Data Questions

[evz]

OK, I swear I started this last night...

Anyways, Derek and I were talking about questions we might have about the data and thought it might be smart to start compiling a list so that the next time we have someone from the Census Bureau on the phone we can see about getting some answers. I'll start:

• Is there any way of accounting for telecommuting in the origin destination data? • What do the job types (primary, private, private primary, federal, and federal primary) actually refer to? • How reliable is the geocoding? If a worker works for a McDonalds, does their job exist at the location of the McDonalds or at the corporate headquarters? • If the company that a worker works for is in, for example, the retail industry but their job could be described as a job in technology, what gets reported in these data?