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Portland State University - Population Research Center

OREGON & WASHINGTON

STATE DATA CENTERS (SDC)

Joint Virtual Annual Affiliate Meeting

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Dear Oregon SDC Network Members,

Thank you for your patience with delays in circulating information about our upcoming Census Data Users conferences. We had some uncertainty as to whether our plans would be affected by the possible government freeze, and obtaining a final agenda from the Census Bureau. I'm happy to report that we will be able to proceed as planned.

We will be convening jointly with the members of the Washington State Census Data Center. Our events this year are focused on presentations by the U.S. Census Bureau. Thank you to those of you who have participated in the survey for the events that you would like to see in 2024. If you have not yet participated, we would love to hear from you through our data users survey.

Starting on Tuesday October 3 at 10:00am:

10:00am Opening remarks

10:05am Detailed-DHC data release from the 2020 Census

10:50am Urban and Rural Areas Updates

11:35am Break

11:50am Census Data in Geographic Grids

12:35pm Historical Decennial Census Data

1:30pm End

Registration is not necessary to attend this meeting. It will be hosted on Microsoft Teams by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here is the login information to participate remotely, on a computer or by telephone:

Microsoft Teams meeting

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Meeting ID: 264 545 851 482
Passcode: Ux68sa

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+1 347-973-4395,,811496747# United States, New York City

Phone Conference ID: 811 496 747#

The agenda for the second meeting date on October 24 will be shared as soon as it is available.

Thanks again for bearing with us and I look forward to seeing some of you there.

Sincerely,

Ethan Sharygin

Beginning in 1973 with the passage of Senate Bill (SB) 100, Oregon’s growth management system has relied on population forecasts as the primary tool for determining Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) expansions, as well as for crafting planning policy. By estimating future populations based on historic and current trends, as well as assuming the likelihood of future events, population forecasts provide necessary information to help planners, public officials, private firms, and developers better understand the short and long-term implications of population growth in local areas.

In the recent past, Oregon law required that counties prepare coordinated population forecasts according to "generally accepted" demographic methods, which yielded forecasts produced with a highly diverse set of methods. Equally important, the prohibitive cost of forecasting meant that not all communities could update their forecasts on a regular basis. Recognizing the need to be more responsive to accounting for current population trends by preparing population forecasts on a more regular basis, and with a consistent forecast methodology for communities across the state, the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate approved legislation in 2013 assigning coordinated population forecasting to the Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University (PSU).

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