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by Sam Granato

See weblink below for a job opening at a metro planning agency in the eastern US. http://www.triplew.org/notices.htm Sam Granato Ohio DOT, Office of Technical Services 1980 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43223 Phone: 614-644-6796, Fax: 614-752-8646 "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer

19 years, 2 months

[CTPP] income sources

by Kendra Watkins

I am compiling income data for our region at the TAZ level and have 2 sources to choose from, the CTPP TAZ income data by place of residence or the SF3 block group income data modified to fit our DASZ structure. I wonder if I could get some thoughts on which source might best represent a 2000 snapshot by TAZ. Thank you, Kendra Kendra Watkins Senior Data Analyst Mid-Region Council of Governments 809 Copper Ave. NW Albuquerque, NM 87102 (505) 724-3601 kwatkins(a)mrcog-nm.gov

19 years, 2 months

RE: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections

by Miller

You can look at an analysis of northern and central NJ county-to-county commuting patterns and trends from 1980 to 2000 at: http://www.njtpa.org/planning/census2000/2000JTWAnalysis2.pdf (a 2.2 MB PDF file) Sincerely, Keith Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Miller Manager: GIS and Forecasting North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, Inc. One Newark Center, 17th floor Newark, NJ 07102 973-639-8444 phone 973-639-1953 fax kmiller(a)njtpa.org -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of TMarchwinski(a)njtransit.com Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 3:31 PM To: edc(a)berwyned.com; ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Cc: Mluebbers(a)oki.org Subject: RE: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections We looked at county commuting patterns from 1980 to 2000 for Northern NJ (including to NY), and once tried to use trends to establish new forecasts, the problem we ran into was the growth in inter-county trips was so high in many cases, that if you just extrapolated the trends you wound up with non-sensical intra-county commuting trips, to the point that some counties had only 20% or 25% of their work trips intracounty. WE had to modify this on a case by case basis, and established a floor below which intracounty commuting would not fall below. That was using 1980-2000 as a basis. I really think this is a case by case analyis based on each metropolitan area. In my opnion you really need to look at results and not wholly use trends, and going back to 1970 may not make sense given it was so different and pre 1973 with oil prices. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:27 PM To: ctpp-news maillist Cc: Mary Luebbers Subject: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important question. Mary Luebbers wrote: > Ed: > To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county > commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data > and its precursors)? > > Thanks. > Mary S. Luebbers > OKI Regional Council of Governments > Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress.. .While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there? Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim Soot (March 2003) http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by Todd Steiss (August 2003) http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003) http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461 _______________________________________________ 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

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] Change in Census Bureau contact for CTPP

by phillip.a.salopek＠census.gov

In mid-April, Clara Reschovsky left her position here at the Census Bureau to take a job with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. It has come to our attention, however, that email addressed to her at the Census Bureau is still going through as though it is being delivered normally. Therefore, if anyone has sent Clara email since about April 12, 2006 it is sitting, unread, in her email account. Nanda Srinivasan at FHWA is still the first point of contact for CTPP support, but any future inquiries you would normally have sent to Clara should instead be addressed to me at phillip.a.salopek(a)census.gov. Clara did a terrific job for us here at the Bureau and we were sorry to see her go, but we wish her all the best at MWCOG. If you have a chance to talk to her in her new position, make sure you tell her how much you enjoyed working with her on the CTPP. Thanks. --Phil Salopek

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] ACS Course Offering

by Ed Christopher

We all know that there are lots of commercial vendors hawking census data products. While I would not like to see this list turn in to a vendor free-for-all I thought this class taught by Cynthia Taeuber was somehow different. FYI... -------- Subject: Online Course: Using the Census's American Community Survey Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:36:09 -0400 From: Cynthia Taeuber <cmtaeuber(a)direcway.com> To: cmtaeuber(a)direcway.com I am going to teach a 4-week on-line course about the American Community Survey starting May 19. The announcement from statistics.com, the company that sponsors it, describes the course below. I wrote materials for the course. http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/census/index.html -------- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] CTPP Status Report

by Ed Christopher

The latest issues of the "CTPP Status Report" newsletter is now posted at http://www.TRBcensus.com The direct link is http://www.TRBcensus.com/newsltr/sr0406.pdf In this issue are several articles using census data for transit planing as well as an update on some potential changes to block groups and tracts. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

