Thanks for the synopsis, Chuck… I’ll check out the PL 94-171 release. I’d also welcome
feedback from Census staff on the listserv regarding their latest data release
deadlines…
From: Charles Purvis <clpurvis(a)att.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:20 PM
To: The Census Transportation Products Program Community of Practice/Users discussion and
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Subject: [CTPP News] Re: Schedule for Census 2020 Block Group Data Availability
Excellent question, Rob.
The short answer is “tentatively 2022” … That’s an unsatisfying answer, but it’s hard to
glean other, newer, more determinative dates from the Census Bureau. I searched the APDU
and State Data Center Clearinghouse sites, and couldn’t find any further clues.
Here’s the Census page on “About 2020 Census Data Products”
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planni…
And a blog post about “Upcoming 2020 Census Data Products” from September 29, 2021:
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2021/09/upcoming-202…
The basic PL 94-171 population, housing unit and household counts were released last
August (2021). Data is available at the new census block / block group / county / place /
census tract / etc., geographic levels.
Instead of the old-and-familiar SF1 and SF2 (Summary File #1 and Summary File #2) we had
in previous decennial censuses, the Census Bureau is apparently re-branding these products
as Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) and Detailed Demographic and Housing
Characteristics (Detailed DHC, or I guess “DDHC”).
(If you all remember the STF1A and STF2A and STF3A products, well, bless your heart!)
Similar to previous censuses there will be tables down to the block level, and tables (PCT
and HCT tables) only down to the census tract level. (There doesn’t appear to be tables
down to just the block-group level: only blocks or census tracts.) Of course, basic tables
at the block level will most assuredly have a block group summary level.
About two-thirds away down the 2020 Census Data Products page is a downloadable excel
file: “2020 Census Data Product Planning Crosswalk” … I would recommend looking this over.
All of these tables are watermarked as “Pre-Decisional”…. So be warned.
There’s also a 9/29/21 webinar on the “data crosswalk.” I was scanning the transcript of
the webinar, and came across the comments by Census Bureau staff:
"We are getting quite a bit of questions around the schedule. And we have -
while we have not finalized the Release Schedule, we don't have hard release dates.
Again, we
have outlined a lot of the major activities to get us to the DAS implementation, to make
sure
that we're tuning the DAS to provide fit-for-use data, particularly on the
Demographic Profiles
in the DHC and where we have that tentatively set for next year.
Again, once we finalize the implementation, we can further flush out the release
schedule
where we would provide some more definitive dates. Again, right now, our target is next
year,
late next year."
So, “Next Year, Late Next Year”….. Maybe October 2022 for the DHC/SF1/STF1A??
The DHC (formerly SF1) tables will include very relevant 2020 Census data on households by
owner/renter tenure by household size, detailed population by age and sex, detailed
information on households by race/ethnicity of householder, etc., and all of the “short
form” data we’ve known and used over the decades!
cheers,
Chuck
On Jan 21, 2022, at 3:03 PM, Rob Schiffer
<rob.schiffer@futureplan.us<mailto:rob.schiffer@futureplan.us>> wrote:
Is there anyone in the listserv group that can provide an updated schedule on when Census
2020 Block Group data will be available for use in preparing base year socioeconomic data?
Thanks in advance for your insights on this.
-Rob
Robert G. Schiffer, AICP
President, FuturePlan Consulting, LLC
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