Seeing The Numbers: Curious Maps
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Our series on the new Census Atlas of the United States wraps up this week. Marc Perry, Chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the U.S. Census, answers some lingering questions and takes a look at some of the quirkier maps in the atlas.
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Loved the map series. Hope you do more like it in the future.
Regarding the plumbing maps, the change from 1070 most likely also reflects increasing suburburnization and urburburnization of rural areas in these states.
And even looking closer, it is hard to tell because the colors are so close but it appears New York is in the .6 to 1.8% range of not having plumbing, not the 2.0 to 6.3% range. So it is probably closer to 1 in 100 without plumbing but you stated 1 in 20.
Not correct Andrea, you said 1 in 20 households don't have plumbing but the RANGE is 2.0 to 6.3%. So it could be one in 50. Please don't take the upper range as fact, nor take the lower range as fact. Take the range as fact.
Re: Andrea's question about whether people who have oil heat are disproportionately affected by higher costs: YES. This past winter was a DISASTER in New England. My sister lives in Maine and her heating bills tripled.
If a house only has cell phone an no landline (like mine), how is it classified?
Marc, Marc!
Remember, as employees of the federal government, most everything the Census Bureau does is "work for hire" ... you all work for the Congress of the United States, and (by default) are employees of the "citizens of the United States."
I snickered today when I heard the query, "Why was the new Atlas made available as a downloadable pdf?" ...
The best answer would be, "This work belongs to every citizen. We just have to recover our costs in delivering you a copy!"
Take care all associated with the Brian Lehrer show!
Andy
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