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The death knell is sounding for the Census Bureau's long form. Attached
is a notice that appeared last week in the Federal Register. It is
seeking comments by March 18, 2002 on the execution of the long. Read
it carefully and comment appropriately. Note that there is no mention
of TAZ level data. The original notice can be found on the Government
Printing Office Website at
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a020116c.html
Once at this page just slide down to the "Census Bureau" heading.
ed christopher
fhwa-midwestern resource center
708-283-3534
The Transportation Research Board's Subcommittee on Census Data for
Transportation Planning will be meeting at the TRB Annual Meeting on
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:30 PM. Attached is the agenda.
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For those of you who were not Census data analysts when the 1990 Census data was released, you may be interested in Dowell Myers' book, "Analysis with Local Census Data, Portraits of Change," Academic Press, 1992. This is an excellent reference covering Census Bureau definitions, but more importantly, discusses how to use Census data in trend analyses. Users of Census 2000 data need to be careful in analyzing race data, since in 2000, respondents were able to select more than one answer.
I just checked on Amazon.com and it is listed for $73.95, with 2 used copies avail for less than the new price.
You may also be interested in Dowell's webpage:
www-ref.usc.edu/~dowell
which has other demographic analyses, mostly in California.
The TRB Census Data Subcommittee is sponsoring a workshop on the Census
American Community Survey at the annual meeting this year. The workshop
will be held Sunday, January 13th in the Hilton-Lincoln West room from 8:30
to noon. An agenda is attached - we hope you will be able to join us!
If you cannot make it, but have policy or technical questions, please email
them to me by Thursday, January 10th so that we can incorporate them into
the workshop discussions.
Stacey Bricka
Research Director
NuStats
3006 Bee Caves Rd, Ste A300
Austin, TX 78746
(512) 306-9065, ext 2240
Fax (512) 306-9077
After the announcement of the 1990 Urbanized Areas, the Census Bureau had to
quickly come up with a map product that showed the extent of the 1990 UAs to
support the planning activities of the MPOs. With that experience in mind,
the Census Bureau's Geography Division is planning to produce several
products that show Census 2000 urbanized areas (UAs) and the new urban
clusters (UCs).
The products we are planning to produce include the UA Census 2000
TIGER/Line files, UA Outline Maps, and generalized boundary files for the
UAs/UCs (the shape files will be similar to what we have produced for other
geographic areas for Census 2000). We expect the first product to be
available will be the UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line files which we hope to have
available for all counties shortly after the announcement of the Census 2000
UAs in the Federal Register, tentatively scheduled to be late March, 2002.
(Note: The Federal Register Notice with the final criteria is still being
drafted -- we received a substantial number of responses to the draft
criteria that we
will respond to in the Federal Register Notice. We do not yet have a target
date for the publication of the final criteria.) We are working on having
Chapter 6 of the UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line file documentation (the record
layouts) available shortly on our web site. Maps for the UAs and
generalized boundary files also would be available although probably not as
quickly.
To ensure that we design these map products to meet most users' needs, we
are asking that you take a few minutes and provide us with information that
will help us plan for the necessary content and design of a map type. We
expect these maps to be "large format" -- E-size -- and use color. One map
type you might want to look at when thinking about the questions below is
the Census 2000 Census Tract Outline Map that you can download from the web
in PDF format:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/CP_MapProducts.htm
1. How do you plan to use a map that shows the extent of an urbanized
area/urban cluster? Try to describe what you would do with the map to
support your work and interests using urbanized areas and urban clusters.
2. What information (content) is important beyond the actual boundary?
For example, do you need to know the type of feature that forms the
boundary?
Do you need to know every segment or feature type in areas where the
boundary frequently changes direction? Do you need to know the name of the
feature (road, river, railroad etc.), where there is one available?
Please provide comments back to the Geography Division within the next 10
days (before TRB). You may e-mail your
questions/comments/suggestions/answers to:
ua(a)geo.census.gov
Geography Division staff expect to be at the TRB Subcommittee on Census
Data for Transportation Planning meeting (A1D08(1) Ed J. Christopher, chair;
Wednesday, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Hilton, Georgetown East).
Bob LaMacchia
Geography Division
301-457-1022
rlamacchia(a)geo.census.gov
After January 1, the City of Pueblo/Pueblo MPO will be opening and
advertising for one professional position specializing in travel demand
modeling at the level of Sr. Transportation Planner. This position will be
located in the Department of Planning and Community Development of the City
of Pueblo and will be a classifed Civil Service position with a beginning
salary in the $40,000 - $45,000 range (with excellent benefits) depending on
individual qualifications. The Pueblo Area Council of Governments
sub-delegates and contracts with the City for all the regional
transportation planning functions in both the urban and rural areas.
Although the primary emphasis will be on maintaining and updating the MPO
transportation model (currently in TransCAD), the position will also entail
some general transportation planning for sub-areas and neighborhoods. These
will be used along with the model (which will incorporate both CTPP
information and the results of an O-D survey planned for 2003) to update the
current Long Range Plan to the 2025-2030 time horizon by 2005. The person
selected will be responsible for incorporating mode-split and transit
planning capabilities within the TransCAD platform, and possibly working
with other GIS tools such as ArcView, AutoCAD, etc.
The city of Pueblo is located at I-25 and US50 on the Arkansas River,
approximately 105 miles south of Denver and 40 miles south of Colorado
Springs. Based on 2000 Census figures, the population of the City is
101,121; the County population is 141,472; and the new "3C" area population
will be in the 130-135,000 range. The City owns the Pueblo Transit system
(bus-only at present), and rural transit is provided by a number of local
non-profit organizations. Pueblo County covers a land area of more than
2,400 square miles and contains Lake Pueblo State Park -- one of the largest
lakes in Colorado. For additional information visit the websites at
www.ci.pueblo.co.us, www.co.pueblo.co.us, or www.chieftain.com.
And for my fellow economists out there, the ACCRA Cost of Living Index (2nd
quarter, 2001) for Pueblo is 92.7 which ranks it 38th lowest among 301 urban
areas in the US, and the lowest in Colorado. For comparison, Denver is
109.5, Los Angeles-LongBeach CA is 140.0, Manhattan NYC is 232.5, and even
my old hometown of Austin, TX is 106.1. The Housing cost index in the
Pueblo area is only 80.3 compared to Denver at 121.0. The current
unemployment rate is 6.2% (up from 4.3% a year ago).
I will send along the formal job description with qualifications and
application procedures as soon as it becomes available from our Human
Resources Department and Civil Service Commission. Meanwhile, if you think
you might be interested in the position, please feel free to get in touch
with me by phone, fax, mail or e-mail. HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL!!!!
Bill Moore, M.ITE, Senior Transportation Planner
Pueblo MPO - City of Pueblo
Dept. of Planning and Community Development
211 E. D Street, P.O. Box 1427
Pueblo, CO 81003
Phone: (719) 583-4485 FAX: (719) 543-0572
E-mail: bmoore(a)ci.pueblo.co.us
