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March 5, 2010 No. 89 Census Confidentiality Trumps Patriot Act Provisions Census Director: "We are ready to go." The Rest of the News ... Stakeholder Spotlight ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CENSUS CONFIDENTIALITY TRUMPS PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FINDS The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that Congress did not intend to override the confidentiality protections in the Census Act when it passed the so-called "Patriot Act" (Public Law 107-56, 115 Stat. 272, as amended) in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Title 13, U.S.C., §§8, 9, 214, prohibit the Census Bureau and its employees from sharing any personally identifiable information with any other government agency, courts of law, or any outside entity, and set forth severe penalties for violating the confidentiality of census responses."[I]f Congress intended to override these protections," wrote Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich in a letter to members of Congress this week, "it would say so clearly and explicitly." The chairs of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (Rep. Michael Honda, D-CA), Congressional Black Caucus (Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-NY), wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder in September 2009 at the urging of the Leadership Conference Education Fund and its four national census campaign partner organizations (NAACP, NALEO Educational Fund, Asian American Justice Center, and National Congress of American Indians). The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) also urged the Attorney General in a December letter to issue an opinion confirming the primacy of Census Act confidentiality provisions. The lawmakers asked General Holder to determine whether the Patriot Act, which includes information-gathering and information-sharing provisions, "would supersede the confidentiality protections" in the Census Act. "Distrust and fear triggered by uncertainty surrounding the Patriot Act," the caucus chairmen wrote, "would further undermine efforts to achieve an accurate census in already hard-to-count communities. "Mr. Weich also noted the "long history of congressional enactments protecting [census responses] from disclosure, as well as the established precedents of the courts and this Department" in concluding that "no provisions of [the Patriot Act] override otherwise applicable Census Act provisions barring the Commerce Secretary and other covered individuals from disclosing protected census information." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CENSUS DIRECTOR SAYS, "WE ARE READY TO GO,"AS ENUMERATION STARTS IN RURAL AREAS Census takers are hand-delivering questionnaires in rural communities and other areas without city-style addressing or with intermittent mail delivery (including some Gulf Coast counties recovering from Hurricane Katrina), Census Director Robert Groves told reporters at a press conference on March 1. The "Update/Leave" operation covers 12 million homes and about nine percent of the population. Most American households will receive an advance letter from the Census Bureau next week, letting them know to expect their census forms in the mail the week of March 15 and providing guidance in the five additional languages (Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese) in which the census forms are printed. A thank you/reminder card will follow at the end of the month. The director noted that testing showed the value of multiple contacts in persuading households to mail back their forms. He told reporters that forgetfulness or busy lifestyles, language and cultural barriers, and the independence of young adults on their own for the first time were primary reasons that people don't respond to the census. It costs 42 cents to count each household that mails back its questionnaire; the cost rises to $57 for each household that requires a personal visit to collect information. Dr. Groves told a Senate oversight panel last week that his agency is "well on [its] way to executing the largest non-military mobilization in the United States." Dr.Groves testified on February 23 before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security (Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) on the status of key census operations. At the hearing, the director highlighted successes in final preparations for the 2010 enumeration, while also acknowledging "challenges that remain." "[O]ur biggest risk is the uncertainty presented by the American public's response to the census," the director said. Recruitment is "well ahead of our goal" (117 percent as of January 24), he testified, with two million potential hires already in the pipeline for temporary census positions. Printing of questionnaires for various enumeration operations (e.g. Nonresponse Follow-up; Mail-out/Mail-back; Update/Leave; Group Quarters; replacement mailing) is "on track or ahead of schedule," the director reported. Advance visits to group facilities, to arrange enumeration times and procedures, took place in February. Auditors concerned about IT systems readiness: The Commerce Department Inspector General and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) told senators at the oversight hearing that key IT systems that will manage work flow and payroll for more than a million temporary census workers still face potential performance problems. Robert Goldenkoff, Director of Strategic Issues, GAO, said the Census Bureau's "readiness for a successful count is mixed." He noted that major enumeration activities are "generally on track" and that the agency has addressed previously identified problems, but that "a successful outcome is far from guaranteed." Mr. Goldenkoff added that the Census Bureau "cannot conduct a successful enumeration on its own," calling the decennial census a "shared national undertaking."In his quarterly report to Congress, Inspector General Todd Zinser highlighted potential performance problems with the paper-based operations control system (PBOCS) and said development and testing are still behind schedule, despite staff "working at capacity." He recommended that the Census Bureau focus its efforts on "minimizing the impact of PBOCS limitations during operations." Mr. Zinser also reported on budget overruns during the address canvassing operation, with "wide sisparities" among Local Census Offices. While the IG outlined some "inefficiencies" in travel reimbursement and training costs during last spring's address list updating, he said similar problems "could be expected for any major field operation." However, the IG warned that differences between budgeted and actual costs "do not generate confidence" in