New subject: HISTORICAL files from decennial census "long form" data

8 Sep 2008

First, let me introduce everyone in the CTPP community to Ms. Liang
Long.  Liang has her PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago, so
she is really Dr. Long, but we will not be formal here!  Liang is now
working part-time on CTPP, as contractor to FHWA from Cambridge
Systematics, as was Nanda Srinivasan.  Liang will have my OLD phone
number 202-366-6971 at the USDOT building in Washington, D.C.  The major
part of this job is to provide technical assistance on CTPP.   Her email
address is Liang.Long(a)dot.gov  

Since Nandu's departure from the CTPP program last November, I picked up
a bunch of the tech support calls.  Some of the recent questions have
been on data from 1960!   I found that the CB has scanned a lot of the
printed material.  I asked my friends at the Univ of Washington which is
a government repository library to identify the TABLE NUMBERS from the
printed reports to make it easier to find transportation and "journey to
work" items in the scanned materials.  

HISTORIC FILES from decennial Census "long form"
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm

Hope this information might be useful to you!
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning (Wash DC)

-----Original Message-----
From: Eleanor Chase [mailto:echase@u.washington.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:00 PM
To: Murakami, Elaine
Subject: journey to work table numbers

In the printed volumes there are separate subject reports on journey to 
work, generally v.2, pt 6 (with various subletters) for 60, 70 and 80

For the US summary volume
1960 General Social and Economic Characteristics tables 94, 136, 302,
303

1970 tables 87, 242, 243 US summary; 87, 98 urban/rural; 109 
metro/nonmetro; 132, 137 regions; 151, 152 regions, divisions & states; 
363, 364 SMSA

1980 tables 101, 122, 132, 142, 152, 161, 167, 174 US summary; 101, 112,

122, 132 urban /rural; 101, 112, 142, 152 inside/outside SMSAs; 185,
196, 
205 regions; 238 states

In the Washington state volumes (and the table numbers should hold true 
for other states)

1960 table 64 state; 72 SMSA and places 10K+; 131 SMSA 100K+; 82
counties

1970 tables 50, 61 191 state; 82, 190 SMSA and places 50K+; 72 
metro/nonmetro; 102 is place of work for places less than 50K

1980 Chapter C tables 65, 75, 85, 94, 100, 107 state; 75, 85
urban/rural; 
118, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151 SMSA and places 50K+; 156, 162 places 
10K-50K; 166 places 2.5K-10K; 174, 183 Counties 193 American Indian 
Reservations

Remember that a lot of these multiple tables will break by race and 
ancestry groups in 1980, but the first table is usually the basic totals

Eleanor and Hilary
University of Washington Library 
Government Documents 