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I'm forwarding this message that a colleague received from the state
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Chuck Purvis, MTC
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The Census 2000 will be using 2 new classification systems. NAICS or
North American Industry Classification System will be used for
classifying employment by industry. SOC or Standard Occupational
Classification will be used to classify occupations.
I encourage you to become familiar with the SOC revisions and to
submit comments. Thanks.
Patricia Roberts
paroberts(a)mt.gov
406.444.4393
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is seeking public comment
on the Standard Occupational Classification Revision Policy
Committee's (SOCRPC) final recommendations for revising the 1980
Standard Occupational Classification's (SOC) occupational units and
aggregate groups presented in this notice. The SOCRPC has developed
a new occupational classification system that will cover all jobs in
the national economy, including occupations in the public, private,
and military sectors.
All Federal agencies that collect occupational data will use the new
system; similarly, all State and local government agencies are
strongly encouraged to use this national system to promote a common
language for categorizing occupations in the world of work. The new
SOC system will be used by the Occupational Employment Statistics
(OES) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for gathering
occupational information. It will also replace the Bureau of the
Census' 1990 occupational classification system and will be used for
the 2000 Census. In addition, the new SOC will serve as the framework
for information being gathered through the Department of Labor's
Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which is in the process of
replacing the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).
Request For Comments: OMB welcomes comments with respect to any topic
related to occupational classification, but is specifically
interested in comments concerning:
(1) the hierarchical structure of the new SOC presented in Appendix A
below, especially the minor group, broad occupation, and detailed
occupation organization within the structure, and the numbering
system used, and
(2) the establishment of ongoing review and update procedures and a
time frame for future revision as outlined in the "Next Steps in
Process" recommendations near the end of the Supplementary
Information section below. It is anticipated that the next major
review and revision of the SOC will begin in 2005 in preparation for
use in the 2010 Decennial Census.
DATES: To ensure consideration all comments must be in writing and
received on or before October 9, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Correspondence about the adoption and implementation of
the SOC as shown in this Federal Register notice should be sent to:
Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, Office of Management and
Budget, 10201 New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503,
telephone number:
(202) 395-3093, FAX number: (202) 395-7245.
Inquiries about the definition of particular occupations or requests
for electronic copies of the SOC structure should be made to Laurie
Salmon, Standard Occupational Classification Revision Policy
Committee, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4840, Washington, DC
20212, telephone number: (202) 606-6511, FAX number: (202)
606-6645.
Electronic Availability and Comment: This document is available on
the Internet from the Bureau of Labor Statistics via WWW browser and
E-mail.
To obtain this document via WWW browser, connect to
(http://stats.bls.gov/soc/soc_home.htm).
This WWW page contains previous SOC Federal Register notices and
related documents as well. To obtain this document via E-mail, send
a message to socrevision(a)bls.gov.
Comments may be sent via E-mail to OMB at soc(a)omb.eop.gov (do not
include any capital letters in the address). Comments received at
this address by the date specified above will be included as part of
the official record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Bugg, 10201 New Executive
Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20503, E-mail address:
pbugg(a)omb.eop.gov, telephone number: (202) 395-3093, FAX number:
(202) 395-7245.
To review the full Federal Register notice and specific
classifications/defnitions, go to:
http://stats.bls.gov/soc/soc_home.htm
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Vol. 2 - No. 39 Aug. 10,
1998
As of Aug. 1, 7,475 cities, counties, and tribal governments
had signed confidentiality agreements with the Census
Bureau, enabling them to take part in the Local Update of
Census Addresses (LUCA) Program, a new activity in which
local and tribal governments can review and check the
accuracy of Census 2000 address lists.
The Census Bureau's Geography Division also reported that as
of Aug. 1 a total of 10,362 of the 17,311 governmental units
in which house-number and street-name addresses are used for
mail delivery had responded -- the overwhelming majority
positively -- to the Census Bureau's invitation to
participate in the address-list review opportunity.
The Census Bureau's Geography Division said officials in all
of the jurisdictions had signed and returned forms pledging
that they would protect the confidentiality of the address
lists. Signing of the confidentiality agreements was a
prerequisite for the Census Bureau to generate the
corresponding portions of the address lists handed over to
officials in each
of the jurisdictions.