19 years, 3 months

RE: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections

by TMarchwinski＠njtransit.com

We looked at county commuting patterns from 1980 to 2000 for Northern NJ (including to NY), and once tried to use trends to establish new forecasts, the problem we ran into was the growth in inter-county trips was so high in many cases, that if you just extrapolated the trends you wound up with non-sensical intra-county commuting trips, to the point that some counties had only 20% or 25% of their work trips intracounty. WE had to modify this on a case by case basis, and established a floor below which intracounty commuting would not fall below. That was using 1980-2000 as a basis. I really think this is a case by case analyis based on each metropolitan area. In my opnion you really need to look at results and not wholly use trends, and going back to 1970 may not make sense given it was so different and pre 1973 with oil prices. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:27 PM To: ctpp-news maillist Cc: Mary Luebbers Subject: [CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important question. Mary Luebbers wrote: > Ed: > To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county > commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data > and its precursors)? > > Thanks. > Mary S. Luebbers > OKI Regional Council of Governments > Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress.. .While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there? Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim Soot (March 2003) http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by Todd Steiss (August 2003) http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003) http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461 _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] Re: Commuting Patterns Projections

by Ed Christopher

I am passing this question I got on to the CTPP listserve in case anyone can add to discussion. I hope Mary does not mind--its an important question. Mary Luebbers wrote: > Ed: > To your knowledge, has anyone developed projections of inter-county > commuting patterns based on trends from 1970 to 2000 (from CTPP data > and its precursors)? > > Thanks. > Mary S. Luebbers > OKI Regional Council of Governments > Mary--I have not seen any but that does not mean that someone hasn't done it. Personally, I could think of a hundred reasons to pick at any projections especially if I didn't like the look of the numbers but that does not mean that the flow history wouldn't be able to add some insights and dimension to any projections. Projections always flow better when they appear tied to some historical context, but I digress.. .While these are not exactly projections they are some examples of how I have seen county flows presented: Anyone others out there? Chicago Area Commuting Patterns and Trends by Ed Christopher and Siim Soot (March 2003) http://www.berwyned.com/papers/co2cochgo.pdf Example of County-to-County Flow Maps for North Carolina prepared by Todd Steiss (August 2003) http://www.TRBcensus.com/articles/nc_flowmaps.pdf Web page on County-to-County Worker Flows in Bay Area and Northern California (Data Released: March 6, 2003). (Updated: March 12, 2003) http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/county2county/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] CENSUS NEWS BRIEF

