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Assumptions And Limitations Of The Census Bureau Methodology Ranking Racial And Ethnic Residential Segregation In Cities And Metro Areas, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This paper responds to a request from the U.S. Census Bureau to serve on a five-member peer review panel to examine an historic and first-time study by the Census Bureau that ranked major metropolitan areas by their level of racial and ethnic housing segregation and offered segregation rankings of 1,092 cities and 331 metropolitan areas based on a series of indexes discussed in the sociological literature. The paper identifies assumptions and limitations of the indexes and the five-index rankings used by the Census Bureau in its report on “Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000” (CENSR-3) and …
How To Use Eti Drill Downs To Map Employment Integration And To Assess Workforce Diversity At Government Jobsites, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
How To Use Eti Drill Downs To Map Employment Integration And To Assess Workforce Diversity At Government Jobsites, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
While many studies have focused on disparities in employment and earnings of African Americans and Hispanics compared to white workers in the Milwaukee labor force, these reports have not drilled down to a neighborhood or jobsite level where changes can be effected in recruitment, hiring and promotion decisions. This report uses place-of-work data from the 2000 U.S. Census, released in 2004 and 2005 and designed for transportation planners, to assess and compare employment patterns by race/ethnicity at the census tract and block group and by industry, occupation, and type of employer. Racial integration and diversity standards are applied, based on …
How To Use Eti Place-Of-Work And Purchasing Power Drill Downs: Drill Downs For The Burleigh Main Street Project, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
How To Use Eti Place-Of-Work And Purchasing Power Drill Downs: Drill Downs For The Burleigh Main Street Project, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
ETI Publications
Commercial districts across the United States are attempting to expand retail activity and employment in targeted city neighborhoods. This paper presents a prototype drilldown for measuring retail strengths of under-served central city areas. Two sets of drill downs were developed using state-of-the-art methodologies to meet the needs of business owners, community agencies, and academics in assessing the existing and potential retail market of individual neighborhoods. ETI Purchasing Power Profiles detail the annual expenditures of residents in each neighborhood for 16 major categories of consumer expenditures, utilizing a unique methodology developed by the Employment and Training Institute. The profiles were initially …
Workforce And Transportation Drill Downs Of Hud Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, And Community Development Block Grant Neighborhoods:, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
Workforce And Transportation Drill Downs Of Hud Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, And Community Development Block Grant Neighborhoods:, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
ETI Publications
In the past, descriptions of business activity in HUD Community Renewal areas have been difficult to assess at a geographic level necessary for planning and implementation purposes. This place-of-work and transportation analysis offers a first-time examination of existing jobs in the Renewal Community area, the location of jobs held by central city workers, and an analysis of commuters coming to the Community Renewal area. The place-of-work data are based on responses to the 2000 U.S. Census long-form questionnaire, provided to 1 in 6 households. The Employment and Training Institute has previously examined the purchasing power and workforce opportunities in dense …