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by Ed Christopher

Just got this from the Census Project folks. ------------------------------ Late yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced that it cancelled its scheduled markup of the Poe bill to make the American Community Survey voluntary. This is a tremendous victory for the many individual stakeholders working with the Census Project who either directly contacted individual members of Congress between Friday morning of last week and late yesterday to express opposition to the legislation, or who signed the co-signature letter (http://thecensusproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d1784c40f46dfe51…) to Congress. The letter itself (http://thecensusproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d1784c40f46dfe51…) has been revised in light of developments and was still sent to the committee to put us on record as opposed to the bill. Thanks to everybody for their help. Together we secured an important victory! -- Ed Christopher

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Census Tract Flows Available in Access Format!

by Liang Long

Hi, All We have developed the census tract to census tract flows from the new CTPP 2006-2010. The file includes all tract pairs which present flows from the CTPP 2006-2010 including Puerto Rico. This file only include one measure: total worker counts and its associated margins of error. FIPS codes are also provided for residence and workplace State, County and Census Tract. Tutorial which provides a guide on how to query the database is also available. The file can be accessed from: ftp://ftp.camsys.com/clientsupport/CTPPdata/2006-2010%20tract%20Flows/ Username: 8305CTPP Password: 1900NJA Please note that user name and password are case sensitive. Please let me know if you have any issues accessing the file. Thanks, Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] ACS in trouble again

by Ed Christopher

I got this from our friends at the Census Project. The U.S. House of Representatives is at it again! Next Wednesday, March 12, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform will hold a meeting to mark up Congressman Ted Poe’s (R-TX) bill to make the American Community Survey (ACS) voluntary. If the ACS is made voluntary, participation rates would drop dramatically and the value of the survey would substantially decline. Census Project Co-Director Terri Ann Lowenthal explains the issue in a new blog post today (http://censusprojectblog.org/2014/03/07/from-the-ashes-the-poe-bill-rises-a…). Additional information about the ACS is contained in a series of fact sheets developed by the Census Project (http://www.thecensusproject.org/factsheets.htm), and in a March 2012 letter to Congress (http://www.thecensusproject.org/letters/2012-03-06_Census_Project_voluntary…), from when the House made a similar move. The Census Project only learned of the committee’s intentions last night. We realize it’s a quick turnaround, but we hope your organization can co-sign a letter to congressional leadership (http://www.thecensusproject.org/letters/2014-03-acsbill/CensusProjectACSltr…) by 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) on Monday, March 10. We will then send this important letter to Congress and issue a press release on Tuesday in advance of the committee hearing on Wednesday. If your organization can co-sign the letter (http://www.thecensusproject.org/letters/2014-03-acsbill/CensusProjectACSltr…), please contact Jason Shevrin at jason.shevrin(a)gmail.com by 4:00 p.m. on Monday The Census Project http://www.thecensusproject.org/ -- Ed Christopher

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] Census Bureau webinar on using ACS PUMS - March 13

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Just in case you didn't get a copy of this announcement: ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Dual Vintage Variables Webinar Advanced users learn about the ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) and how to work with dual vintages of variables included in the ACS PUMS files. This presentation will give a background of the ACS PUMS files before explaining how to work specifically with dual vintage variables in the 2008-2012 ACS 5-year PUMS files, including Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA), Occupation, and Industry variables. Date and Time: Thursday, March 13th from 1:00-2:00 PM Presenter: Tim Gilbert Learn how to log-in by visiting the Census Bureau's Educational Resources<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…> page. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 (in Seattle)

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] FYI BLS announcement on QCEW cuts

by Krishnan Viswanathan

BLS Information FONT SIZE:[image: Minus Font Size][image: Plus Font Size] PRINT:<http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/bls/budget2014_enacted.htm> [image: Print]<http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/bls/budget2014_enacted.htm> SHARE ON: [image: share on facebook] [image: share on twitter] [image: share on linkedin] This might be of interest to some folks. 2014 Budget Enacted for Bureau of Labor Statistics On Friday, January 17, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014. The Act provides $592.2 million in funding to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the fiscal year (FY) 2014 that began October 1, 2013. This funding level is $21.6 million below the FY 2014 President's Budget <http://www.bls.gov/bls/budget2014.htm>. In order to achieve the necessary savings for this funding level and protect core programs, the BLS is taking the steps listed below: 1. *Curtail the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).* The QCEW program provides national, State, metropolitan statistical area, and county data on monthly employment and quarterly total wages and the number of establishments, by 6-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and by size of establishment. The BLS will achieve savings largely by reducing the scope and frequency of collection for select units in the QCEW survey that is used to validate and update the NAICS code of business establishments. This will result in a small degradation in the quality of QCEW data and make the QCEW slightly less accurate as a sampling frame. -- Krishnan Viswanathan 5628 Burnside Circle Tallahassee FL 32312