by edc＠berwyned.com

STAKEHOLDERS URGE LAWMAKERS TO SUPPORT CENSUS BUDGET PLUS: Brookings Sponsors Census Forum on Hill; Census Bureau Rejects Change in Prisoner Count; and more. A diverse group of organizations sent a letter last month to members of the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees that fund the Census Bureau, expressing support for the Presidents proposed Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07) budget for the 2010 census and American Community Survey. Organized by The Census Project, stakeholders told lawmakers that the Presidents request of $878 million for the bureau represents the minimum needed to ensure effective preparations for the decennial count and comprehensive data collection in the American Community Survey. The letter highlighted the shift from planning to preparation activities for the 2010 census, including finalizing questionnaire content; preparing for the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal in San Joaquin County, California, and the Fayetteville, North Carolina, region; developing the technological framework for data processing and field data collection; and completing modernization of the digital mapping system (TIGER). The American Community Survey (ACS), stakeholders wrote, is one of the most prudent investments the government can make in sound planning and program development and evaluation. Insufficient funding, they cautioned, could force the Census Bureau to drop group quarters coverage or reduce sample size, placing a complete transition from the census long form in jeopardy. The letter also mentioned the need to fund final preparations for the 2007 Economic Census and Census of Governments, and noted concerns about the Administrations proposal to terminate the Survey of Income and Program Participation before development of an alternative program. Seventeen stakeholder organizations, representing local governments, scientific disciplines, civil rights and ethnic community advocates, and housing interests, signed the letter. A copy of the March 28 letter is posted on the The Census Project web site at www.thecensusproject.org. For more detailed information on the Presidents FY07 budget request for the Census Bureau, see the February 6 Census News Brief, also posted on the web site. Commerce Secretary defends Census Bureau budget before House funders: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce on April 5, in support of the departments $6.1 billion budget request for FY07. The proposed budget, Gutierrez said in his written testimony, reflects both the Administrations commitment to promote and sustain economic growth and opportunity, and the need to restrain discretionary Federal spending. The Secretary said each of the departments agencies supports one of three strategic goals. The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), both part of the Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA), advance the goal of provid[ing] the information and tools to maximize U.S. competitiveness and enable economic growth for American industries, workers, and consumers. The Administration requested $80.5 million for ESA headquarters and BEA, which publishes key data on the nations economy, including the Gross Domestic Product. The Census Bureau, Gutierrez told appropriators, serves as the leading source of quality data about the Nations people and economy. The Secretary noted that the 2010 census comprises the largest component of the bureaus $878 million proposed budget, a trend that will continue through 2010 because of extensive planning, testing, and development activities related to the short form. The Secretary is tentatively scheduled to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science early next month. Brookings highlights importance of census to Congress: The Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, hosted the first in a series of briefings on Capitol Hill to educate congressional staff and other stakeholders about the importance of an accurate census. The briefing, called The Road to the 2010 Census: Implications for Apportionment, Redistricting, and the Economy, was organized in conjunction with the House Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, which oversees the Census Bureau. U.S. Chief Statistician (Office of Management and Budget) Katherine Wallman chaired a panel presentation on the nuts and bolts of the census process and why an accurate census is important for congressional apportionment, redrawing legislative districts, and decision-making in the private sector. Preston Jay Waite, Associate Director for the Decennial Census, reviewed the status of planning for Census 2010. Content for the census and ACS must be finalized by January 2007. Compared to the 2000 census, Mr. Waite said, the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) program will begin earlier and give more time for local officials to review preliminary address lists; LUCA will be completed by October 2008, so that census workers can begin block-by-block canvassing to confirm addresses. Joseph Salvo, Population Division Director in New York Citys Department of City Planning, focused his remarks on what he called the sizable and growing number of housing units in communities of all sizes for which traditional mail-out/mail-back enumeration does not work well. Dr. Salvo described multi-unit homes and apartment buildings without separate apartment numbers for each unit, often in areas with sizable immigrant populations. He suggested an alternative counting method, called Update/Enumerate, in neighborhoods where this type of housing is pervasive. In Update/Enumerate, a version of which the Census Bureau has employed previously in areas with non-traditional housing such as Indian reservations, census takers go from building to building with an address list, correcting the list as necessary and enumerating each unit as they go. Mr. Waite acknowledged the value of alternative approaches, but cautioned that Update/Enumerate is far more expensive than collecting information by mail and that the Census Bureau must effectively identify and target neighborhoods where difficult address situations are clustered in order for the method to work. Cathy McCully, chief of the bureaus redistricting office, discussed the five-phase program for meeting legal requirements (Public Law 94-171) to provide states with detailed census tabulations used in redistricting. Michael Carliner, Staff Vice President for Economics at the National Association of Home Builders, described the important uses of ACS data in the private sector, including analysis of investment and growth opportunities, labor markets, consumer demographics, and housing needs. John Cuaderes, staff director of the census subcommittee, told the audience that it is Congress obligation to ensure an accurate census in 2010. The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), is reviewing federal funding formulas that rely in whole or in part on data from the old census long form, to help authorizing committees develop new legislative language that would tie funding to ACS data instead. Mr. Cuaderes urged census stakeholders to work together in support of adequate funding for the census and the ACS and to contact legislators with influence over the budget process. Census Bureau rejects change in prisoner count: The Census Bureau has concluded that changing the way it counts prisoners in the census would result in increased