Local officials will match the Census Bureau address list
against their own address lists and inform the Census Bureau
of any corrections or additions. They have three months from
the time they receive the list and the large-scale (36" x
42") map sheets for their jurisdictions to complete their
reviews.
Local and tribal governments can review the census address
list in different ways. Some choose to do a comprehensive
review, including field checks, but others have indicated
they will employ a less intensive approach and focus on
areas where addresses are more likely to be missed - newly
constructed housing, apartment buildings with irregular or
missing numbering schemes for individual units, areas along
jurisdictional boundaries, etc.
Under a law passed by Congress in 1994, the Census Bureau
was directed to develop a program that would allow local and
tribal governments to provide assistance in verifying the
accuracy of its address list, which will be used in Census
2000 as the framework for conducting the census.
In early 1999, the Census Bureau will offer a similar
address-list review opportunity for areas that use other
mail-delivery methods. Staff from the Census Bureau's
Regional Census Centers have been conducting training
sessions for local and tribal participants, and will be
available throughout the program to answer questions. A
toll-free telephone number (888-688-6948) will direct calls
from participants to the appropriate census offices.
Participants receiving computer-readable files can receive
technical assistance by calling a contractor-operated help
desk at a toll-free telephone number (888-879-6656).
For further information concerning this bulletin, contact
Catherine McCully of the Census Bureau's Geography Division
on 301-457-8630 (fax: 301-457-4710; e-mail:
luca(a)geo.census.gov).
The 1997 American Community Survey Online
Data for more than 65,000 areas accessible on the Internet
at <http://www.census.gov/cms/www>
New areas surveyed include Franklin County, Ohio, Douglas
County, Neb., and Fort Bend and Harris counties, Texas. Two
years of data are available for Rockland County, N.Y. and
Multnomah County and Portland, Ore. The 1997 data appear in
both summary and area-profile formats.
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Vol. 2 - No.
38 Aug. 6,
1998
Both President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley
issued separate statements yesterday (Aug. 5) following the
House of Representatives' vote rejecting a move to lift
restrictions on the Census Bureau's Fiscal Year 1999 budget.
They follow in their entirety:
Statement by the President
"I am very disappointed that the House failed to adopt an
amendment to the FY99 Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations
bill that would have removed onerous restrictions on the
Census Bureau's plan for the decennial census. By failing
to adopt this amendment, the House is undermining the Census
Bureau's ability to plan and conduct an accurate decennial
census.
"To ensure a fair and accurate count, my Administration has
supported the 2000 census plan developed by the experts at
the Census Bureau that was based upon recommendations by the
National Academy of Sciences. It is a plan that will correct
the inaccuracies of the 1990 census, which missed millions
of Americans and disproportionately undercounted children,
minorities, and residents in urban and rural communities.
This is the first census of the 21st Century, and we must
ensure that the census, the single most important source of
information about the American people, is accurate.
"Congress must remove these restrictions. It is critically
important that the Census Bureau have the funding it needs
to implement its 2000 census plan -- a plan that will
produce the most accurate census in history using the best,
most up-to-date scientific methods."
Statement of U.S. Commerce Secretary William M. Daley
"The House of Representatives voted today to limit FY 1999
funding for the 2000 Census to the first six months of the
coming fiscal year, while holding captive the Census
Bureau's remaining decennial census funds until Congress
decides how our nation's next count shall be conducted. Such
an action represents a veiled attempt to prevent the use of
proven scientific statistical methods, endorsed by the
National Academy of Sciences and the vast majority of
non-partisan statistical experts and professional
organizations, to ensure the most accurate census ever
conducted. I will urge the President to veto the Commerce,
Justice, State Appropriations bill should it come to his
desk with this restrictive language.
"I was disappointed that the House failed to adopt the
amendment offered by Representative Alan Mollohan which
would have restored full-year FY 1999 funding for Census
2000, allowing the Bureau to continue its current planning
for the decennial census. The Bureau is in the process of
conducting critical large-scale operations, such as the
creation of the address lists, the contracting for the
printing of census forms, the purchasing of advanced data
processing equipment, and the hiring of thousands of
workers. These and other activities are essential to a
successful census. Without the certainty of full-year
funding, the Bureau cannot move forward with these
operations and the prospects for Census 2000 are greatly
undermined.
