# Presentation: 216755

## Census Geographic Programs Update

- Linda M. Franz
- U.S. Census Bureau
- 2010 Census National Partnership Conference with CICs/FSCPEs/SDCs
- April 14, 2008

## MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Program

- Realignment of road centerline data in the MAF/TIGER Database
- Harris Corporation has completed delivery of the 3232 county/county equivalents to the Census Bureau

## 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

- Released March 31, 2008
- Nation-based, state-based, county-based, and American Indian area-based files available

## Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

- Collects boundary and area change information for legal areas
- Also permits review of area names and relationships
- Survey universe includes all legal entities starting in 2008!

## Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

- Response modes
- Paper
- MAF/TIGER Partnership Software
- Digital BAS
- e-BAS for forms submission
- Web BAS (starting in 2009)

## Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

- Annual BAS schedule:
- Advance letters—September
- Materials mailout—January (February for 2008 BAS)
- April 1—response deadline for inclusion in ACS and Population Estimates
- May 31—response deadline for reflection of changes in next survey
- SDC followup for nonresponse

## Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)

- First implemented for Census 2000
- Purpose is to improve the census address list using local knowledge
- Confidentiality of address information
- Met a long-standing interest expressed by governmental stakeholders in the decennial census

## 2010 LUCA Program Status

- Registration closed December 31, 2007
- 11,000+ governments participating (approximately 29 percent of those eligible)
- Materials mailout was delayed

## 2010 LUCA Program Status

- Participants registered by 11/19/2007 have 120 days from materials receipt date to submit updates
- Other participants must respond by 120 days from materials receipt date or April 4, 2008, whichever comes first
- Updates coming in and being processed
- Spatial update issues
- Address formatting issues

## 2010 LUCA Program Status/Milestones

- Census Bureau validates LUCA changes in Address Canvassing operation starting Spring 2009
- Census Bureau feedback to LUCA participants Fall/Winter 2009
- LUCA appeals process conducted Fall/Winter 2009/2010

## Participant Statistical Areas

- Census Tracts
- Block Groups
- Census Designated Places (CDPs)
- Census County Divisions (CCDs)

## Participant Statistical Areas

- Proposed criteria published in the Federal Register, April 6, 2007
- FR Notices announcing final criteria have been published and are available at:
- http://www.census.gov/geo/www/psap2010/psap2010_main.html

## Participant Statistical Areas Criteria Changes (or not!)

- CCDs retained as statistical areas
- CDPs must have population, be single distinct communities, and not be coextensive with governmental active MCDs
- Can use housing unit counts to qualify tracts and block groups

## Participant Statistical Areas Criteria Changes (or not!)

- No change to minimum threshold for block groups
- Provision for special census tracts and block groups with little or no population

## Participant Statistical Areas Program

- Participants:
- Census 2000 participant
- Regional, multi-county organizations
- Local government agency
- Committee of interested organizations, individuals
- To reflect local input and the needs of a wide range of data users
- Participation open to all interested parties
- MAF/TIGER Participant Software for electronic submission of boundaries

**Notes:**
PSAP primary participants in the order they will be approached: 
1)  Federally recognized American Indian tribes with an AIR and/or ORTL (over 1400 population in Census 2000). 
  Regional organizations (regional planning organizations, councils of government, and/or metropolitan planning organizations).  
  Counties. 
  Large cities, if and only if they agree to define all for PSAP areas for their entire county or counties in which they are located.  
  State Data Centers or State Demographers.  

## Participant Statistical Areas Program Milestones

- Participants identified early 2008
- Materials distributed:  Fall 2008
- Participants will have 120 days to review and submit boundaries

## American Indian/Alaska Native Areas

- Tribal census tracts and block groups on reservations/trust lands for federally recognized tribes
- Alaska Native village statistical areas
- Oklahoma tribal statistical areas (OTSAs)
- Tribal designated statistical areas
- Subreservation statistical areas
- Tribal subdivisions on OTSAs

## American Indian/Alaska Native Areas

- Federal Register public comment period open on the draft criteria for Alaska Native areas and American Indian areas
- Comments due 6/16/08 for Alaska Native areas and 6/30/08 for American Indian areas
- Available at:
- 	_[http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tsap2010/tsap2010.html](http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tsap2010/tsap2010.html)_
- Implementation schedule very similar to that for Participant Statistical Areas Program

## Alaska Native Areas Criteria Changes

- Include Alaska Native Regional Corporations (ANRCs) and Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas (ANVSAs)
- No new areas proposed
- ANVSA criteria designed to yield more consistent and comparable areas as well as more meaningful data

## American Indian Area Criteria Changes

- Terminology change:  State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas
- Clarify definition and purpose of OK Tribal Statistical Areas
- Clarify definition, purpose, and criteria for Tribal Designated Statistical Areas and State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas

## American Indian/Alaska Native Areas

- Implementation schedule very similar to that for Participant Statistical Areas Program

## School District Review Program

- Conducted every 2 years by the Census Bureau—now starting 2007-2008 cycle
- Provides the geography for estimates of the number of children aged 5-17 in low income families by school district
- These estimates are the basis for
- 	Title 1 allocations for states
- National Center for Education Statistics distributes the data

## School District Review Program

- Materials have gone out to state participants for them to update their school district boundaries
- Updates have started to come in
- Census Bureau releases preliminary estimates—Fall 2008

## Questions?

- Linda M. Franz
- Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Partnership Programs
- _[linda.m.franz@census.gov](mailto:linda.m.franz@census.gov)_
- (301)-763-9061