the Census Bureau's budgeting process for large field operations. The full set witness testimony from the hearing is available on the subcommittee's website [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh8895TUaIcTBRv…]. Civil rights groups express optimism about census participation: The leaders of several national civil rights organizations held a telephone press briefing on March 1 "to emphasize the need for full participation" in the census and to highlight the activities their organizations are sponsoring at the national and local levels to encourage response in historically hard-to-count communities. The organizations are working together as part of the It's Time. Make Yourself Count. campaign, spearheaded by the Leadership Conference Education Fund. Moderator Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Office Director, described the collaborative campaign's efforts as "focused on meeting people where they are." Outreach activities organized by the campaign include in-language assistance hotlines to help people fill out their census forms, canvassing in low-income neighborhoods, distributing census fliers in ethnic grocery stores, and sponsoring advertisements on buses, radio, and in ethnic media. In addition to Mr. Shelton, representatives of the NALEO Educational Fund, AAJC, and NCAI said they were optimistic that the efforts of national advocates and community-based groups would increase census participation in hard-to-count communities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE REST OF THE NEWS ... House recognizes importance of census: The House of Representatives passed a resolution (H.Res. 1096) on March 3 designating March 2010 as "Census Awareness Month." Sponsored by Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), the measure (which only requires passage by the House of Representatives) encourages everyone living in the United States to participate in the census "to ensure an accurate and complete count." The measure was approved by a vote of 409 - 1, with Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) voting "no" and Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) voting "present." Utah, which failed to gain a fourth congressional district after the 2000 census, filed two unsuccessful lawsuits against the Census Bureau, challenging the exclusion of Mormon missionaries stationed overseas in the state population totals used for congressional apportionment, as well as the Census Bureau's use of statistical methods to impute missing people into the count. H.Res. 1096 also urges state, local, and tribal governments and other organizations to promote participation in the decennial count. There were several Republicans among the 56 original cosponsors, including the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC). The House approved a second resolution (H.Res. 1086) by the same vote count on March 4, recognizing "the importance and significance of the 2010 census" and encouraging Indian Country communities to designate "an elder" to answer the census first. Sponsored by Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA), the measure notes the "trusted" position of elders within Indian communities and suggests that they can influence other members of their tribes to participate in the census. Post-census evaluations have shown a disproportionately high undercount of American Indians and Alaska Natives, especially on reservations, in recent censuses. House committee approves deceptive mailing bill: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday unanimously approved legislation (H.R. 4621) that would require organizations that use the word "census" on their mailings to indicate clearly that the item is not from or affiliated with the federal government and to include the sender's name and return address. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the bill's sponsor, said that non-Census Bureau envelopes bearing phrases such as "Congressional District Census" and "Official Document" "risk confusing people into believing that they have completed their official census form, lowering the census response rate." The congresswoman, a long time member of the census oversight subcommittee, said private organizations were "piggy-backing" on the Census Bureau's multi-million dollar advertising and promotion campaign, "at great cost to all Americans. "Both Democrats and Republicans on the committee criticized recent mailings by the Republican National Committee, senior citizen advocacy groups, and others that have tried to capitalize on the upcoming census to draw attention to their fundraising appeals. For more information on the "Prevent Deceptive Census Look Alike Mailings Act," see the February 10 Census News Brief #87 on the Census Project website [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh884p05Q0yUlFW…]. Number of Census partners hits 200K: The number of official 2010 Census Partners reached 200,000, far exceeding the 140,000 partner organizations for Census 2000, when the program started. The Census Bureau announced that partners had donated more than 35,000 locations for training census workers, saving the agency $339 million in rental costs. Dr. Groves praised the "important role" of partners in "motivating people to fill out and mail back their census questionnaires." The Bureau emphasized that partners "play no role in official census operations and do not conduct the census;" critics of former census partner ACORN had suggested that the nonprofit group would hire staff to go door-to-door to collect information from unresponsive households. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STAKEHOLDER SPOTLIGHT The Unity Diaspora Coalition, a group of leading Black organizations led by the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the National Urban League, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, held a press conference on March 3 at the U.S. Capitol to mark the 30 day countdown to Census Day and to launch a series of events in nine states to encourage Black Americans to participate in the census. UDC activities in March will include town hall meetings and poster and social media competitions. The Coalition also is urging Black immigrants to check the "Black/African American" box in the census race question (question #9 for Person 1) and to write-in their national origin in the space provided next to "Some other race. "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Census Bureau's 2010 Census Advisory Committee, signed on an official 2010 Census Partner. Dr. Martin Regalia, the Chamber's chief economist, said that census data "makes for good government but it is also essential for businesses making investment and operational decisions . to locate retail stores and facilities, to plan