Allocation of 1980 Place of Work Data
In the 1980 Journey to Work tabulations, 8,289,642 workers are listed as
"Place of Work Not Reported." This is nearly 8.6 percent of all workers
in the data set. To improve the comparability of the 1980 Journey to work
data with the 1990 and 2000 Census Transportation Planning Package data on jobs by
place of work, HUD allocated the 1980 totals for workers not reporting
a place of work according to the geographic distribution of workers who
did report a place of work. The allocation was performed separately for
each variable in the SOCDS tables. For example, if x percent of
manufacturing workers living in Chicago reported working in Chicago, then
x percent of the manufacturing workers living in Chicago not reporting
a place of work were allocated to Chicago as their place of work. Allocations were
performed on county place parts for places existing in multiple counties.
New England MCDS were assigned allocated place data for those New England MCDs coterminous
with their corresponding places.
Send comments or report errors to: to: Alastair.W.Mcfarlane@hud.gov