Number range CHAPTER**Tuesday, September 26, 2006**

**7:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee**

**8:00 a.m. Welcome** Louis Kincannon, Director, U.S. Census Bureau

Howard Hogan, Associate Director for Demographic Programs

Enrique Lamas, Chief, Population Division

> Tori Velkoff, Assistant Division Chief for Population Estimates and
> Projections, Population Division
>
> Linda Gage, Federal State Cooperative Program for Population
> Estimates, California

**8:45 a.m. Branch and Team Updates**

Bashir Ahmed, Methodology Research and Development Branch

Mike Batutis, Population Estimates Branch

Rodger Johnson, Local Government Estimates and Migration Processing
Branch

Linda Gage, Chair, Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population
Estimates

**9:15 a.m. Vital Statistics Workshop**

**How the data are used**

> **Collection of data and Processing**
>
> Larry Sink, Population Estimates Branch
>
> Amy Smith, Methodology Research and Development Branch

**10:30 a.m. Break**

**10:45 a.m. Media Relations Workshop:**

**What are they looking for and how to get the word out**

Paul Overberg, USA Today

**11:45 a.m.** **Person Based Migration**

> Hyo Park, Local Government Estimates and Migration Processing Branch

**12:15 p.m.- 1:15 p.m. LUNCH with Susan Schechter**

**1:15 p.m. Addressing ACS Issues**

> ACS Staff

**2:30 p.m**. **Group Quarters** **Differences Between the GQR and the
GQ Pilot Project**

Mike Batutis, Population Estimates Branch

**2:45 p.m**. **GQ Pilot Project**

**State Experiences/GQ Subcommittee Report**

**How to incorporate project**

> Annetta Smith, Decennial Management Division
>
> James Farber, Decennial Management Division

**3:30 p.m. Break**

**3:45 p.m**. **GQ Pilot Project (Continued)**

> Annetta Smith, Decennial Management Division
>
> James Farber, Decennial Management Division
>
> Jim Hibbs, Minnesota Jack Baker, New Mexico
>
> John Malson, California Greg Williams, Alaska
>
> Judy Hadley, Georgia Warren Brown, New York

**4:45 p.m. Adjourn**

**Wednesday, September 27, 2006**

**8:00 a.m. Coffee**

**8:30 a.m. Walkthrough of State and County Estimates Methodology
Training**

Mike Batutis, Population Estimates Branch

Katie Wengert, Population Estimates Branch

Winnie Colon, Population Estimates Branch

Emma Ernst, Population Estimates Branch

Barbara Martin, Population Estimates Branch

**10:30 a.m. Break**

**10:45 a.m. Estimates Review Training**

**What data are most useful for review**

**What to look for when reviewing**

Mike Batutis, Population Estimates Branch

Katie Wengert, Population Estimates Branch

Winnie Colon, Population Estimates Branch

Emma Ernst, Population Estimates Branch

Barbara Martin, Population Estimates Branch

**12:30 p.m. -- 1:30 p.m. LUNCH**

**1:30 p.m. FSCPE Charter**

John Holmes, ActioNet

**2:00 p.m. Update on the Strategic Planning and Innovation**

Nancy Gordon, Associate Director for Strategic Planning and Innovation

**2:30 p.m.** **LUCA**

> Linda Franz, Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Partnership
> Programs, Geography Division

**3:15 p.m Break**

3:30 p.m. Linking Survey and Administrative Record Data:

Developing the Medicaid Undercount Study

Ron Prevost, Chief, Data Management Branch, Data Integration Division

**Day Time Population**

Ron Prevost, Chief, Data Management Branch, Data Integration Division

**4:00 p.m. Report on Meeting Data Users Needs Conference**

Signe Wetrogan, Population Division

**4:30 p.m. Adjourn**

**Thursday, September 28, 2006**

**9:00 a.m. Coffee**

**9:30 a.m. Research and Methods Subcommittee Report**

Jim Sylvester, Montana

**9:45 a.m. Consolidation of State Age Sex Estimates with State
Characteristics Estimates**

Larry Sink, Population Estimates Branch

**10:15 a.m. Subcounty Estimates Workshop**

**What is most/least useful**

**Housing unit changes**

Greg Harper, Local Government Estimates and Migration Processing Branch

**11:45 a.m Adjourn**

> Tori Velkoff, Assistant Division Chief for Population Estimates and
> Projections, Population Division