11 years, 5 months

Re: [CTPP] FHWA BAA Notice & Solicitation

by sarah.sun＠dot.gov

The FHWA is now looking to "Advance Transportation Planning through Innovation and Research" through its Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The objective of this BAA is to advance the practice and application of transportation planning among State, metropolitan, regional, local, and Tribal transportation planning governments in response to significant changes in the planning process and to identify new tools, techniques, and approaches that respond to national transportation planning priorities. The FHWA's research program funds innovation such areas as planning capacity building, congestion management, safety planning, public involvement, travel modeling, environmental justice, visualization in planning, freight planning, planning and environmental linkages, and pedestrian and bicycle planning and design. Examples of travel modeling related research may be methodological innovation in * Processing and analyzing large passive data sets collected via various media; * Using large passive data sets for analyzing current travel behavior and forecasting near future travel; * Using large passive data sets to assist calibrating and validating travel modeling techniques; * Providing strategies and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of travel forecasting techniques; To apply, applicants should go to https://www.fbo.gov/ under the heading "Advancing Transportation Planning Through Innovation & Research" to submit your proposal. The Solicitation Number is DTFH6114R00019. Here is the direct link: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=46b5c187590e07a4ee6a60… . Please note: The point of contact is provided in the Solicitation.

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] AUTO: Haining Du is no longer with Cambridge Systematics

by Haining Du

I am out of the office until 01/25/2015. Haining Du is no longer with Cambridge Systematics. If you have questions please contact Feng Liu (fliu(a)camsys.com). Note: This is an automated response to your message "[CTPP] TAZ Update - TAZ Issue resolved" sent on 2/24/2014 4:58:24 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

11 years, 5 months

[CTPP] TAZ Update - TAZ Issue resolved

by Weinberger Penelope

The issue discussed in the email below has been resolved. A new file with TAZ data for workplace TAZ with zero resident populations has been uploaded and incorporated into the CTPP Data Access Software. The data has been field checked and deemed reliable, in as much as small area data are reliable, please pay attention to the large Margins of Error associated with small estimates. "Until approximately January 2014, the data set available does not include workplace data for TAZs with zero (0) populations. This means that any TAZ which consists solely of a special generator (i.e., an airport, a shopping mall, a business park, the pentagon, etc.) does not have its associated workplace data or flow to it available. This is being rectified and a new dataset will be released around January, 2014 that corrects that problem. Fortunately, the data is available at tract even for zero pop tracts, so you can get the data at smallish, just not smallest, level and you can do TAZ to Tract flows" From: Weinberger Penelope Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:27 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: CTPP 5-year data The CTPP 5-year data, based on ACS 2006 - 2010 Census Data, will be released tomorrow Thursday, October 31, 2013, the URL to access the data will be published here. The CTPP Data Access Software is a powerful tool to access the nearly 350 gigs of data provided by the Census Bureau. The Data set consists of nearly 200 residence based tables, 115 workplace based tables and 39 flow tables (Home to work) for over 200,000 geographies. The data are derived from two American Community Survey microdata record sets based on the 2006 - 2010 ACS. One set is the original microdata; all tables derived from this set are designated A, the other set is a disclosure proofed microdata set; all tables derived from this set are designated B. That is to say, the first letter in the table name indicates the set from which the table was derived. For more information on disclosure proofing, please access the CTPP e-Learning module "Disclosure Proofing" at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/ The software contains a robust map tool, for both selecting geography and rendering results. Results can also be presented as various style charts and tables that can be rearranged to suit your analysis and display needs. Data from the tool can be downloaded as comma or semi colon delimited .csv, .xml, .shp, .tab. Some things to be aware of: This is a new software release and it is possible you may find some errors and bugs as you use it. Please use the CTPP Feedback form available in the Help menu to report any problems encountered. (Version 1.1 release, already planned for the near future, reflects corrections to issues discovered after Beta testing.) Please consider this a Gamma version. A PDF tutorial is available in the Help menu and covers much of the software functionality teaching a sample application. The context sensitive (on-line) help has some bugs that are currently being addressed. A series of short film tutorials is available on the CTPP YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram. The YouTube tutorials include a software tour, how to register/logon, opening and rearranging a table/accessing basic data; Geography selection by list and map; Calculating percentages; and Display maps and thematic analyses. If, after you have exhausted all resources you are still having trouble please contact pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger(a)aashto.org> for a walk through, but please try to find your solution from available resources first. Training is rolling out both in person and online, we will keep you posted. Downloads are limited to 100,000 cells. If you need to download large tables they will need to be split up and stitched back together in excel (or another program). We are developing a background downloader for large files. In the meantime, if you simply want all the data for your entire area, send a message to pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger(a)aashto.org> and a set with appropriate documentation will be made available for FTP download. Any very large data set is unsupported and for power users, comfortable manipulating large data sets in statistical software packages that they are already licensed to use. Geographies can be aggregated and margins of error will be correctly re-calculated, but non-standard (user created) saved geographies cannot be mapped - we are working on this. Until approximately January 2014, the data set available does not include workplace data for TAZs with zero (0) populations. This means that any TAZ which consists solely of a special generator (i.e., an airport, a shopping mall, a business park, the pentagon, etc.) does not have its associated workplace data or flow to it available. This is being rectified and a new dataset will be released around January, 2014 that corrects that problem. Fortunately, the data is available at tract even for zero pop tracts, so you can get the data at smallish, just not smallest, level and you can do TAZ to Tract flows Penelope Z. Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 ctpp.transportation.org

