{"id":283504,"date":"2010-02-05T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:38:00","slug":"new-mapping-website-highlights-challenges-to-accurate-2010-census-in-hard-to-count-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283504","title":{"rendered":"NEW MAPPING WEBSITE HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES TO ACCURATE 2010 CENSUS IN HARD-TO-COUNT AREAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interactive Maps Help Guide Outreach Strategies in Support of Full Count; <\/strong>Academia, Nonprofits, Business & Philanthropy Join Forces on Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

Community groups and local governments working to boost census response in historically hard-to-count neighborhoods will be able to target their efforts with a new web-based, interactive mapping site unveiled today by the City University of New York (CUNY) Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center.\u00a0 The Census 2010 Hard-To-Count Interactive Map <\/strong>(www.CensusHardToCountMaps.org<\/a>) not only pinpoints census tracts that the U.S. Census Bureau considers difficult to enumerate, it also displays the detailed demographic and housing characteristics that the Census Bureau believes will create challenges to achieving an accurate count in certain communities, allowing census advocates to tailor their activities and messages to address specific barriers, such as language difficulties or low educational attainment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis web site will help groups promoting 2010 census participation across the nation get the biggest bang for their buck by focusing precisely on the communities that will be hardest to count,\u201d said Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service.\u00a0 \u201cThe tool will also help these advocates communicate effectively with people in hard-to-count areas because the maps reveal why each location will likely face enumeration challenges.\u201d\u00a0 Mr. Romalewski pointed to language barriers, large numbers of renters, high poverty rates, and a prevalence of non-traditional households as some of the characteristics \u2014 alone or in combination \u2014 that the Census Bureau\u2019s research indicates will contribute to a difficult environment for the census.\u00a0 \u201cThe website provides visual evidence of those challenges with powerful maps and interactive data,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s development represents an effective partnership between academia, business, nonprofits, and the philanthropic community.\u00a0 The mapping site was made possible by a grant from the Long Island-based Hagedorn Foundation and is supported by the Funders Census Initiative (FCI), a unique and unprecedented ad hoc coalition of foundations and philanthropic affinity groups interested in a fair and accurate census.\u00a0 \u201cThe decennial U.S. Census provides data that are critical to the welfare and equity of American society, and therefore to the philanthropic community,\u201d said Hagedorn Foundation Executive Director Darren Sandow. \u201cWithout special efforts to reach the most vulnerable, hardest to count residents, millions of our neighbors will lose essential human services as well as political representation.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we\u2019re supporting this extraordinarily sophisticated resource.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leadership Conference Education Fund (www.civilrights.org<\/a>), which is leading a national campaign in support of the 2010 census, is producing a video tutorial to help guide users through the site\u2019s features.\u00a0 The Leadership Conference is among dozens of nonprofits that have tested a beta version of the mapping tool and offered feedback to the development team.\u00a0 \u201cThe census is a critical tool for protecting the civil rights of every person living in the United States, from the drawing of fair voting districts to the enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education, employment and housing, which is why organizations like ours and our national and community-based partners have a real stake in ensuring no one is left out of the census,\u201d said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference Education Fund. \u201cThe CUNY interactive maps will be invaluable tools as we reach out to those communities, disproportionately minority and low-income, most at risk of being missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The site incorporates Google Maps\u00a9; Google provided technical advice and access to server resources, in anticipation of heavy use among state and local governments and grassroots organizations working to boost census participation this year.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mapping tool is based on the Census Bureau\u2019s Tract Level Planning Database (http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/partners\/research\/<\/a>), which identified twelve population and housing characteristics associated with low mail response in the 2000 census.\u00a0 In addition to showing these characteristics within hard-to-count census tracts, the database shows tracts with low 2000 census mail return rates and high foreclosure risk.\u00a0 Site users can view hard-to-count census tracts within states, counties, metro areas, cities, and Tribal lands, as well as congressional districts and ZIP Codes.\u00a0 Location-specific links to the Census Bureau\u2019s web site allows users to access demographic and economic profiles of each area, including racial and ethnic composition, from either the 2000 census or American Community Survey (which replaced the census long form starting in 2005).<\/p>\n

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