Benefits, Burdens, and Prospects of the American Community Survey: Summary of a Workshop (2013)

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–A– Workshop Agenda and Participant List AGENDA Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey June 14–15, 2012 • Washington, DC Room 100, Keck Center of the National Academies DAY 1: Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:00pm Call to Order Linda Gage, Co-Chair; California Department of Finance Ken Hodges, Co-Chair; Nielsen, Ithaca, NY Brief Introduction of Workshop and Participants 1:15pm A. How Will the American Community Survey (ACS) Help Us Plan Health Care and Transportation in the Future? Moderator/Organizer: Joan Naymark, Independent Consul- tant, Minneapolis, MN 1:15 Kathleen Thiede Call, School of Public Health and State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota 1:30 James Stark, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 1:45 Richard Thomas, Center for Population Studies, University of Mississippi and Health and Performance Resources, Memphis, TN 173 

174 BENEFITS, BURDENS, AND PROSPECTS OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 2:00 Beth Jarosz, San Diego Association of Governments 2:15 Vincent Sanders, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Houston, TX 2:30pm Break 2:45pm B. How Will the ACS Help Us Respond to Disasters and Plan Social Services in the Future? Moderator/Organizer: Richard Rathge, North Dakota State University 2:45 Linda Giannarelli, Urban Institute, Washington, DC 3:00 Amy Terpstra, Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance, Chicago 3:15 Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center 3:30 Russ Paulsen, American Red Cross National Headquarters, Washington, DC 3:45pm C. ACS and the Media: Communicating Estimates (and Uncer- tainty) to the Public Moderator/Organizer: Ken Hodges, Nielsen, Ithaca, NY 3:45 Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY 4:05 Ronald Campbell, The Orange County Register 4:25 Ford Fessenden, The New York Times 4:45pm Floor Discussion for Day 1 Sessions 5:00pm Adjourn Day 1 DAY 2: Friday, June 15, 2012 8:45am Call to Order and Reintroduction to the Workshop 9:00am D. The Burdens of the ACS: A Panel Discussion of Respondent Burden, Privacy/Confidentiality Concerns, and User Burden (“Opening Statements” of up to 10 minutes, plus discussion) Moderator/Organizer: Linda Jacobsen, Population Reference Bureau Ronald Fecso, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Wash- ington, DC Warren Brown, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Cornell University Barry Steinhardt, Friends of Privacy USA, Washington, DC 

APPENDIX A 175 Kenneth Darga, Michigan Department of Technology, Manage- ment, and Budget, and Michigan State Demographer Stephen Tordella, Decision Demographics, Arlington, VA 10:15am Break 10:30am E. State/Local/Tribal and Urban/Rural Uses of American Com- munity Survey (ACS) Data Moderator/Organizer: Richard Rathge, North Dakota State University 10:30 Susan Brower, Minnesota State Data Center, Department of Administration, St. Paul 10:45 Kathleen Miller, Rural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia 11:00 Steven Romalewski, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, City University of New York 11:15 Lester Tsosie, Division of Economic Development, The Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ 11:30 Discussion Leader: Jacqueline Byers, National Association of Counties 11:45am Working Lunch to continue discussion of presentations; third floor cafeteria 1:00pm F. Business, Economic Development, and Data Aggregator Uses of ACS Data Moderator/Organizer: Patrick Jankowski, Greater Houston Partnership 1:00 Andrew Conrad, Business and Community Services and the Institute for Decision Making, University of Northern Iowa 1:15 Katie Genadek, IPUMS Project, University of Minnesota 1:30 Matthew Christenson, Acxiom Corporation, Little Rock, AR 1:45 Gad Levanon, The Conference Board, New York, NY 2:00 Cheryl Hayes, AIR Worldwide, Boston, MA 2:15 Discussion Leader: David Crowe, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, DC 2:30pm Break 

176 BENEFITS, BURDENS, AND PROSPECTS OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 3:00pm G. Legal/Political and Social Equity Uses of ACS Data Moderator/Organizer: Linda Gage, California Department of Finance 3:00 Kimball Brace, Election Data Services, Manassas, VA1 3:15 Joe Salvo and Peter Lobo, New York City Department of City Planning 3:30 Jeanne Gobalet, Lapkoff and Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc., Saratoga, CA 3:45 Andrew Beveridge, Social Explorer, Inc., Bronxville, NY, and Queens College and Graduate Center, Flushing, NY 4:00 Discussion Leader: Terri Ann Lowenthal, Funders Census Initiative and The Census Project 4:15pm H. Wrapping Up: The Future of ACS Data, and Floor Discussion of Workshop Themes Moderators: Linda Gage, California Department of Finance and Ken Hodges, Nielsen, Ithaca, NY Steve Murdock, Department of Sociology and Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, Rice University 5:00pm Planned Adjournment 1 Mr. Brace was unable to attend the workshop; accordingly, additional time was allotted to the discussion portion of the session. 

APPENDIX A 177 CONTRIBUTORS TO ACCOMPANYING VOLUME OF CASE STUDIES AND USER PROFILES PATRICIA C. BECKER, APB Associates, Inc. CHRIS BENNER, Geography Graduate Group and Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis ANDREW G. BIGGS, American Enterprise Institute THOMAS BRYAN, Bryan Geodemographics RONALD CAMPBELL, The Orange County Register ROSA CASTRO, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California WON KIM COOK, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum A. RUPA DATTA, NORC at the University of Chicago GENEVIEVE DUPUIS, Population Reference Bureau NED ENGLISH, NORC at the University of Chicago OWEN FURUSETH, University of North Carolina at Charlotte NANCY GEMIGNANI, California State Census Data Center, Demographic Research Unit ROBERT GEORGE, Chapin Hall Center for Children MARK GOLDSTEIN, Maryland Department of Planning RANDY GUSTAFSON, Tennessee State Data Center JEFF HARDCASTLE, Nevada State Demographer LESLEY HIRSCH, New York City Labor Market Information Service GEORGE C. HOUGH, JR., Rice University PATRICK JANKOWSKI, Greater Houston Partnership BARBARA JOHN, University of North Carolina at Charlotte DANIEL KASPRZYK, NORC at the University of Chicago THOMAS LUDDEN, University of North Carolina at Charlotte MARK MATHER, Population Reference Bureau MEG MERRICK, Portland State University PETER A. MORRISON, RAND (retired) KORY NORTHROP, Graduate Student in Environmental Studies, University of Oregon BECKY PETTIT, University of Washington ROSELLA PICADO, Parsons Brinckerhoff PHILLIP REESE, The Sacramento Bee PAUL REIM, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization IDANIA R. RODRÍGUEZ AYUSO, Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics GUY ROUSSEAU, Atlanta Regional Commission DAVID A. SWANSON, University of California, Riverside BRYAN SYKES, DePaul University JANE TRAYNHAM, Maryland State Data Center LESTER TSOSIE, The Navajo Nation QINGFANG WANG, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

178 BENEFITS, BURDENS, AND PROSPECTS OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY KIRK WOLTER, NORC at the University of Chicago DAVID W. WONG, George Mason University TING YAN, NORC at the University of Chicago LAWRENCE YUN, National Association of Realtors ••• We note with sadness the untimely passing of Randy Gustafson, director of the Ten- nessee State Data Center, on June 9, 2012—shortly after submitting his entry to our case study set and shortly before the workshop itself. He was an early and enthusias- tic supporter of this workshop—among the first to reply to the steering committee’s canvass for interested ACS users and the first to agree to contribute a study.