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Decennial Census

Ed Christopher Resource Center Planning TeamFederal Highway Administration

4749 Lincoln Mall Dr. Rm 600Matteson, IL 60443

708-283-3534edc@EdtheFed.com

What happens every 10 years and is the single

most important undertaking of every

person in the US population?

For a free copy of these slidesgo to

edthefed.com

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They Get Counted

Every 10 years the Census Bureau

Now just called The Census Form

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Census (Short) Form

10 Questions Name Sex Age

Relationship Hispanic Origin

Race Owner/RenterTelephone Number

Part Time ResidencyApril Residents

100% Population count

First Census 1790

Constitutionally Mandated

Sets Congressional Seats

Mandatory Participation $100 fine failing to respond $500 fine for lying

2010 is the 23rd Headcount

Census Day became April 1st in 1930

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2010 Census Day - APRIL 1st

February — March 2011 State detailed data releasedLate December 2010 State totals released May through July Non-responding homes visited

April 10- May 21 Workers distribute and collect forms in prisons, barracks, dorms and nursing homesApril 1-10 Second forms mailed to non-responding homes March 29-31 Workers count homeless people at shelters, soup kitchens/food vans, and selected outdoor locations (Under Freeway Bridges)March 22-24 Reminder postcards mailedMarch 15-17 Census Forms mailed to most homesMarch 8-10 Advance letters mailed to most homesFeb 17-19 Advance letters mailed to areas where forms will be delivered in person

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http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/

Mail Back Rates

72% Overall

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Latest Word

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

Mail back response 72%

As of June 28: 99.6% of nonresponse forms completed

June 28 – “Today, in about 50-60 offices, we began a quality assurance operation that double-checks units judged to be vacant on April 1. It also checks units that we couldn’t find and were recommended to be deleted from our list. Finally, it will call on a set of addresses that were added late to the list and couldn’t be visited during nonresponse followup. This operation will visit about 15 million units and last about a month or so, using about 300,000 enumerators.”

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Urban Areas

Urbanized Areas(50,000+)circa 1950

Urban Clusters(2,500 to 49,999)

circa 2000

http://rtc.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/

Sets Census Defined Urban Areas

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(Census Defined) Urban Area (UA) Population + $$$

Federal-Aid (Adjusted) Urban[ized] Area (FAUA) Functional Class

Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) MPO Jurisdiction

What do we do with the Urban Areas?

We take the Urbanized Areas and make MPOs out of them

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100K - Threshold

Grandfathering

200K - Project Selection Authority

1 Million+ Special Funding and Requirements

NARC - Status Quo

AASHTO -Somewhat Vague

FHWA - Internal

House -

Senate -

http://www.ampo.org/assets/685_finalampopdfoverviewappro.pdf

What’s an MPO?

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Status of Census Urban Areas

Summer 2010 CB seeks comments on criteria for defining UAs in Federal Register

Spring 2012 New Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters released

June 11, 2010 webinar on UA Criteriahttp://ctpp.transportation.org/pages/webinars.aspx

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Basis for other things Geographic

Public Use Microdata Areas

TAZs &TADs

New Tracts and Block Groups

Metro/Micropolitan Statistical Areas

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PUMAs? -- What are they?

PUMAs are the zones used for PUMS data

Public Use Microdata Sample

PUMS data is based on individual census records and is available only at large geographic areas. Think of the PUMS dataset as the raw, disaggregate census sample data, at a large enough geographic level necessary to protect the confidentiality of the census respondent.

ACSSample

Standard Tabs

PUMS Records

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Why are PUMAs Important?

Normal ACS Annual Data

● Annual Data

● 65K+

● Note the areas in gray

● We call this Swiss Cheese

NE Illinois (2008 pop estimate)

Chicago

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Why are PUMAs Important?

NE Illinois (PUMAs)

PUMAs are a Tabulation Area for Annual ACS Data

● Represent 100K

● Complete Coverage

● Smaller than Counties

● NO Swiss Cheese

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How many PUMAs should this area have?

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/puma5pct.htm

City of Chicago 2000 PUMAs

2,896,016 (2000 Pop)

Why are PUMAs Important?

- Defines areas for analysis - Tabulation Area for ACS

Who Defines Them? - The Community - Led by State Data Center

When are They Defined? - Summer 2011 - Criteria out Spring 2010???

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2010 Standards for Delineating Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas; June 28, 2010

Text: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-15605.htm PDF: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-15605.pdf

Metro and Micropolitan Statistical Areas

Eliminating Local Option on interchange between 15 and 25%

Limit updates after 2013 update to new areas and doing a big update in 2018

Delineate not Define areas

Laid out naming criteria

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Summary

http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/glance/index.html

December 2010 State pop totals due out

February-March 2011 (P.L. 94-171) State by State population details June 2011 to August 2011 Summary File 1 (SF1)

Spring 2012 (Urbanized Areas released)

October 2012 Urban-Rural Update (pop and housing unit counts)

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