Earlier this year, Pima Association of Governments completed the local Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) on behalf of member agencies. This effort involved calculating population estimates for existing census tracts and block groups, reviewing the geography with respect to existing neighborhood boundaries, and splitting or merging the areas to meet specific criteria for Census 2010 geographic areas.
PAG also worked with Pima County to define the official Census Designated Places. From 2011 to 2021, the Census Bureau will use these geographies to report data from Census Bureau programs including the results of the 2010 Census and The American Community Survey.
PAG also served as a coordinator between member agencies and the Census Bureau on the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program. This program is a decennial census geographic partnership program that allows local, state, and tribal governments to contribute local knowledge to the Bureau to develop a more accurate and complete Master Address File of each community in order to obtain an accurate and complete census count.
Complete Count Committee
PAG established a Census 2010 Complete Count Committee, which will hold its first official meeting on Oct. 21, 2009. The CCC has established four subcommittees: Education, Community-Based Organizations, Business and Media.
In fall 2009, the CCC and its subcommittess will begin to build awareness of Census 2010 with hard-to-count populations and will prepare a public outreach strategy with a media campaign that will be conducted in spring 2010. |