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A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country
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A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country
Posted on May 11, 2012
U.S. Census Bureau
Directors Blog
http://directorsblog.blogs.census.gov/2012/05/11/
a-future-without-key-social-and-economic-statistics-for-the-country/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/crvauz6
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Our country faces important Federal funding challenges linked to the
current recession and its aftermath. On the Census Bureaus part, we have
been striving to cut administrative costs, reengineer our survey
processes, and find innovative ways to squeeze every cent of taxpayer
money we get. This is an important duty, I believe, we have as public
servants, and I am proud of the hard work of my Census Bureau colleagues
on this score. It is also my duty to inform the country of the impact of
budgets on the scope and quality of the nonpartisan statistical
information the Census Bureau provides.
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This blog post provides information about the implications of the recent
budget passed by the House of Representatives.
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The Appropriations Bill eliminates the Economic Census, which measures the
health of our economy. It terminates the American Community Survey, which
produces the social and demographic information that monitors the impact
of economic trends on communities throughout the country. It halts crucial
development of ways to save money on the next decennial census. In the
last three years the Census Bureau has reacted to budget and technological
challenges by mounting aggressive operational efficiency programs to make
these key statistical cornerstones of the country more cost efficient.
Eliminating them halts all the progress to build 21st century statistical
tools through those innovations. This bill thus devastates the nations
statistical information about the status of the economy and the larger
society.
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The Economic Census
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The 2012 Economic Census provides comprehensive information on the health
of over 25 million businesses and 1,100 industries. It provides detailed
industry and geographic source data for generating quarterly GDP
estimates. The economic census is also the benchmark for measures of
productivity, producer prices, and many of the nations principal economic
indicators. At this moment, we are poised to request the key data from
individual firms. We have already printed 7.5 million forms, and are
preparing the October mailing and internet data collection infrastructure.
Cancelling the 2012 Economic Census now wastes $226 million already
expended on preparatory activities
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The American Community Survey
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The ACS is our countrys only source of small area estimates on social and
demographic characteristics. Manufacturers and service sector firms use
ACS to identify the income, education, and occupational skills of local
labor markets they serve. Retail businesses use ACS to understand the
characteristics of the neighborhoods in which they locate their stores.
Homebuilders and realtors understand the housing characteristics and the
markets in their communities. Local communities use ACS to choose
locations for new schools, hospitals, and fire stations. There is no
substitute from the private sector for ACS small area estimates. Even if
the funding problems were solved in the proposed budget, the House bill
also bans enforcement of the mandatory nature of participation in the ACS;
this alone would require at least $64 million more in funding to achieve
the same precision of ACS estimates.
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Building a More Efficient Population Census
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In the last three years the Census Bureau has launched a transformation in
survey and census designs. Both the ongoing economic and demographic
surveys and the economic and demographic censuses will use the same
technological infrastructure, to produce a leaner, more efficient 21st
Century Census Bureau. The reduction in the 2020 Census request will not
permit the Census Bureau to undertake the research and testing needed to
build shared use of technical infrastructure and more efficient ways of
conducting the next decennial census. It eliminates the anonymized public
use sample file (PUMS), robbing the country of research discoveries from
the 2010 Census by the private sector. The country will lose the chance to
mount a 2020 Census at a lower cost per household than that of the 2010
Census.
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Modern societies need current, detailed social and economic statistics;
the US is losing them.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
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