2001 Annual Report

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2001 Annual Report

• submitted to the
• State Data Center/BIDC network
• by
• Renee Jefferson-Copeland
• Program Administrator, State and Governmental
  Programs,
• Customer Liaison Office, Census Bureau
• October 2001

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VISION

• To create an SDC/BIDC program that is a model of
  Federal-State cooperation by being well managed,
  providing efficient and timely access to data and
  meeting the needs of the government partners and
  the ultimate customer, data users.

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Mission

• To effectively provide access to Census Bureau
  data and data products through a wide network of
  SDCs, including lead, coordinating and affiliate
  organizations.

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The SDC Network

• Established in 1978
• Business Industry Program Component added in
  1988
• 56 lead organizations, 148 coordinating
  organizations, and 1,174 affiliate organizations
  401 of which are BIDCs
• Elected steering committee

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Core Competencies est. 1998

• Program administration (Lead Only)
• Data dissemination
• Data analysis, technical assistance, and
  consultation
• Customized programming/product development
• Education and promotion of censuses

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Core Competencies established - 1998

• Training
• Assistance with census operations
• Web presence
• Participation in regional or national meetings

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Program Administration

• 50 out of the 56 SDCs reported
• 960 Full Time Equivalent employees
• states expended 9.7 million
• 65 affiliate meetings
• 20 of the 56 SDCs conducted formal evaluations

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Data DisseminationThe network.

• handled 888,000 requests
• responded to 780,000 of above requests at no cost
  to the data user
• maintained 500 Census Bureau libraries that are
  accessible to the public

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Data Analysis, Technical Assistance
ConsultationThe network.

• responded to 416,000 requests that required
  in-depth analysis

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Customized Programming Product DevelopmentThe
network.

• prepared 24,000 customized products, the majority
  of which were based on Census Bureau data

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Education and Promotion of Census Programs -
Decennial Census

• 4,000 speeches or presentations
• 740 general information workshops
• 2,400 Census 2000 promotional activities
• 4,700 newsletter articles
• 300 data user training workshops
• trained about 15,000 data users

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Education and Promotion of Census Programs -
Economic Census

• 1,400 speeches or presentations
• 200 general information workshops
• 100 97 Economic Census data promotional
  activities
• 300 newsletter articles
• 200 data user training workshops
• trained about 4,500 data users

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Education and Promotion of Census Programs -
Other Census Programs

• 950 speeches or presentations
• 90 general information workshops
• 90 promotional activities
• 200 newsletter articles
• 250 data user training workshops
• trained about 5,000 data users

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Assistance with Census Bureau Operations

• 1,400 training workshops
• 3,400 media activities
• 30 SDCs assisted in locating meeting and training
  space

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Web Presence Conference attendance

• 500 SDC websites 250 with links to
  www.census.gov
• approximately 71.9 million hits on the SDC
  websites
• about 8.6 million user sessions
• 60 SDC representatives at national regional
  conferences

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SDC TECHNOLOGY

• 30 SDCs are able to press CD-ROMs
• 30 SDCs have DVD readers
• 32 SDCs have GIS capabilities
• 30 SDCs can print and copy large scale maps
• 30 SDCs have video conferencing capabilities

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SDCs assist in Census Bureau Programs and
Operations for...

• Decennial Census Advisory Committee
• Geography Division
• Economic Directorate
• Population Division
• Demographic Surveys Division
• The American Community Survey
• The American FactFinder

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SDCs assist in Census Bureau Programs and
Operations for...

• Manufacturing Construction Division
• Regional Offices
• Communications Directorate
• Redistricting Data Office

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SDC/Customer Liaison OfficeCoordination
Cooperation

• CLO convenes
• monthly steering committee telephone conferences
• 2 SDC steering committee meetings per year
• 2 regional conferences per year
• Continuous telephone and email contact

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SDC/Customer Liaison OfficeCoordination
Cooperation

• Annual conference
• SDC maintain a network clearinghouse website
• CLO assisted in 16 local SDC affiliate meetings
  for a combined audience of over 1,600 SDC staff,
  local officials, media and data users

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SDC/Customer Liaison OfficeCoordination
Cooperation

• listserves
• Embargo directory
• Secure Servers
• FTP Site

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SDC/Customer Liaison Office Coordination
Cooperation

• FTP Site
• Census Bureau provided about 67,000 data products
  ( 42 CD-ROMs and 53 publications) at no cost -
  retail value 2.0 million
• Early Access to Census Bureau data (excludes
  Title 13 data)

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Plans for 2002

• Mutual support for Census Bureau and SDC
  products, programs and activities
• Prepare Memorandum of Understanding for January
  2003 - December 2004
• Data Dissemination to SDCs
• Training
• Annual Reports for program year 2001-2002

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• Thank
• you ...