marketing campaigns, delineate markets and a host of other uses." The organization represents more than three million businesses, as well as industry associations, and has local chapters throughout the country. Voto Latinounveiled its New York Census Campaign at a press conference in Albany last week. The campaign includes Public Service Announcements featuring Latino entertainers such as Rosario Dawson (the group's founder), Wilmer Valderrama, and Jorge Garcia. Time Warner Cable will broadcast the PSAs using its multimedia capabilities. Volunteers organized by Moving Forward Gulf Coast Inc. canvassed neighborhoods in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward to draw attention to the upcoming census and explain the counting process. Orleans Parish is one of several along the Gulf Coast that are designated "Update/Leave" areas, where census takers will drop off questionnaires and update the address list, looking for housing units that might have been overlooked in previous census operations. "Update/Leave" is used primarily in areas without city-style addressing; the Dallas Regional Census Office decided to use the modified enumeration procedure in selected parishes and counties still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Univision, the Spanish-language media company, will air a half-hour long program on March 27 to provide instructions on how to fill out the census questionnaire. The program will run at 11:00AM Eastern, 10:00AM Central, and 11:00AM Pacific time. Fremont, CA, kicked off its 2010 census effort to promote participation in the Alameda County city yesterday. The public celebration at the Fremont Senior Center featured Census Bureau staff, printed materials, and promotional items. The City of Lincoln, Alabama (population: around 5,000) is holding a Census Lottery to encourage residents to mail back their census forms. According to a February 24th article in The Daily Home newspaper, the mayor and members of the city council are personally contributing $1,500 for three prizes, including one for the resident who comes closet to guessing the city's official population count. People can drop off their completed census forms in a locked box at City Hall and put their Lincoln Census Lottery form in another container. The Census Project sent a letter [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh89ecFi2K-uknY…] to House and Senate appropriators, urging their support for President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for the Census Bureau. Associations participating in the project noted the importance of final 2010 census activities, including data tabulation and publication, as well as early research and development for the 2020 count. Census stakeholders also expressed their support for the Administration's proposed initiative to increase the size of the American Community Survey sample, "to preserve the scientific integrity of the survey and improve the collection of reliable data on smaller population groups (such as ethnic and language minorities)." See the February 1 Census News Brief [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh8_lbWnW5-N4-o…] for more information on the FY2011 budget request. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW RESOURCES FOR CENSUS ADVOCATES TheThe Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, which provides research and policy ideas to help decision makers address the eeds of metropolitan areas, will release a report, Counting for Dollars: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds, on Tuesday, March 9. The report analyzes census-driven federal program funding for Fiscal Year 2008, the latest data available, and includes program-by-program allocation tables for states, the 200 largest counties, and the 100 largest metropolitan areas. The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire issued a new report, Rural Areas Risk Being Overlooked in the 2010 Census [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh8-bQq-65KpPQ9…], by Dr. William O'Hare, Senior Fellow, The Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report concludes that while rural areas are easier to count than urban communities, there are pockets of hard-to-count populations in rural America, including Blacks in the South, Hispanics in the Southwest border region, and American Indians living on reservations in the Southwest and Northern Plains. The author notes several characteristics, including poverty and low educational attainment, that put some segments of the rural population at greater risk of an undercount. LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a national advocacy and educational organization that uses legal resources to advance civil rights and civic participation for Latinos, established a 2010 Census Latino Outreach and Civic Participation Project. Go to http://latinojustice.org/civil_rights/census/ [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh89CEMszm26DQn…] for materials and information that highlight the linkage between census data and political empowerment. TheLeadership Conference Education Fundhas prepared several new fact sheets focused on counting children in the census. The materials highlight how families and communities benefit from an accurate count of children and offer guidance on how to account properly for children on census forms. The fact sheets are available at http://www.civilrights.org/census/census-resources/#children [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh8_Q5Wsc0jsjUz…]. TheIranians Count 2010 Census Coalition, a collaborative effort of 30 organizations dedicated to ensuring the collection of accurate data on the Iranian American population, launched its official website, Iranianscount.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh8-mwJW8V_IoU3…]. The site features information on the importance of census participation and PSAs in English and Persian. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal,an independent legislative and policy consultant specializing in the census and federal statistics. All views expressed in the News Briefs are solely those of the author. Please direct questions about the information in this News Brief to Ms. Lowenthal at TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com [mailto:TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com]. Please feel free to circulate this document to other interested individuals and organizations. Ms. Lowenthal is a consultant to the nonpartisan Census Project, organized by the Communications Consortium Media Center in Washington, DC. Previous Census News Briefs are posted at www.thecensusproject.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103070698780&s=12&e=0011v1_Oicsh884p05Q0yUlFW…]. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

