[CTPP] RE: ctpp-news Digest, Vol 65, Issue 6

[wendell cox]

I think you may have an old definition, which would mean the cited page is
wrong. There are no more CMSAs nor are there any PMSAs (Thank God). There
are CSAs... similar to CMSAs and metropolitan divisions have replaced
PMSAs.
More current definitions are at:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metroarea.html


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Lingala, Vishu
<vlingala at evansvillempo.com>wrote:

> Here's the definition of MSA from
> Census.gov(http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/epss/glossary_m.html)
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> Vishu.
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> Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
> A geographic entity defined by the federal Office of Management and
> Budget for use by federal statistical agencies, based on the concept of
> a core area with a large population nucleus, plus adjacent communities
> having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core.
> Qualification of an MSA requires the presence of a city with 50,000 or
> more inhabitants, or the presence of an Urbanized Area (UA) and a total
> population of at least 100,000 (75,000 in New England). The county or
> counties containing the largest city and surrounding densely settled
> territory are central counties of the MSA. Additional outlying counties
> qualify to be included in the MSA by meeting certain other criteria of
> metropolitan character, such as a specified minimum population density
> or percentage of the population that is urban. MSAs in New England are
> defined in terms of minor civil divisions, following rules concerning
> commuting and population density.
>
> Related terms: Consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA),
> Primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA)
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> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:23:36 -0400
> From: Nancy Reger <Nreger at morpc.org>
> Subject: RE: [CTPP] Urban Area Boundaries
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> I have a question about how the ACS will be used to define MSA's---
> since the commuter data is key to MSA definition, does anyone know how
> these will be defined in the future?
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> Nancy Reger, AICP
> Assistant Director, Transportation
> Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission
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> On June 12 FHWA and Census Staff hosted a webinar on the Census Bureau's
> plans for defining Urbanized Area Boundaries.  At the webinar more
> questions were asked than there was time answer.  Consequently all the
> questions were collected and Q/A developed.  It can be downloaded from
> the CTPP webinar room by going to http://fhwa.acrobat.com/ctpp1,
> entering as a guest and saving the "Census Q and A v8.pdf" file to your
> computer.
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> In the webinar room there are also links to the recording of the
> complete June 12 webinar (http://fhwa.na3.acrobat.com/p20171907/) as
> well as several other recorded webinars.
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> For your convenience I have also attached the Q/As to this email.
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