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From: "Richard E. Hoskins" <rhoskins@home.com>
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Subject: Fw: MI Best Small Area Demographic Data
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:54:04 -0700
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WAPHGISers:  From another listserve but an issue we are concerned about. 

Dick Hoskins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tim Rood <trood@seanet.com>
To: Mapinfo <mapinfo-l@csn.net>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:45 AM
Subject: MI Best Small Area Demographic Data


> This may be a little off topic in terms of strict
> applicability to MI or MB, but, as a city planner,
> I have lots of uses for small area census
> data---tract, block group and block (zip,
> sometimes, too).  Of course, the 1990 Census data
> getting a little long in the tooth, but, it seems
> that for many measures there's nothing more
> current that can compare. Who else would have
> things like mode of transportation to work by how
> long you've lived in the neighborhood
> (compulsives: I said "like;" I doubt this
> particular cross tab is real)?  I've heard of
> vendors who claim to update certain census
> variables by small area geography.  I get the
> impression that this type of product revolves more
> around the "disposable income" sort of data rather
> than the kind that planners would more likely use
> (population, age, housing units and households,
> ownership, rents, sometimes ethnicity and
> socioeconomic data). Anybody use this and have an
> opinion on how good it is?  
> What about techniques of using some of the data
> that is collected between the decennial census and
> at a larger geographic scale (either by the census
> or other entities) and using it to update some of
> the small area data. Does anybody have a good
> angle on that approach?  
> Thanks for all responses.
> Tim Rood
> Ravenna Planning Associates
> Seattle, WA
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