"The Administration remains absolutely committed to
conducting the best census in our nation's history, one
which accounts for all Americans regardless of race,
economic status, or geographic location. To do this requires
FY 1999 budget certainty from the Congress and a plan that
utilizes the most modern scientific techniques. I call upon
the Congress to remedy this problem and fund the Census
Bureau with its full-year appropriation. The American people
deserve our very best in fulfilling this vital
responsibility."
For further information about this bulletin, contact either
Mary F. Hanley (202-482-4883) or Karen A. Cowles
(202-482-1523) of the Commerce Department's Office of Public
Affairs.
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:23:28 -0400
From: census2000 <census2000(a)ccmc.org>
House Approves Funding Restriction on Census Operations,
Rejecting Mollohan Amendment
Appropriators Also Say Operational Problems Put Census At
Risk
The House of Representatives yesterday approved, by a vote
of 225 - 203, a $34 billion spending measure that includes
$952 million for 2000 census preparations but withholds half
of that amount until Congress and the Administration agree
on a final census design by March 1999. On a mostly party
line vote of 201 - 227, the House rejected an amendment
offered by Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) to remove the funding
restriction. The amendment also would have required the
Census Bureau to continue planning for the census on dual
tracks until the Supreme Court rules on two pending lawsuits
challenging the constitutionality and legality of sampling
in the census.
In two hours of debate, supporters and opponents of the 2000
census plan sparred over the validity of scientific methods
to augment direct counting efforts, constitutional
requirements, and the timing of a final resolution of the
controversy over census methods. Rep. Mollohan said his
goal was to "again focus the debate on issues of science and
accuracy," and noted that the Bureau needed $644 million to
carry out census preparations through March 1999, $169
million more than the funding bill allows. He warned that
the funding split proposed by critics of the Bureau's plan
would be "fatally destabiliz[e]" the census. Rep. Harold
Rogers (R-KY), head of the Commerce appropriations
subcommittee, said the two-part arrangement represented an
agreement
between the President and congressional Republican leaders
last November to resolve the dispute over methods next
spring. The President was afraid that his "radical plan for
polling" would not withstand public scrutiny, Rogers said.
Rep. Dan Miller (R-FL), chair of the census oversight panel,
praised parts of the Bureau's 2000 plan, including the move
to paid advertising. He condemned the proposed use of
scientific methods, however, saying that the Bureau will
"intentionally not count 26 or 27 million people," but
instead will use "cloning techniques" to create a "virtual
population." Rep. Miller suggested that administrative
records, including data on Medicaid recipients, could help
reduce the undercount. The Census Bureau decided not to
collect social security numbers after tests showed a
significant drop in response if people are asked to give
that information. Social security numbers would be needed
to access most government records. Rep. Tom Sawyer (D-OH),
who headed the census subcommittee during the last census,
pointed out that direct counting methods resulted in a large
number of mistakes in 1990, including a 38 percent error
rate during the final weeks of the door-to-door visits.
The Fiscal Year 1999 Commerce, State, Justice, and The
Judiciary Appropriations bill (H.R. 4276) also includes $4
million for the Census Monitoring Board. The Senate passed
its version of the funding measure (S. 2260) on July 23. A
conference committee of the House and Senate must resolve
differences between the two bills, and both chambers must
give final approval to the conference agreement, before
sending it to the President for a signature or veto.
While the controversy over sampling continued to dominate
public debate, House appropriators also raised serious
concerns about the progress of certain key census
preparations. In a written report explaining provisions of
the Commerce bill in more detail, the funding committee
noted that the Bureau faces problems with "every major
component and activity of the Census plan," including
address list development, outreach, and computer software to
weed out duplicate forms. The fiscal year 1999 bill
includes $32 million above the Bureau's request for
additional promotion and outreach efforts and $82 million
more to open local census offices earlier than originally
planned. The committee directed the Bureau to provide
Congress with monthly reports on how it was spending its
2000 census funds.
