# Presentation: 805166

## Developing LCO Tract Action Plans

- Marvin D. Raines

- Census 2000 Tract Action Plans

## An Introductory Quote

- “In preparing for battle I have always found that ***plans are useless***, but ***planning is indispensable***.”
- 	Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 	Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, World War II

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## To Target and Quantify

- Hard To Recruit Tracts
- Hard to Enumerate Tracts
- Special Situation Tracts

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## Constructing the Plans

- Action Plans Origins
- Regional Census Center Staff (RCC)
- Local Census Office Staff (LCO)
- Headquarters Staff (HQ)

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## 1990 Planning Database

- Hard to Count Areas
- Low Mail Response Areas
- Questionnaire Assistance Centers Areas
- Be Counted Sites Areas
- Outreach & Promotion Areas
- Recruitment & Other Areas

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## RCC & LCO Input

- Regional Director
- Assistant Regional Census Mgrs.
- Area Managers
- Partnership Specialists
- Regional Geographers
- Regional Recruiters
- Regional Technicians
- Local Census Office Management

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## Action Plan Categories

- Hard to Enumerate
- Hard to Recruit
- Special Situations

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## Mitigation Tools

- Pair/Team Enumeration
- Blitz Enumeration
- Bilingual Enumerators
- Guides & Local Facilitators
- Be Counted Form Sites
- Questionnaire Assistance Centers

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## Mitigation Tools (Cont’d)

- Urban & Rural Update/Enumerate Enumeration
- Urban Update/Leave Enumeration
- Other Locally Developed Strategies

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## Hard to Recruit Plans

- Language Skills
- Multicultural Requirements
- High Turnover Expectations
- Indigenous Staffing Requirements
- Difficult Economic Conditions

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## Special Situation Plans

- Migrant Workers
- Seasonal Populations
- Militia compounds
- Gated Communities
- High Crime Areas
- High Growth Areas
- Access Problems

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## Action Plan Worksheet

- Each tract evaluated from 1990 Planning Database for
- Hard to Count Score > 70
- Non Response Rate > 35%
- Each tract rated by RCC for current status
- Hard to Enumerate
- Hard to Recruit
- Special Situations

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## Action Plans Structure

- Worksheet for each LCO
- A line for each Census Tract

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## Census Tract

- A Census Tract consists of one or more blocks
- 120 tracts in average LCO
- Over 60,000 Census Tracts in the 50 states & Puerto Rico
- A Plan for Every Census Tract – Tract Action Plan

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## HTR & Special Situations

- Write In entries for
- Other Strategies
- Hard to Recruit
- Special Situation

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## The Summary Line

- The summary line, a count of the entries in each column and is linked to the RCC Summary Plan

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## RCC Summary Plans

- Each LCO summary line is linked to one column on the RCC summary plans

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## RCC Summary Columns

- The RCC Totals column is cumulative for all LCOs
- Several cumulative lines are added to the RCC Summary

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## RCC Summary Charts

- The RCC Summary plans have charts designed to facilitate comparison of the LCO plans

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## National Summary Plan

- Each RCC summary column is linked to one column on the National Summary
- All RCCs combined

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## National Summary Charts

- The National Summary Plans also have charts designed to facilitate comparison of the RCC plans

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## LCO Qualitative Plans

- For challenging situations not concentrated in single tracts
- One Column for each LCO

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## Special Characteristics

- These plans are for general difficulties in the office as a whole.
- The summary column for each RCC is linked to a National Summary for Qualitative Plans

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## Linking of the Plans

- The LCO Tract Action Plans are linked to the RCC Summary Plans
- The RCC Summary Plans are linked to the National Summary
- Updates to LCO plans load thru the links in the RCC Summary and National Summary plans
- The Qualitative Plans are also linked

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## Reality Check

- Virginia, Alexandria LCO
- Tract 1038 - 2K Rate 37.4%
- Hard to Count from 90 Data

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## Plans from LCO & RCC

- Virginia, Charlottesville LCO
- Tract 0006 – 2K Rate 39.3
- HTE from LCO/RCC Review

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## Plans in Adjacent Tracts

- Virginia, Virginia Beach LCO
- Tract 0047 - 2K Rate 35.4
- Adjacent Tracts Have Tools

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## A Parting Quote

- “In preparing for Census 2000, I have found that *plans are useless*, but *planning is indispensable*.
- Marvin D. Raines
- Associate Director for Field Operations
- 	 US Bureau of the Census

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