This follows from their press approach on
most things – not a transportation thing. It gives press time to
prepare stories on release date – standard procedure on most press
activities in govt. I believe that they also make the data available early
on an embargoed basis to State Data Centers (Elaine –yes?) I have
been berated in the past by AASHTO State press people for not giving them the
data when I see it on an embargoed basis and obviously that would be the last
time I ever saw it if I spread it around. By the way I should have
said that USA Today will do something if there is something newsworthy there to
do. With the annual stuff one never knows whether there may be anything to
get excited about. Alan
PS received copies from printers today of Commuting
in America III taadahh!
From: Polzin,
Steve [mailto:polzin@cutr.usf.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006
8:52 AM
To:
Cc:
Subject: RE: [CTPP] October 3 is
the next scheduled release of ACStablesincluding PLACE OF WORK!
Who in the world made the
decision that the media should get the data before the professional
community? Seems strange to me.
Steven
E. Polzin, Ph.D.
Center for Urban
Transportation Research
813-974-9849 (w)
813-416-7517 (c)
polzin@cutr.usf.edu
From:
ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006
7:39 AM
To: 'Murakami, Elaine';
ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Cc:
Subject: RE: [CTPP] October 3 is
the next scheduled release of ACStablesincluding PLACE OF WORK!
USA Today has the data
and is planning a fairly major play on the release date. AEP
From:
ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Murakami, Elaine
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
7:46 PM
To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] October 3 is the
next scheduled release of ACS tablesincluding PLACE OF WORK!
How time flies! Just when you
thought you were getting a handle on the journey-to-work data from the 2005
ACS, the next round of data will released! The next set will include Place
of Work tabulations. >From the CTPP world, these are like “CTPP
Part 2” tables, where the tabulation is by place-of-work, rather than
place-of-residence. Since the 2005 ACS included ALL counties in the
sample, the place-of-work tabulations should look much better than the 2004 ACS
place-of-work tabulations (about one-third of counties were included in the
sample).
Don’t forget:
1. 2005 ACS does not include
Group Quarters population. That is, areas with large military
installations and/or college dormitories should expect considerable differences
when comparing to Census 2000 results.
2. The data are collected over
all 12 months, therefore areas with seasonal shifts are likely to see the
greatest differences when comparing to Census 2000 results.
Good luck! Nanda Srinivasan,
Ed Christopher and I are trying to wrap up our new Profile sheets using the
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning
206-220-4460 (in