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Title: IMPROVEMENT OF DECENNIAL CENSUS SMALL-AREA EMPLOYMENT DATA: METHOD TO ASSIGN LAND USE CLASSES TO WORKERS
Accession Number: 00737952
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The 1990 census collected data on a wide variety of demographic characteristics, including employment. The census recognized three dimensions of kind of work or job activity: industrial class, the overall purpose of the employing organization; occupational class, the kind of work done in the individual job; and class of worker, the relationship between the organization's ownership and the employed person. However, there is a fourth dimension of job activity, land use, which is not recognized by the decennial census. Nonresidential land use classes describe the nature of economic activities and facilities occurring as individual establishments. Major land use classes include office, commercial, institutional, industrial, as well as others. The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) has obtained a special cross-tabulation of 1990 census data on workers by zone of work. A method has been developed at SEMCOG that uses industrial class and occupational class in conjunction to assign land use class to workers. This method allows the linking of census demographic characteristics to the land use class of the workplace, and thereby to noncensus data on land use characteristics; to the spatial distribution of nonresidential land uses that these data describe; and to the locational determinants that underlie these patterns. SEMCOG has used the method to assign land use classes to 1990 census employment data. Testing and improvement of the method are continuing. The indispensability of decennial census data on employment for analytical and planning purposes is emphasized, and a proposal is made to incorporate the land use assignment method into the procedures for Census 2000.
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Monograph Accession #: 00737947
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Limoges, EPagination: p. 47-57
Publication Date: 1997
Conference:
Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning: Case Studies and Strategies for 2000
Location:
Irvine, California ISBN: 0309059704
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jun 17 1997 12:00AM
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