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2010 Census and Local Partnerships
New Jersey State Data Center
Annual Network Meeting
June 2, 2009
New Brunswick, NJ
Philip Lutz
Assistant Regional Census Manager
Philadelphia Region, U.S. Census Bureau
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Partnership Mission
• Reduce the Differential Undercount
• Increase the Mail Response Rate
• Use Local Knowledge and Resources in the Census Process
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Examples of Partnerships
• Complete Count Committees• Partnership Agreements• Questionnaire Assistance Centers / Be
Counted Sites• Census In Schools• Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)• Statistical Areas• Boundary and Annexations
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NJ Complete Count Committees and Partnership Agreements
• Hard to Count Areas and Populations are Targeted
• Sixty Four Organizations in Complete Count Committees
• Seven Hundred Seventy Six Partner Organizations Agreements
• Eligible for Partner Support Program
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Somerset
Hudson
Morris
Hunterdon
Mercer
Middlesex
Essex
Camden
Cumberland
Gloucester
Bergen
Burlington
Monmouth
Union
Warren
Sussex
Somerset
Salem
Passaic
Ocean
Cape May
Atlantic
Partner Organizations
Complete Count Committee
County
2000 Pop
64,285 - 102,437
121,989 - 146,438
252,552 - 350,761
423,394 - 522,541
608,975 - 615,301
750,162 - 884,118
Partner Organizations and Complete Count Committees
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New Jersey Partnership Staff
• More than 25 Partnership Specialists and Team Leaders
• More than 50 Partnership Assistants
• Language and Cultural Experience
• Stimulus Hiring by August 2009
Questionnaire Assistance Centers / Be Counted Sites
• Neighborhood / Local sites
• In Language Materials
• Identify Sites – late 2009 to early 2010 through Partnership Specialists
• Operation from mid March to mid April
• QACs – paid staff, approximately 15 hours per week
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Census in the Schools
• Create Awareness of the Census
• Children Become Census Advocates in the Home
• 2010 Census Lessons, Materials, Event Ideas
• English and Spanish Materials
• Encourage Census Week 9
Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)
• Established by Public Law 103-430
• LUCA Participants Receive Feedback (Fall /Winter)
• Option 1 and 2 Participants Can Appeal
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LUCA in New Jersey
• Option 1 – The State, 4 Counties, 121 Local Governments
• Option 2 – 1 County, 6 Local Governments
• Option 3 – 2 Counties, 12 Local Governments
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Participant Statistical Areas Program
• Census Tracts, Block Groups, and Census Designated Places
• 17 County Agencies and 1 Regional Planning Agency in NJ
• Boundary Verification by Participants in 3rd and 4th Quarter 2009
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Tribal Statistical Areas Program
• Three Tribes in NJ. All are delineating their SDTSAs through NJ Commission of Indian Affairs.
• Ramapough Mountain Tribe (Passaic & Bergen)• Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape (Cumberland)• Powhatan Renape (Burlington)• Sand Hill (Monmouth) is currently not state
recognized but are partnering with Census
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2010 Census Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)
• January 1, 2010 Boundary
• All Governments Eligible
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? QUESTIONS ?
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