Chuck somewhere like slides 51-54 of this presentation from earlier this week, ��is my discussion of workers leaving their res county to work.�� it is a major national phenomenon which I have tracked over the years and Fairfax County is the poster child with an 8,000 difference between jobs and workers and about a half million flows across the county borders.�� I have looked at counties in Md where they have similar J/W ratios close to one and there are massive flows ��� so much for job worker balance as a solution!�� What we need is the soviet and Chinese approach where the electrical workers cooperative is housed just across the road from the electronics factory.�� Come to think of that we did that back in the bad old days���remember the pathetic houses clustered around the factory gate ��� the whistle blew and everyone went to work.�� I like your index idea ��� what I have used is the ratio of the potential workers crossing the border to the actual. ����Best, Alan

 

Alan E. Pisarski

alanpisarski@alanpisarski.com

703-941-4257 landline

703 650-8925 cell

 

From: ctpp-news <ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net> On Behalf Of Charles Purvis
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:05 PM
To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] Exploring Jobs/Housing Balance using the American Community Survey: Blog Posts

 

Hello all:

 

I just finished a three-part blog post entitled "Exploring Jobs/Housing Balance using the American Community Survey"

 

I thought it would be of interest to some of you.

 

I'm basically using the commute flow data (county-of-residence, intra-county, county-of-work) from Tables B08007 and B08501.

 

Here are the three posts:

 

 

 

 

The blog home is here:

 

 

This is the kind of "mental floss" activities that I do when I'm not watching baseball or going on international trips. I still get a kick out of it, even after being retired for 9 years and 5 months! :)

 

I have other ideas for this master county-level database, and would love to here from you all, as well.

 

Take care,

Chuck Purvis,

Hayward, Calfiornia

(formerly with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco)