Census Bureau recently released EEO flows (based on ACS 2006-2010) down to
the county and place level. The EEO flows can be accessed from American
Factfinder:
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
Thanks Charles Barber from Baltimore MPO for bringing up Baltimore City
and County workplace geocoding issues in EEO flows. Charles noticed that
"The BEA employment estimate for Baltimore City shows a decrease of
(-59,800) jobs (-13%) between 2000 and 2010. Analysis of BLS and ES2020
also show decreases for Baltimore City employment between 2000 and 2010.
The 2000 Census and 2010 ACS comparison show an increase in 7,500 (2%)
workers reporting a primary work location within Baltimore City. BEA
estimates for Baltimore County show an increase (59,800 jobs) compared
with a small Census/ACS increase (3,500/7%)."
It seems to me that some of jobs in Baltimore county were mistakenly
geocoded to Baltimore City. Baltimore City is an independent city and
have the same street names with those of Baltimore county. We suspect
this is the reason causing the grocoding issues. So if your areas have
the similar county/independent city situation with the Baltimore
county/city, we strongly encourage you to take a look at EEO flows and
share your findings with us.
CTPP 2006-2010, which is scheduled to be out mid-2013, will be using the
same workplace geocoding as those of EEO tabulations. That's why this
issue is very important and if we can discover the problems early, we may
have better chances to get them corrected in the CTPP 2006-2010.
Thanks!
Liang Long
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
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Suite 800
Bethesda, MD 20814
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