Census Bureau Agency Briefing MAPPS Federal Programs Conference March 14, 2017

Geographic Programs Supporting the 2020 Census and Other Census Bureau Programs Address Programs Address Canvassing In-Office Address Canvassing In-Field Address Canvassing Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program New Construction Project Legal Boundary Programs Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) Boundary Validation Program (BVP) Administrative and Statistical Boundary Programs School District Review Program (SDRP) Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) Redistricting Block Boundary Suggestion Project (BBSP) Redistricting Voting District Project (VTD) 2 2

Geographic Support System Program Continual Research and Updating An integrated program of improved address coverage, continual spatial and feature updates, and enhanced quality assessment and measurement The GSS Program supports and maintains the geographic and cartographic infrastructure necessary for the Census Bureau’s data collection, processing, tabulation, and dissemination programs for the United States and Puerto Rico Continual updates throughout the decade to support current surveys and the 2020 Census US Postal Service Tribal, State, Local Commercial

Geographic Support System Program Partner File Update Goals Initial Geographic Support System Program goal is to acquire address and spatial files for every census tract in the United States and Puerto Rico By Census Tract GSS Goal Actual Acquired Cumulative Total Remainder 2013 15,000 15,972 58,030 2014 11,940* 27,912 46,090 2015 15,007 42,919 31,083 2016 19,278 62,197 11,805 2017 74,002 *Budget constraints resulted in the need to scale back this operation in FY 2014

Geographic Support System Participation Status By Data Provider 5

Geographic Support System Acquisition Status By Data Provider

In-Office Address Canvassing Interactive Review Operational Design and Development: Fiscal Year 2015 Project Goal: 11,155,486 - All US Blocks  Cumulative IR Results - as of March 10, 2017 Blocks completed: 9,533,724 (85.5%) Passive: 6,854,847 (71.9%) Active: 1,588,255 (16.7%) Hold: 1,090,622 (11.4%) Time per Review: 1.02 minutes FY17 Goal: Complete remaining balance of all US Blocks

In-Office Address Canvassing Block Assessment, Research and Classification Application (BARCA) This graphic contains no Title 13 data

In-Office Address Canvassing Active Block Resolution Operational Design and Development: Fiscal Year 2016 Started Execution: April 2016 Cumulative ABR Results - as of March 9, 2017 ABR Universe: 1,495,033 blocks ABR Blocks Worked 84,771 blocks Completed Review 78,643 blocks (92.8% complete) Resolved in Office 58,727 blocks (69.3% complete) Request In-Field Canvassing 14,344 blocks (16.9% complete) On Hold 6,128 blocks (7.2%) Time per review (including QC): 67 minutes

2020 Census Support Local Update of Census Addresses Operation (LUCA) January 2017 Completed advance notice mailing Opened LUCA Geographic Programs Support Desk Posted address block count lists on the LUCA website February 2017 LUCA Promotional Workshops begin Scheduled promotional workshops/webinars February 14 - Data Dissemination Specialists February 23 - State Data Centers and Census Information Centers Outreach Opportunities February 25 - National Association of Counties Legislative Conference March 2017 March 6 - National Association of Towns and Townships Board of Directors Meeting March 12 - National League of Cities Congressional City Conference July 2017 Invitation letter and registration forms mailed August 2017 - Training workshops begin Self-training aids and webinars will be available online at the LUCA website February 2018 Begin mailing participation materials to all registered participants March-September 2018 Census Bureau processes LUCA submissions August-September 2019 Feedback materials offered to participants with the validation results

Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) Annual, voluntary survey to collect legal status and boundary updates for tribal, state, and local governments. Boundary updates submitted as part of the BAS must be legally in effect on or before January 1st of each BAS year. Activity Date(s) Annual Response information emailed December 2016 Non-response follow up Week of February 20, 2017 Deadline for BAS submission to be included in Population Estimates Program and American Community Survey March 1, 2017 State Data Center non-response follow up March/April 2017 Deadline for BAS submission to be reflected in 2018 BAS materials May 31, 2017

2020 Census Support Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) Opportunity for designated representatives to review and update statistical geographic areas for 2020 Census data tabulation Coordinating agencies (generally, county planning departments or regional planning organizations) review, identify, propose changes and delineate new census tracts, block groups, census designated places (CDPs), and census county divisions (CCDs) Statistical geographic areas updated in PSAP are used to tabulate and disseminate American Community Survey and other data throughout the decade following the decennial census Program begins in 2018

Contact Information Thank you! Michael Ratcliffe michael.r.ratcliffe@census.gov