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[CTPP] March 11 CTPP Snapshot webinar: a few spaces (20) available.

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

<https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_r eg.aspx?webconfid=19250> https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_re <https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_r eg.aspx?webconfid=19250> g.aspx?webconfid=19250 Dear everyone -- in case you tried to register and were told that we were out of space, I got 49 more slots this morning, but many of them are already taken! Also, just in case the listserv messes up the URL, the link should be ONE LINE that ends with "=19250" The webinar will be recorded and available afterwards. Thank you for your interest in the CTPP. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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[CTPP] No Car but Drives to Work Alone

by Cook

Thanks to all who responded. I've summarized, paraphrased and quoted below possible reasons below and added a few comments as appropriate: 1. Other modes such as bicycling, motorcycles and motor scooters. (I think these are covered by the data in 20068 ACS table B08141 so they are not likely the source of the problem.) 2. Leased, not owned, autos treated not counted as vehicles "kept for use by members of this household" (This would be a misinterpretation of the ACS question but stranger things have happened. Other types of respondent errors could be in play here as well.) 3. Problem with data imputed by the Census Bureau for non-responders. 4. Using a company car on loan, a zip car a neighbors car, a parent's car or another car sharing service. (ZipCar is popular in Cambridge but I doubt that would cover too many people. Company cars might explain some but again seems an unlikely explanation for almost 700 commutes out of 48,600. Garaging a car not registered in Cambridge is difficult as we require a resident permit for on street parking and off street parking spaces are few and expensive. Over 60% of the housing stock is rentals, often with no dedicated parking space included in the rent.) 5. Non-standard work week such as travel to a conference. (This might be a not insignificant source. I've always been surprised by the number of local residents who JTW data shows as "commuting to work" in California.) 6. Based on the 2009 NHTS, the ACS result seems reasonable. In the 2009 NHTS (weighted results), 12% of persons in zero-vehicle households who travelled to work "last week", did so in a vehicle with one person in it. This works out to be 500k people out of 4,260k. 7. This phenomenon shows up in NHTS as well and appears to be a very real result of the fact that some share of folks used borrowed cars for travel. It may be a young adult who doesn't own a car but has one available from dad, folks renting, folks borrowing etc. In consumer expenditure surveys non-car owning households also have non trival auto related expenses for travel. It is not uncommon for non-car households to travel more PMT in SOV than on transit. In consumer expenditure surveys non-car owning households also have non trival auto related expenses for travel. Thanks to all for your help! Cliff Cook ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original post: I'm hoping someone can help me address this question from a colleague. He put together a table from the 2006-2008 ACS showing mode of journey to work by vehicles owned and came up with surprisingly large numbers who do not won a car yet drive alone to work. No doubt, there are a few people who fit this category but my guess is that this largely is the result of either people misunderstanding the question or some sort of coding problem. Here is an excerpt from his email ( the Cambridge here is Cambridge, Massachusetts): I'm looking at ACS data and specifically at cities and percent workers have no car available. From that I'm then looking to see how those workers get to work. The attached worksheet shows my work. What is strange is that it shows for Cambridge that 6.6% of people without a car available drove alone to work. The percent is similar to Boston. And NYC has 3.4% of workers with No vehicles available driving alone to work. So, the question is, how can someone without a vehicle drive to work alone? Do you have any ideas on this? It could be someone doesn't own a vehicle, but drives a friend's car to work. Or has no car of their own, but uses a company car to get to work. But seems like a high number for this. Can anyone shed any light on this? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clifford Cook Planning Information Manager Cambridge Community Development Dept. 344 Broadway Cambridge, MA. 02139 617/349-4656 FAX 617/349-4669 TTY 617/349-4621 email => ccook(a)cambridgema.gov web site => <http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CDD/>

