In 1987, the Eno Transportation Foundation published a book called Commuting in America by transportation researcher Alan Pisarski. The book was based on 1980 census data, and included information about differences in vehicles per household and commuting habits by sex, age, race, incomes, and poverty status.
Last Thursday, the Census Bureau published data from the 2019 American Community Survey just 9-1/2 months after the end of the year. I downloaded much of the data related to transportation and wrote up my draft analysis by Saturday afternoon, sending it to Pisarski for review. My analysis looked at vehicles per household and commuting habits by sex, age, race, incomes, and poverty status.
“It’s almost comical,” he responded, recalling that that it took the Census Bureau several years to get the 1980 census data ready for him to use, and then it took him two years to analyze the data and write the book, whereas I was able to draft a mini-replication of his work in two days. “Years to days is nice,” he said.
I was faster than him not because I am any smarter but because I have a better computer and access to the internet, which he didn’t have. Computers are also why the Census Bureau was able to publish 2019 data in 9-1/2 months when it took several years for it to publish similar data in 1980.
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I’ve been working at home since the mid-1990s, but initially I had to be located near a major university to get access to census and other data in the university’s library. Since 2005 or so even that hasn’t been necessary. I remember in 1995 laboriously photocopying books of census data, then in 1999 I was able to download those same data from the Census Bureau web site. (Unfortunately, the Census Bureau no longer has 1990 or even 2000 data available on line, but that could easily be remedied.)
When I spent several semesters at various universities in 1998 through 2001, I used the data I was able to access in their libraries to write my first book on urban issues. By 2010, I no longer needed access to a library to write a book. If an older resource wasn’t on line, I could usually find it on bookfinder.com and buy it for a few dollars.
I’m just a sample of one, but the pandemic has opened people’s eyes to the declining need to work in a big-city office along with the virtues of working at home. Yet this trend was already growing before the pandemic, as will be shown in my review of 2019 American Community Survey data, which will appear in tomorrow’s Antiplanner.