cost [and] decreased accuracy for a possibly large proportion of millions of individuals confined on Census day, according to a report released in February. Such a change could also have a negative impact on the count of other so-called Group Quarters, such as college dorms and military barracks, the report said. The report, Tabulating Prisoners at Their Permanent Home of Record Address, was prepared at the request of Congress in the bureaus 2006 funding bill. Under current Census Bureau rules, inmates are counted at the facility where they are incarcerated. The bureau estimates there will be 2.6 million people (adults and juveniles) in federal, state, and local correctional institutions in 2010. The Census Bureau would need specific address information in order to include prisoners in block-level census counts used for redistricting. The Census Bureau considered two methods for enumerating prisoners at their pre-incarceration address: compiling the necessary data through administrative records or interviewing all inmates individually. Administrative records from the Justice Department and local correctional facilities are incomplete, inconsistent, and not updated, the bureau found; some prisoner records do not contain complete addresses or addresses that match the census Master Address File. The Census Bureau determined that it would have to individually interview all prisoners, which would require extensive coordination with corrections officials and special procedures to ensure safety and confidentiality. In addition, the bureau concluded, it would have to verify all addresses that do not match its master address list and also would have to interview residents of the address provided to confirm that the prisoner is somehow related to that household. It would cost $250 million to interview all prisoners, the bureau estimated. According to the report, the Census Bureau enumerated about two million prisoners in 2000 through a combination of special questionnaires used in Group Quarters (called an Individual Census Report) and administrative records. The bureau authorized and trained staff at many correctional facilities to help administer the count. The report noted that, There is no generally agreed-upon definition of permanent home of record. In 1990 and 2000, members of the armed forces and federal civilian employees stationed overseas during the census were counted at their home of record for purposes of congressional apportionment only, using administrative records from federal agencies. Home of record in the military indicates where the service member lived when he/she enlisted, often many years in the past. Congress grappled for several years with the question of where to count this population before the House of Representatives approved a bill to include overseas military and federal personnel at their home of record in the state population totals used for apportionment. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY), a member of the appropriations panel that funds the Census Bureau, said in a press release that the report had not evaluated all options fully. This Census report ignores a central tenet of the Census Bureaus mission: to provide an accurate picture of our nation, the congressman said. Counting prisoners at their pre-incarceration address is important, he said, because their home communities must help released prisoners reintegrate into society [and] assess their funding priorities. Rep. Serrano criticized the report for only examin[ing] one option for implementing this alternative counting process and for not analyz[ing] several lower cost possibilities. The congressman also said he believed that implementing a fair and precise census is worth the cost. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, an advocate of counting prisoners at their pre-incarceration address, also criticized the bureaus report, saying the Census Bureau focuses primarily on the most burdensome and expensive way to collect information. The Centers executive director, Michael Waldman, said the report shows either short shrift in a work product, or a shocking lack of creativity and vision. The Centers Criminal Justice Program submitted its own report to the bureau in February, Home in 2010: A Report on the Feasibility of Enumerating People in Prison at their Home Addresses in the Next Census. The document suggested several methods for determining a home address for inmates, including administrative records, distributing census forms to prisoners, conducting interviews if necessary to ensure complete information, and counting people who do not have a home address at the correctional facility. The Census Bureaus report is available on the agencys web site at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/tabulating_prison…. The Brennan Centers report is available at http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/cj/Home%20in%202010.pdf. Significant Census 2010 contracts awarded: The Census Bureau has awarded several major contracts covering field data collection and data processing for the 2010 census. The agency awarded a five-year, $600 million contract to a team led by Harris Corporation, for development of hand-held computers that census takers will use to collect information from households requiring personal visits. Harris, which also is responsible for updating the digital geographic mapping system (TIGER), is teaming with Unisys, Accenture LLP, Sprint, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle, and other companies to supply the IT infrastructure, support services, hardware and software for the Field Data Collection Automation Project. Under a separate contract, Microsoft Corporation will provide mobile-phone software for 500,000 handsets to be used by enumerators in the field. The Census Bureau has also started reaching out to advertising and public relations companies in anticipation of developing its campaign to promote the 2010 census. The bureau met with industry representatives in February to discuss objectives for a census promotion and outreach campaign and to better understand current industry practices. The Census Bureau has not said when it will issue a Request for Proposal or how much the contract would be worth. Advertising powerhouse Young & Rubicam led the promotion team in 2000 under a contract worth about $100 million. Census advisory committee spring meetings: The Census Bureaus five Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees will meet on April 26 28; the 2010 Census Advisory Committee will meet on May 11 12. The Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations is scheduled to meet on May 18 19. All meetings are open to the public. Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent consultant in Washington, DC, with support from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and other organizations. Ms. Lowenthal is also a consultant to The Census Project, sponsored by the Communications Consortium Media Center. 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 202/484-3067 or by e-mail at TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com. Please feel free to circulate this document to other interested individuals and organizations. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461 _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

19 years, 3 months

[CTPP] CENSUS NEWS BRIEF

by edc＠berwyned.com

19 years, 3 months

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