Mara, I share in your frustration. I have run into the same issue trying to get block level detail on population in households by age, and also hit the wall trying to subtract out GQ’s by age. In addition, Units in Structure at the block level would be a huge asset to planners. Block groups are too large and don’t aggregate to zones. We are probably going to take block group level proportions and apply them to block data and then sum to zones. With single family & multi-family we can at least overlay land use information and estimate that way.
Kendra Watkins
Socioeconomic Program Manager
Mid-Region Council of Governments
809 Copper NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505)724-3601
From: ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Byrnes
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See http://www.caliper.com/DataCDs/2010Blocks.htm $795 for national block-level dataset and corresponding block geography…saves a lot of data manipulation headaches!
Kevin Byrnes
GWRC
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Subject: [CTPP] detailed age (block level) for population in quarters
I have a request for detailed 2010 age data by block for the population in households (aka excluding group quarters). This data is available in SF1 and SF2 at the tract level but not block. It has to be blocks because I need to aggregate up to TAZ, and our TAZ's split tract and block group boundaries.
Has anyone come across this data or found a way of estimating it? Group quarters also does not have detailed age groups so we can't just subtract.
Mara
Mara Kaminowitz, GISP
GIS Analyst
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