Census Monitoring Board activities: On August 5, the Census
Monitoring Board visited Columbia, South Carolina, one of
three sites where the Census Bureau is trying out procedures
for the 2000 census. The Bureau agreed last year to conduct
a dry run without using scientific sampling methods in
Columbia and eleven surrounding rural counties. The
Monitoring Board also planned to hear testimony from
Regional Census Bureau Director Susan Hardy and local
government officials and community leaders.
Questions about the information contained in this News Alert
may be directed to TerriAnn Lowenthal at (202) 484-2270 or,
by e-mail at <terriann2k(a)aol.com>. Please direct all
requests to receive News Alerts, and all changes in
address/phone/fax/e-mail, to Keri Monihan at
<kmonihan(a)ccmc.org> or 202/326-8728. Please feel free to
circulate this information to colleagues and other
interested individuals.
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Vol. 2 - No. 37 Aug. 5,
1998
About 15,000 temporary workers, armed with clipboards, lists
and small-area maps, headed late last week into the remoter
parts of the countryside where dwellings do not have
city-style house-number and street-name addresses. Their
job: to verify the accuracy and currency of the Census
Bureau's address information.
It was the first major Census 2000-related operation visible
to the general public in communities across the country. The
preparations will culminate on Census Day, April 1, 2000.
The address-listing operation is crucial to an accurate and
complete census since the resulting master address list will
be used for delivering questionnaires, following up with
nonrespondents and as the universe from which to draw
representative samples.
The operation covering "non-city-style" address areas will
be conducted in three waves, generally working from north to
south, although the first wave will take place, to some
extent, in all 12 of the Census Bureau's regions. The first
wave, with "listers" working out of 82 census field offices,
will extend to Sept. 11.
The second wave, in which 199 field offices will
participate, runs from Oct. 8 through Nov. 19. The third
wave, involving the remaining 120 offices, is scheduled to
take place from Nov. 9 through Dec. 18. By the time the
non-city-style address-listing operation is completed, some
30,000 temporary workers will have been employed. Later,
other address listers will do similar checking in urban and
suburban areas where housing units have city-style
addresses.
The current corps of address "listers" worked in two-person
teams, driving down country roads and dirt paths to obtain
complete and accurate addresses for every habitable dwelling
and then, "spotting" them on local-area maps.
In many cases, address listers interviewed residents to
determine the most accurate addresses for cabins, trailers,
converted barns, packing houses, boxcars, even caves. In
agricultural areas, they visited farms, fields and orchards
in search of migrant workers' living quarters.
News coverage in sparsely-settled eastern San Diego County,
Calif., helped listers working those areas. According to
Census Bureau area manager Julie Ly, several listers were
greeted warmly by residents, who offered to help them locate
sheds and mobile homes being used as housing that could not
have been spotted from the roads. The residents heard about
the address-listing operation on local radio stations.
Two of the oldest applicants for the address-lister job were
an 84-year-old woman from New Hampshire, who asked the
recruiter, "I think I'm young enough to do this job, don't
you, dear?" and an 82-year-old in Douglas County, S.D., near
Sioux Falls. Both women were veterans of past censuses, the
South Dakota woman starting in 1950.
The address-listing job is open to retired people, most
current federal government employees, students, people who
want to work a second job -- in short, anyone 18 or over who
passes the written test and has four to five hours available
during the day or evenings and on weekends. Since they
generally must be familiar with the areas on their maps,
most end up working close to their homes.
U.S. citizenship is required, except where specific language
needs exist and a qualified U.S. citizen is not available.
Address listers also must have a driver's license and
reliable transportation. In Spanish-speaking areas, the
Census Bureau has tried to hire bilingual people who can
communicate with local residents.
For further information about this bulletin, contact J. Paul
Wyatt of the Public Information Office on 301-457-3052 (fax:
301-457-3670; e-mail: pio(a)census.gov).
Dear Urban Mobility Professional,
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Management and will be sent to the subscriber the end of next week (August
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In the September issue we will be discussing Logistics. I would like to ask
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Thank you and best regards,
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P.O. Box 917
6200 AX Maastricht
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