[CTPP] Los Angeles (USC) Census web site

To: CTPP-News This is an *excellent* web site on census data, with focus on Los Angeles County, by Prof. Dowell Myers and his colleagues at the University of Southern California. The animated maps are fascinating. Great stuff! Chuck Purvis, MTC ******************************************************************** Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:31:17 -0800 To: URBGEOG(a)LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU From: Dowell Myers <dowell(a)rcf-fs.usc.edu> Subject: New Website on 2000 Race in California and the US Cc: jychung(a)usc.edu Dear Colleagues, With release of data on race and Hispanic origin from the 2000 census, we have set up a new website at USC that provides a full comparison of the 50 states, including details on California and Los Angeles. This site reports findings from a project on the changing contours of race and Hispanic origin, Race Contours 2000. (Co-investigators are Dowell Myers, Philip Ethington, Angela James, and William Frey.) The site address is: http://www.usc.edu/sppd/census2000 Contents focus on findings from the new multiracial question in the census, and highlight spatial differences in racial patterns. Graphs compare all 50 states (especially Mississippi and California!). In California, we have identified a "multiracial belt" in the center of the state. (It is not in San Francisco.) Also on the site is an evaluation of where total population growth in California counties, or growth of specific racial groups, exceeded what was previously forecast. Within Los Angeles County, we have posted a unique set of *animated maps* that traces the spread of racial diversity from 1940 to 2000. We call these maps, displays of growing "racial majorities." The site also includes measures of exposure and dissimilarity from 1940 to 2000 for four main race-ethnic groups. Soon to be added is a summary of changes in composition and growing diversity for specific communities in the Los Angeles area. Of general interest to all: the site includes a resource of some importance. "Overlap" is the title of our multi-section user guide to race and Hispanic origin in Census 2000. The major changes in the 2000 census necessitate much more careful consideration by all census data users. We welcome your visit! http://www.usc.edu/sppd/census2000 Dowell Myers Project PI -- -- Dowell Myers Director, Master of Planning Program School of Policy, Planning & Development 301 Lewis Hall Phone: (213) 740-7095 University of Southern California FAX: (213) 821-1466 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626 Internet: dowell(a)rcf.usc.edu http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~dowell/ http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/futures/ http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/admissions/excellence/