Geography 2.3.1

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Geography 2.3.1
The times, they are a changin
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Todays Geography Lesson

• What well cover
• The answers to the question everyone is asking
  how do these geography tables work?
• New areas and area types
• What happens to time series?
• WILD CARD 1 Census EEO geography
• WILD CARD 2 New England geography

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GEOG and SUBGEOG

• Why are these table SO important?
• What data are in the tables?
• How they should be populated.

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Next, a trip back through time

• The year is 1949
• Bruce Springsteen, John Belushi, Aiswarya (Queen
  of Nepal) and Linda Tripp were born
• Richard Strauss and Leadbelly passed away
• Rasputin had been dead for 33 years
• EDSAC, first stored-program computer runs at
  Cambridge
• Boxer Joe Louis retired
• Standard Metropolitan Areas (SMA) were first
  defined

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Next, a trip back through time

• The year is 1949
• Bruce Springsteen, John Belushi, Aiswarya (Queen
  of Nepal) and Linda Tripp were born
• Richard Strauss and Leadbelly passed away
• EDSAC, first stored-program computer runs at
  Cambridge
• Boxer Joe Louis retired
• Standard Metropolitan Areas (SMA) were first
  defined

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Something Old, Something New

• Modern History
• Standard Metropolitan Area (SMA, 1949)
• Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA,
  1959)
• Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA, 1983)
• Metropolitan Area (MA MSA, CMSA, PMSA, 1990)
• Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA Metropolitan,
  Micropolitan, 2000)

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Recent Update

• OMB Bulletin 03-04, June 6, 2003 (see
  www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/b03-04.html)
• Revised Metropolitan area definitions
• 49 new Metropolitan Statistical Areas
• Created Micropolitan Statistical Areas Combined
  Statistical Areas New England City and Town
  Areas

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ALMIS Database Changes

• New AREATYPE values
• 21 Metropolitan Statistical Area (2003 revision)
• 22 Micropolitan Statistical Area (2003 revision)
• 23 Metropolitan Divisions (2003 revision)
• 24 Combined Statistical Areas
• New prototype content
• ftp//ftp.xwalkcenter.org/almis/ver23 contain
  GEOG and SUBGEOG files in the lookup directories
  for FOX26 and TXT versions

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More Recent Update

• OMB Bulletin 04-03, February 18, 2004 (see
  httpwww.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/fy04/b04-03.
  html)
• 13 new Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• 1 deleted Metropolitan Statistical Area
• 9 new Combined Statistical Areas
• 3 new components to existing Combined Statistical
  Areas
• 1 deleted component from existing Combined
  Statistical Area
• 2 deleted Combined Statistical Areas
• 1 new New England City and Town Area
• One new Combined New England City and Town Area
• 1 change to principal city and title of
  Metropolitan New England City and Town Area
• 8 new principal cities for Metropolitan or
  Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• 6 deleted principal cities for Metropolitan or
  Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• 2 changes in the order of principal cities
• 5 other title changes

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Most Recent Update

• OMB Bulletin 05-02, February 22, 2005 (see
  http//www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/fy05/b05-0
  2.html)
• 2 new Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• 2 new components to existing Combined Statistical
  Areas
• 3 new principal cities in Metropolitan and
  Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Metropolitan
  Divisions
• 1 deleted principal city for a Metropolitan
  Statistical Area
• 4 changes in the order of principal cities

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What the?

• Geographic definitions have become more fluid
• OMB Definitions take effect immediately.
• Check for OMB updates at http//www.whitehouse.go
  v/omb/bulletins/index.html
• Subscribe to the NCSC RSS feed (see
  http//www.xwalkcenter.org/xw_rss.html)

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Why worry?

• Questions raised by OMB Bulletin 04-03
• What happened to the Bristol VA Metropolitan
  Statistical Area?
• Where did the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC
  Combined Statistical area come from?

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Prior MSA Revisions

• June 1999
• June 1993
• June 1990
• June 1983
• June 1981
• April 1973
• February 1971
• October 1963
• November 1960
• October 1950

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How about data?

• BLS series
• LAUS 2000 definitions with January 2005
• CES 2000 definitions with January 2005
• OES Tentative Spring 2006
• Other selected series
• BEA Back to 1969 on 2004 definitions (2002-2003
  on 2005 definitions)
• Census 2000 Census data 1999 definitions

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Wild Card 1 Census EEO Geography

• Different than any other geography
• No areas with less than 50,000 population
• Counties of 50,000 or more might not be presented
  separately if they are combined with one or
  more smaller counties
• Individual state EEO geography files can be found
  in CENLAB00.ZIP file found in state directories
  at ftp//ftp.xwalkcenter.org/almis/states

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Wild Card 2 New England Geography

• New England is all states north and east of New
  York
• Counties are defined, but generally not used
• Individual states may have developed their own
  systems may be best source
• NCSC prototype New England Geography
• Based on content taken from http//www.census.gov/
  population/www/estimates/metrodef.html
• Used AREATYPE 05 Minor Civil Division
• Files available on NCSC FTP server. See
  ftp//ftp.xwalkcenter.org/almis/nonstd/readme.txt

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Whats next

• Still planning
• Tentative resource list
• GEOG and SUBGEOG sets for each OMB Bulletin
• Archive of OMB change documents
• RSS and e-mail notification of changes