Dear Everyone-- I know that reviewing this spreadsheet might seem tedious, but I encourage you to review it and provide your comments via the listserv, or to me directly. The current status is that the residence-based tabulation have been approved by the DRB for 2004 ACS data. The workplace-based tables are still draft, and have not yet been approved by the DRB. Any comments that we provide now will not likely change the 2004 data tabulation, but could be considered for the 2005 ACS data tabulation. This is IMPORTANT because the 2005 ACS data is the first data from "full implementation." One comment on this set that arose at the TRB Census conference held May 11-13, was to add to the AGE breakout "65 to 74" and then "75 and over". This is because more people are continuing to work after age 65 and we need to start tracking these trends. I noticed that several tables include "earnings" but there are no tables using "household income" as a variable. Do you want something that cross-tabulates a Journey-to-work variable with household income? e.g. Household income * Means of transportation to work, or household income * # of Vehicles.? To get the spreadsheets, please use the CTPP listserve archives at: http://www.chrispy.net/pipermail/ctpp-news/ to find Phil's attachments from his May 9th email. Elaine Murakami elaine.murakami(a)fhwa.dot.gov FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 (in Seattle) -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net]On Behalf Of phillip.a.salopek(a)census.gov Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:20 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] Draft Proposal for Transportation-Related Data Products from ACS for 2004 and Beyond I will be delivering a presentation this week in Irvine CA at the Transportation Research Board Conference, "Census Data for Transportation Planning: Preparing for the Future." I've put together a handout to go along with the presentation which outlines the transportation-related content in some new and/or revamped ACS data products. These proposals have not received final approval yet, so are still subject to change. But I've been asked to post them to the listserve to reach a wider audience. The bottom line is that the standard products from ACS will have a lot more tables on the characteristics of workers than have been previously produced in either the ACS or in the decennial census. And for the first time ever, there will be data tabulated by workplace geography in a standard Census Bureau data product. The handout does not cover all products from ACS, just two new types of products ("selected population profiles" and "subject tables") and a major revision to the detailed tables (to be called "base tables" in the future). You should print out the various worksheets to look at them, since there is useful information in the headers and footers that does not show up when you are just looking at the sheet on the screen. --Phil (See attached file: Irvine-Handout_Proposed_ACS_Standard_Tables.xls)