11 years, 5 months

Re: [CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Nationwide County Flow File is available!

by Liang.Long.CTR＠dot.gov

Thanks for pointing this out. So our users can be aware of that for the FIPS codes variables, there is no preceding zero. Actually, I did this on purpose. I like the way to keep FIPS code to number, not characters. In this way, the first 0 got dropped of course. The reason I don't like keep FIPS code as characters is that when you import the data into SAS or other statistical software, you easily get lots of blank spaces before and after the value and when merging it with other files using FIPS code, it cause lots of tourble. ________________________________________ From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] on behalf of Catala, Martin [catala(a)cutr.usf.edu] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 10:49 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Nationwide County Flow File is available! Thanks FYI I think there is something off with the file. It seems when I import the file into mysql OR open it in note pad the county FIPS code is truncated for Alabama Autauga county FIPS should be 01001 instead of 1001. We are able to work around this with a few clever SQL statements but for others it might present a challenge. Thanks again. From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Liang Long Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:44 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Nationwide County Flow File is available! Hi, all We have developed this county flow file from CTPP 2006-2010. The file includes flows by means of transportation from CTPP 2000, CTPP 2006-2008 and CTPP 2006-2010. Margin of Error is also included for CTPP 2006-2010 and CTPP 2006-2008. The readme file is also provided. You can download the data in CSV format from the following link: ftp://ftp.camsys.com/clientsupport/CTPPdata/County%20Flows/MOT/ Username: 8305CTPP Password: 1900NJA Please note the username and password are case sensitive. Enjoy! Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com<mailto:llong(a)camsys.com> www.camsys.com

11 years, 6 months

Re: [CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Nationwide County Flow File is available!

by Catala

Thanks FYI I think there is something off with the file. It seems when I import the file into mysql OR open it in note pad the county FIPS code is truncated for Alabama Autauga county FIPS should be 01001 instead of 1001. We are able to work around this with a few clever SQL statements but for others it might present a challenge. Thanks again. From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Liang Long Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:44 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] CTPP 2006-2010 Nationwide County Flow File is available! Hi, all We have developed this county flow file from CTPP 2006-2010. The file includes flows by means of transportation from CTPP 2000, CTPP 2006-2008 and CTPP 2006-2010. Margin of Error is also included for CTPP 2006-2010 and CTPP 2006-2008. The readme file is also provided. You can download the data in CSV format from the following link: ftp://ftp.camsys.com/clientsupport/CTPPdata/County%20Flows/MOT/ Username: 8305CTPP Password: 1900NJA Please note the username and password are case sensitive. Enjoy! Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com<mailto:llong(a)camsys.com> www.camsys.com

11 years, 6 months

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