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[CTPP] No Car but Drive Alone to Work

by Cook

I'm hoping someone can help me address this question from a colleague. He put together a table from the 2006-2008 ACS showing mode of journey to work by vehicles owned and came up with surprisingly large numbers who do not won a car yet drive alone to work. No doubt, there are a few people who fit this category but my guess is that this largely is the result of either people misunderstanding the question or some sort of coding problem. Here is an excerpt from his email ( the Cambridge here is Cambridge, Massachusetts): I'm looking at ACS data and specifically at cities and percent workers have no car available. From that I'm then looking to see how those workers get to work. The attached worksheet shows my work. What is strange is that it shows for Cambridge that 6.6% of people without a car available drove alone to work. The percent is similar to Boston. And NYC has 3.4% of workers with No vehicles available driving alone to work. So, the question is, how can someone without a vehicle drive to work alone? Do you have any ideas on this? It could be someone doesn't own a vehicle, but drives a friend's car to work. Or has no car of their own, but uses a company car to get to work. But seems like a high number for this. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks Cliff Cook ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clifford Cook Planning Information Manager Cambridge Community Development Dept. 344 Broadway Cambridge, MA. 02139 617/349-4656 FAX 617/349-4669 TTY 617/349-4621 email => ccook(a)cambridgema.gov web site => <http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CDD/>

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Re: [CTPP] No Car but Drive Alone to Work

by Rob CASE

Based on the 2009 NHTS, the ACS result seems reasonable. In the 2009 NHTS (weighted results), 12% of persons in zero-vehicle households who travelled to work "last week", did so in a vehicle with one person in it (500k people out of 4,260k). Rob Case >>> ccook(a)cambridgema.gov 3/2/2010 3:52 PM >>> I'm hoping someone can help me address this question from a colleague. He put together a table from the 2006-2008 ACS showing mode of journey to work by vehicles owned and came up with surprisingly large numbers who do not won a car yet drive alone to work. No doubt, there are a few people who fit this category but my guess is that this largely is the result of either people misunderstanding the question or some sort of coding problem. Here is an excerpt from his email ( the Cambridge here is Cambridge, Massachusetts): I'm looking at ACS data and specifically at cities and percent workers have no car available. From that I'm then looking to see how those workers get to work. The attached worksheet shows my work. What is strange is that it shows for Cambridge that 6.6% of people without a car available drove alone to work. The percent is similar to Boston. And NYC has 3.4% of workers with No vehicles available driving alone to work. So, the question is, how can someone without a vehicle drive to work alone? Do you have any ideas on this? It could be someone doesn't own a vehicle, but drives a friend's car to work. Or has no car of their own, but uses a company car to get to work. But seems like a high number for this. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks Cliff Cook ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clifford Cook Planning Information Manager Cambridge Community Development Dept. 344 Broadway Cambridge, MA. 02139 617/349-4656 FAX 617/349-4669 TTY 617/349-4621 email => ccook(a)cambridgema.gov web site => <http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CDD/> _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

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RE: [CTPP] Sakshaug's slides on CS FTP server

by Guy Rousseau

Thanks Liang for sharing the slides, much appreciated,very interesting presentation on a proposed metholodology for using larger area ACS estimates (themselves with a fairly large margin of error, as we know) to synthesize to PUMAs, which are themselves large area geography. However no margins of error are addressed that I can see in the presentation, though the last slide has as "next steps" an item that proposes inquiry into census block groups and census tracts. One potential issue is where do the controls for the small-area data come from if we are somehow coming up with the controls themselves, and then synthesizing cross-tabs from those controls. Among other things, margins of errors are something to keep in mind for NCHRP 08-79. Thanks, Guy Guy Rousseau Modeling Manager Atlanta Regional Commission From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Liang Long Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:50 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] Sakshaug's slides on CS FTP server As many of you are requiring Joe's research materials, I asked Joe's approval for sharing his presentation slides. Here it is: ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/JoeSakshaug_Synthetic.pdf <ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/JoeSakshaug_Synthetic.pdf> Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 9141 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

