# Presentation: 234966

## State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center Annual National Training ConferenceGeographic Programs Update

**Linda M. Franz**
**U. S. Census Bureau**
**September 23, 2004**

## Topics: 

- Staffing and Organizational Changes
- Geographic Partnership Goals
- MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement 	Program
- Boundary and Annexation Survey
- Local Update of Census Addresses 	(LUCA)

## Staffing and Organizational Changes

- Division Chief:  Robert A. LaMacchia
- 3 New Branches and an Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Partnership Programs

## Staffing and Organizational Changes (more)

- National Geographic Partnerships Team (Chief:  Randy Fusaro)
- Tribal/State Geographic Partnerships Team (Acting Chief:  Randy Fusaro
- Local Geographic Partnerships Team
- 	(Chief:  Al Pfeiffer)

## Staffing and Organizational Changes—Why??

- Unify points of contact on geographic partnership programs
- Seek efficiencies by coordinating **across** different geographic partnership programs
- Census Bureau regional offices continue their important implementation role

## Geographic Partnership Goals

- Use local knowledge effectively and efficiently (e.g. better coordination among programs, more automated participation)
- Make census and survey data more useful and relevant to our partners and data users (e.g. determine, along with partners, whether new areas for data tabulation needed)

## Geographic Partnership Goals (more)

- Communicate program information clearly, completely, and on time
- Apply lessons from Census 2000 to improving address list partnerships (e.g. use more communication avenues and give participants more time to decide on participation)

## Geographic Partnership Goals (more)

- Honor the government-to-government relationship between the Census Bureau and American Indian Tribes
- Support e-government initiatives and make the National Spatial Data Infrastructure a reality

## Some Key Strategies

- Expand participation options to include digital and web-based approaches
- Leverage cooperation potential among state, regional, and local government entities
- Use tribal, state, and local GIS to improve TIGER positional accuracy

## Some Key Strategies (more)

- Have **one **LUCA program for Census 2010, but with more time and flexibility
- Ensure geographic areas programs meet current data user needs
- Support geographic standards development, the Geospatial One-Stop, and The National Map

## MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project (MTAIP)

- Why are we realigning TIGER through MTAIP?
- How are we doing MTAIP?
- What is the current status of MTAIP?
- What is the MTAIP plan for future years?

## Why are we realigning TIGER through MTAIP?

**Support use of GPS by Census field staff for surveys and 2010 Census**
**Improve accuracy of block geocodes to 99.6 percent**

## How are we doing MTAIP?

- Contract with Harris Corporation for realignment of TIGER road data to more positionally accurate sources

## How are we doing MTAIP?

- Census RO staff contacting tribal/state/county/local governments seeking street centerline GIS files that meet 7.6 meter CE95 accuracy standard
- Preference is to use partner GIS files as improvement source
- Sources acquired for 2000 counties; 1500 evaluated, two thirds met spatial accuracy requirement

## How are we doing MTAIP?

- Results of tribal/state/county local contacts by Census Bureau RO staff recorded in TIGER Enhancement Data Base (TED)
- TED available to State Data Centers upon request

## How are we doing MTAIP?

- In absence of suitable local GIS source, Harris Corporation seeks an alternative realignment source
- Alternative sources can include private sector GIS files, centerlines extracted from existing or new imagery, or GPS-collected centerlines from subcontractors

## How are we doing MTAIP?

- Harris  and 2 subcontractors use acquired sources to realign TIGER
- Harris returns realigned TIGER to Census Bureau
- Census Bureau performs QA, and updates internal TIGER database

## What is the current status of MTAIP?

- 250 counties done in FY 2003, another 600 will be done by end of FY 2004
- Maps showing source acquisition, source evaluation, and realignment status posted here; will be available on the web under MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project

## What is the current status of MTAIP?

- Feedback to providers of tribal/state/county local GIS files consists of:
- Report on spatial evaluation
- “Local Edition” TIGER/Line with records for “harvested” street name and address range data pending statistical evaluation

## What is the current status of MTAIP?

- Realignment results publicly available starting with:
- 2004 TIGER/Line Files (First Edition), expected 10/04, feature level metadata
- Second Edition 6 months later

## What is the MTAIP plan for future years?

- Harris Corporation’s specific county workload for FY 2005 is being negotiated
- All tribal/state/county/local files proposed as sources must be acquired by the Census Bureau by April 2006
- Maintenance plan under development

## What is the MTAIP plan for future years?

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-  Initial Realignment

-   250

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-   690

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- GFY 2003

- GFY 2004

- GFY 2005

- GFY 2006

- GFY 2007

- GFY 2008

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- Based on House FY05 Mark and Full Future Funding Available

## Boundary and Annexation Survey

- Thank you for your help chasing non-responders and updating contact names!
- Agencies in 16 states assisting in 2005 BAS by helping in various ways to establish the BAS universe (identifying entities with changed boundaries rather than using a population size cutoff).

## Boundary and Annexation Survey

- Entities in counties having completed Harris realignment included in the next BAS even if otherwise ineligible
- Pilot testing a web-based BAS with a few local participants to help clarify requirements for a more general-purpose partnership web tool

## Boundary and Annexation Survey

- Phasing in automated processing of GIS files to report boundary changes in the BAS
- Preparing documentation of requirements for potential submitters—will be available at website

## Local Update of Census Addresses

- Using evaluations and lessons learned from Census 2000 to inform planning
- Potential roles for states under active discussion
- Determining what further research/testing needed for Census 2010
- Plan available end of calendar 2004

## Questions?

**Linda M. Franz**
**Geography Division**
**301-763-9061**
**lfranz@census.gov**