Hi Everyone – We are in the sign-off process for the next issue of the CTPP Status Report. It will probably be several weeks before it is approved for distribution! Anyway, I happened to be looking at the INDEX of articles http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/srindex.htm so I thought I would post some links to some “oldies but goodies.”

“CTPP Workers at Work compared to Other Employment Estimates”

“Reconciling Total Employment (jobs) and Worker-at-Work”

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/sr0503.htm

Also, we got a question for which the easiest answer was to use CTPP 2000 Part 2 data (despite its age) at the census tract level. The CTPP2000 Part 2 data are available via BTS, both in Transtats and by ordering CDs http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/2000dataprod.htm

HOWEVER, one of the easiest ways to access this data at the tract level is to use the Univ of WI-Milwaukee “drill downs”

http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/drilldowns/index.html

As the ACS standard tabulations now include some workplace tabulations, I don’t know if UWM plans to update with ACS 2005-2009 data when the CB releases the first 5-year ACS product (anticipated in December 2010).

More current data using QCEW and other administrative records would be to use the LEHD On The Map data, but would require downloading block level data and accumulating the blocks into tract summaries.

Elaine Murakami

FHWA Office of Planning

206-220-4460