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RE: [CTPP] CTPP Snapshot: What you need to know right nowREGISTRATION NOW OPEN for March 11 webinar

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Yeah -- I noticed that when I posted it it broke up the http address. Hope that everyone figures this out! Yes, you can access via a conference room, if someone can LOG IN using a machine in the conference room. So, for example, if YOU sign up, and then log in, it should work OK. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Canzoneri, Diana Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:48 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: RE: [CTPP] CTPP Snapshot: What you need to know right nowREGISTRATION NOW OPEN for March 11 webinar Elaine, This will so very helpful. Thank you for organizing this! When pasting in the link you supplied I did initially have trouble linking to the registration webpage until I figured out that I needed to remove the line break and run the URL text together. One question: if we want to have a bunch of City of Seattle folk access the webinar from one or two conference rooms, how do we do that instead of accessing via our own workstations? -Diana Diana Canzoneri Demographer & Senior Policy Analyst Seattle Planning Commission Staff (206) 615-1269 diana.canzoneri(a)seattle.gov Stand Up, Be Counted! www.2010census.gov -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Elaine.Murakami(a)dot.gov Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:01 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net; tmip-l(a)listserv.tamu.edu Subject: [CTPP] CTPP Snapshot: What you need to know right now REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for March 11 webinar Please register today for the CTPP Snapshot webinar. The registration link is: https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_re g.aspx?webconfid=19250 There are 150 spaces available. This informative webinar will be held on Thursday, March 11 from 1- 2:45 pm EST. The Census Transportation Planning Products program is doing many interesting things right now, come and hear: Overview of CTPP - Oversight Board, 5-year plan, research, training, data products, conference, etc; Data products - CTPP Profile Sheets; 3-year CTPP (using 2006-2008 ACS) 5-year CTPP (using 2006-2010 ACS) Resources Question and Answer period Presentors will include: Jonette Kreideweis, Minnesota Department of Transportation; Melissa Chiu, US Census Bureau; Ed Christopher, FHWA Resource Center, and Liang Long, Cambridge Systematics. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

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[CTPP] CTPP Snapshot: What you need to know right now REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for March 11 webinar

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Please register today for the CTPP Snapshot webinar. The registration link is: https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_re g.aspx?webconfid=19250 There are 150 spaces available. This informative webinar will be held on Thursday, March 11 from 1- 2:45 pm EST. The Census Transportation Planning Products program is doing many interesting things right now, come and hear: Overview of CTPP - Oversight Board, 5-year plan, research, training, data products, conference, etc; Data products - CTPP Profile Sheets; 3-year CTPP (using 2006-2008 ACS) 5-year CTPP (using 2006-2010 ACS) Resources Question and Answer period Presentors will include: Jonette Kreideweis, Minnesota Department of Transportation; Melissa Chiu, US Census Bureau; Ed Christopher, FHWA Resource Center, and Liang Long, Cambridge Systematics. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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[CTPP] Sakshaug's slides on CS FTP server

by Liang Long

As many of you are requiring Joe's research materials, I asked Joe's approval for sharing his presentation slides. Here it is: ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/JoeSakshaug_Synthetic.pdf Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 9141 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

15 years, 6 months

[CTPP] Synthetic Data for PUMA using 2005-2007 ACS

by Liang Long

On February 23, Joseph Sakshaug, a Ph.D. Candidate from University of Michigan, gave a presentation at the Census Bureau on data synthesis for small geographic areas. Joe?s research is motivated by the increasing demand for microdata for small geographic areas with simultaneous increase in restrictions of data release at small geography due to the risk of disclosure. While Joe?s research is not focused on transportation data, his research is likely useful to our needs for the CTPP using ACS records. His research utilized county-level data from the 2005-2007 American Community Survey (ACS) and applied it to PUMA geography. He applied a Hierarchical Bayesian model to simulate the synthetic values while accounting for homogeneity within each geographical unit at the PUMA level. Joe tested many variables, including household income, age etc. In his validation the synthetic data were very close to the actual surveys with respect to distributions and means. Joe indicated that the method can be extended to smaller geographic areas such as census tract and block groups. The Westat team working on the NCHRP 08-79 project "Producing Transportation Data Products from the American Community Survey that Comply with Disclosure Rules" also attended the meeting. Joe can be reached by joesaks(a)umich.edu if you want to get more information about his research. Thanks! Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 9141 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

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