1. The Census Bureau released the "balance" of the 2004 ACS tabulations
on American Factfinder this past Thursday, 11/17/2005. Or so we thought.
We're currently wading through the "CTPP Part 1 - like" tables that were
just released, but we're concerned about four tables in particular.
Can someone at the Census Bureau or USDOT comment on the four tables
that are "placeholder tables" in American Factfinder, but don't yet have
data? These are the "workplace geography" tables:
B08406 Sex of Workers by Detailed Means of Transportation for Workplace
Geography
B08526 Means of Transportation to Work by Industry for Workplace
Geography
B08528 Means of Transportation to Work by Class of Worker for Workplace
Geography
B08534 Means of Transportation to Work by Travel TIme to Work for
Workplace Geography
Hopefully the data is "coming soon"!
2. A different question about geography in the ACS: when will the
Census Bureau convert from the older metropolitan area to the newer
metropolitan area definitions? That is, converting from the
MSA/PMSA/CMSA geographies to the CBSA/CSA geographies? [My guess is this
will change with the release of the 2005 ACS data, next summer, but it
would be useful to confirm.]
Thanks in advance!
Chuck Purvis
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Charles L. Purvis, AICP
Principal Transportation Planner/Analyst
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607-4700
(510) 817-5755 (office) [new, 8/1/05]
(510) 817-7848 (fax) [new, 8/1/05]
www:
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/
Census WWW:
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/
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