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4. Roundtable and Concluding Sessions
4. Roundtable and Concluding Sessions
Pages 45-52
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The ACS has been designed as a continuing household survey which, when fully implemented, will provide annually updated demographic and economic information for small areas. Content will be similar to that of the decennial census long form.
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ACS data for the largest areas will be released starting in luly 2004, to be followed by data for successively smaller areas over the next four years. Linda Gage, the state demographer with the California Department of Finance, discussed the role of current population estimates in determining the relative amounts received by states under various funding formulas.
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Taking into account this difference plus the 1990 census estimate of undercount for California, Gage believes that the numbers currently being used in funding formulas are about 5 to 6 percent below the state's true population. She expressed her concern about the effects of differential underestimation on funding to the states, and her hope that evaluation of estimation procedures following the 2000 census can lead to changes that will reduce the extent of the divergence between their estimates and those produced by the U.S.
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· In the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program, the secretary of the interior is authorized to establish eligibility to general-purpose local governments in standard metropolitan statistical areas. · Under the Rural Homelessness Grant Program, which makes grants to organizations providing direct emergency assistance to homeless individuals and families in rural areas, the terms "rural area" and "rural community" mean any area or community, no part of which is within an area designated as a standard metropolitan statistical area by the U.S.
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It should address questions such as how to integrate measures of need, cost, and fiscal capacity into a formula and whether there are other components, such as outcome measures, that should be included. Some participants alluded to the resources provided for research on improving the data and the formula allocation procedures used in the Title I education and WIC programs, and suggested that other formula allocation programs might benefit from similar provisions.
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Transfers of funds can affect recipients in ways that are not necessarily intended or obvious. For example, in the legislation under which Medicare distributes extra funds to hospitals that take care of disproportionate numbers of low-income persons, the amounts hospitals receive are determined by the numbers of Medicare and Medicaid patients they serve.
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In his judgment, Aaron said, the process of collecting data for use in allocation formulas on topics, such as poor children, nutritional intake, and various illnesses, has an important educational function in shaping political views about what is considered decent and acceptable. Nevertheless, in the final analysis, to some degree the choice of formula inputs reflects a political compromise or consensus, and this is what determines the amounts of money transferred.
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What is more important, however, is to understand what makes a program work. Aaron observed that statisticians, working to address this question in collaboration with economists, sociologists, and other social scientists, can make important .
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