Census Tracts (aka Tidbits)
Census director Robert Groves decided after discussions with Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., and citizen groups that states will receive information on their prison populations before they finish redistricting work. It will be up to the states how they use that data which will not include the hometowns of the inmates. In the past that data breakdown was provided, but after redistricting meaning some rural areas with prisons had what some would consider inflated populations while the areas from which prisoners came, often urban areas, were undercounted. The data may not even be used as it will be delivered two months after the initial census data and state and local authorities may not have time to include it in their redistricting plans.
- AP
Heavy investments in Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping in Terrebonne, Lafourche and St. Mary have made the census bureau’s job a little easier. Local GIS offices have helped paint a clear picture of where everything in the three parishes is - from buildings to roadways - cutting down on some of the footwork census takers are required to do.
- Tri Parish Times (LA)
James Fee notes CensusHardtoCountMaps.org an app trying to pinpoint where the census misses people. It’s from “the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research • Project funded by the Hagedorn Foundation • Created with the Funders Census Initiative.”
Did you see the very confusing SuperBowl ad about the Census? It was about a “shoot” but they’d let everyone know where it was being held. But then they didn’t really explain it’d be held at your house. Then they asked, but didn’t answer (or maybe they did in a later part I didn’t see) when and where the shoot was. Cost: $2.5 million
Even Entertainment Weekly had it at the bottom of its list.
- Paid Google Ad for Census SuperBowl Commercial
