2010 Census and Local Partnerships New Jersey State Data Center Annual Network Meeting June 2, 2009 New Brunswick, NJ Philip Lutz Assistant Regional Census.

2010 Census and Local Partnerships

New Jersey State Data Center

Annual Network Meeting

June 2, 2009

New Brunswick, NJ

Philip Lutz

Assistant Regional Census Manager

Philadelphia Region, U.S. Census Bureau

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Partnership Mission

• Reduce the Differential Undercount

• Increase the Mail Response Rate

• Use Local Knowledge and Resources in the Census Process

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Examples of Partnerships

• Complete Count Committees• Partnership Agreements• Questionnaire Assistance Centers / Be

Counted Sites• Census In Schools• Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)• Statistical Areas• Boundary and Annexations

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NJ Complete Count Committees and Partnership Agreements

• Hard to Count Areas and Populations are Targeted

• Sixty Four Organizations in Complete Count Committees

• Seven Hundred Seventy Six Partner Organizations Agreements

• Eligible for Partner Support Program

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Somerset

Hudson

Morris

Hunterdon

Mercer

Middlesex

Essex

Camden

Cumberland

Gloucester

Bergen

Burlington

Monmouth

Union

Warren

Sussex

Somerset

Salem

Passaic

Ocean

Cape May

Atlantic

Partner Organizations

Complete Count Committee

County

2000 Pop

64,285 - 102,437

121,989 - 146,438

252,552 - 350,761

423,394 - 522,541

608,975 - 615,301

750,162 - 884,118

Partner Organizations and Complete Count Committees

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New Jersey Partnership Staff

• More than 25 Partnership Specialists and Team Leaders

• More than 50 Partnership Assistants

• Language and Cultural Experience

• Stimulus Hiring by August 2009

Questionnaire Assistance Centers / Be Counted Sites

• Neighborhood / Local sites

• In Language Materials

• Identify Sites – late 2009 to early 2010 through Partnership Specialists

• Operation from mid March to mid April

• QACs – paid staff, approximately 15 hours per week

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Census in the Schools

• Create Awareness of the Census

• Children Become Census Advocates in the Home

• 2010 Census Lessons, Materials, Event Ideas

• English and Spanish Materials

• Encourage Census Week 9

Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)

• Established by Public Law 103-430

• LUCA Participants Receive Feedback (Fall /Winter)

• Option 1 and 2 Participants Can Appeal

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LUCA in New Jersey

• Option 1 – The State, 4 Counties, 121 Local Governments

• Option 2 – 1 County, 6 Local Governments

• Option 3 – 2 Counties, 12 Local Governments

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Participant Statistical Areas Program

• Census Tracts, Block Groups, and Census Designated Places

• 17 County Agencies and 1 Regional Planning Agency in NJ

• Boundary Verification by Participants in 3rd and 4th Quarter 2009

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Tribal Statistical Areas Program

• Three Tribes in NJ. All are delineating their SDTSAs through NJ Commission of Indian Affairs.

• Ramapough Mountain Tribe (Passaic & Bergen)• Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape (Cumberland)• Powhatan Renape (Burlington)• Sand Hill (Monmouth) is currently not state

recognized but are partnering with Census

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2010 Census Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)

• January 1, 2010 Boundary

• All Governments Eligible

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? QUESTIONS ?

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