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Use of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) by State Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (2012) / Chapter Skim
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... 55 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER RESEARCH ect, the transportation community has come to a better understanding of Census issues, and the Census Bureau has developed a better understanding of transportation planning data uses. Training and outreach appear to be needed in the incorporation of sampling error concepts into analyses.
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... 56 Conduct research on the best ways to improve knowledge sharing among the transportation planning community regarding the PUMS data series. Transportation planning agencies, and especially agencies with fewer technical staff, would benefit from access to other planners' PUMS-based studies, as well as their data manipulation software procedures, data processing code, and tools.
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