Post by kri on Jan 31, 2005 12:02:00 GMT -6
Well, not exactly, but...
Over at the American Geographical Society today, I was doing some research with the 2000 US Census, finding the current area and population of Talossa's fifteen cantons (a.k.a. census tracts). Now, the whole point of a census tract is the boundaries are supposed to be fixed and unchanging (not to mention steel-hard and firm) so you can do population and demographic comparisons from census to census.
Well, the 2000 census, for whatever reason, has changed a number of the census tract boundaries. Fortunately, using a combination of 1990 and 2000 data, I appear to have the "correct" area for each canton and I can enter these data in the perhaps forthcoming edition of the National Atlas of Talossa.
But the biggest change of all, territorially, between the 2000 and 1990 boundaries, is that in 2000, the Feds have assigned Lake Park (the entire coastal region of my home province of Vuode) to a different census tract -- the one making up the northern half of Maritiimi-Maxhestic Province!
Does this indicate that M-M province has nefarious designs on the territorial integrity of Vuode? My family, the McGarrys, and Gary Cone will rise to defend our home province against this unwarranted Southern aggression!
Seriously, this doesn't affect the Talossan canton boundaries at all (hallowed as they are by law and tradition) but it does make it harder to do population research. From what I can tell, the only changes that were made by the Feds in the canton boundaries involve uninhabited areas (some land by the river, and Lake Park). Which makes you wonder why they bothered making the changes in the first place.
R. Ben Madison
Director of the Talossan Cartographic Institute
Over at the American Geographical Society today, I was doing some research with the 2000 US Census, finding the current area and population of Talossa's fifteen cantons (a.k.a. census tracts). Now, the whole point of a census tract is the boundaries are supposed to be fixed and unchanging (not to mention steel-hard and firm) so you can do population and demographic comparisons from census to census.
Well, the 2000 census, for whatever reason, has changed a number of the census tract boundaries. Fortunately, using a combination of 1990 and 2000 data, I appear to have the "correct" area for each canton and I can enter these data in the perhaps forthcoming edition of the National Atlas of Talossa.
But the biggest change of all, territorially, between the 2000 and 1990 boundaries, is that in 2000, the Feds have assigned Lake Park (the entire coastal region of my home province of Vuode) to a different census tract -- the one making up the northern half of Maritiimi-Maxhestic Province!
Does this indicate that M-M province has nefarious designs on the territorial integrity of Vuode? My family, the McGarrys, and Gary Cone will rise to defend our home province against this unwarranted Southern aggression!
Seriously, this doesn't affect the Talossan canton boundaries at all (hallowed as they are by law and tradition) but it does make it harder to do population research. From what I can tell, the only changes that were made by the Feds in the canton boundaries involve uninhabited areas (some land by the river, and Lake Park). Which makes you wonder why they bothered making the changes in the first place.
R. Ben Madison
Director of the Talossan Cartographic Institute