methods for calculating the subcounty estimates. For 2011, they basically carried the county % change in household population down to the sub-county units (MCDs and places), apparently holding the GQ pop count the same as the 2010 count (most of the time).

In my personal view, coming from a strong MCD state, it would have been better if they had just not done 2011 estimates at all.

Patty Becker



At 08:57 AM 7/2/2012, Ed Christopher wrote:

This is an interesting article Wendell Cox sent me from a friend of

friend.  We all remember when the Census Bureau changed from using

county based estimates to using sub-county estimates in 2009 which are

then used to factor and weight the ACS.  I had thought the process of

going from a county to a sub-county was a little more sophisticated but

maybe its not.

http://www.urbanophile.com/2012/06/30/misreferencing-misoverestimated-population-by-chris-briem/

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