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Before We Begin; Key
Terms, Concepts, and
LUCA Materials
2010 Census LUCA Training Workshop

BEFORE WE BEGIN;
KEY TERMS,
CONCEPTS, AND
LUCA MATERIALS
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In this section, you will learn some important Census Bureau
terminology, as well as the materials you will receive when you
participate in the program.

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Overview

2010 Census LUCA Training Workshop

Objectives
Upon completion of this section, you will be able to:
• Describe key terms and concepts related to the
LUCA program
• Identify the LUCA materials provided by the
Census Bureau

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Objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe key concepts and terms related to the LUCA program.
• Identify the LUCA materials provided by the Census Bureau.

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LUCA Terms and Concepts
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LUCA Terms and
Concepts

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Before we get started, you will need to understand some common
terminology and concepts you will encounter during today’s workshop
and your LUCA review.
You may note the definition of each as the slide is displayed.
Visit the Census Bureau’s website at www.census.gov for additional
terms and definitions.

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LUCA Terms and Concepts

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Housing Unit
A single-family house, townhouse, mobile home,
trailer, apartment, group of rooms, or a single room
occupied as a separate living quarters or, if vacant,
intended for occupancy as a separate living quarters.
A separate living quarters is one in which one or more
occupants (or intended occupants, if vacant) live
separate from any other individual(s) in the building
and have direct access to the living quarters without
going through another living quarters, such as from
outside the building or through a common hall.

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Housing Unit
The Census Bureau’s definition of a housing unit is described above.

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Housing Unit
Acceptable housing units
• Houses, townhouses, condominiums,
apartments
• Living quarters in a nonresidential structure
(church apartment)
• Mobile homes or trailers occupied as living
quarters
• Residences under construction and habitable
as of Census Day
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Acceptable Housing Units
This slide contains a list of acceptable housing units that should be
included on your address list.

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Group Quarters
A place where people live or stay, in a group living
arrangement, that is owned or managed by an entity or
organization providing housing and/or services for the
residents. This is not a typical household-type living
arrangement. These services may include custodial or
medical care as well as other types of assistance, and
residency is commonly restricted to those receiving
these services. People living in group quarters are
usually not related to each other.

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Group Quarters
This slide is the Census Bureau’s definition of a group quarters.

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Group Quarters
Acceptable Group Quarters

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•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Correctional facilities
Juvenile facilities
Nursing homes
Hospitals with long-term care
College residences
Worker dormitories
Religious group quarters
Shelters or group homes

• Under construction and habitable as of
Census Day
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Acceptable Group Quarters
This slide contains a list of acceptable group quarters that should be
included on your address list.

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Unacceptable Housing Units and Group Quarters

•
•
•
•
•
•

Condemned/scheduled for demolition
Conversion to nonresidence
Nonresidential storage
Nonresidential office or building
Ceremonial purpose building
Construction not habitable on Census Day

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Unacceptable Housing Units and Group Quarters
This slide contains a list of unacceptable Housing Units and Group
Quarters that should be excluded from your address list.

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Census Bureau Addresses
Census Bureau divides addresses into two use types:
1. Residential
• addresses of housing units and group quarters
2. Nonresidential
•

addresses of a structure or unit within a
structure that does not serve as a residence,
such as commercial establishments, schools,
government offices, and churches
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Census Bureau Addresses
The Census Bureau divides all addresses into two use types, residential
and nonresidential.

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City-Style Address
Housing units and group quarters in the US with a house
number and street name address (e.g., 123 W. Main Street).
City-style addresses for housing units in multi-unit structures
(apartment buildings) contain a unit designator (Apt 101 or
Ste D). These designators are part of the housing unit
address and are included in the address record.
Some city-style addresses, referred to as E-911 addresses,
are used only to provide location for emergency services,
such as police, fire, and rescue.

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City-Style Addresses
The majority of housing units and group quarters in the U.S. have a
house number and street name address, such as 123 W. Main Street. You
can update, add and submit city-style addresses only.

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Noncity-Style Address
Addresses with no house number and/or street name,
the majority of which are located in the more sparsely
settled areas.
Frequently used noncity-style mailing addresses
include:
• General delivery
• Rural route and box number
• Highway contract route and box number
• Post Office box only delivery
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Noncity-Style Addresses
The Census Bureau classifies addresses that do not include a house
number and/or street name as noncity-style addresses. You cannot
update, add, and/or submit noncity-style addresses.

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Geocoding
The geographic location indicators (state, county,
census tract, and census block) for an address.
The Census Bureau will not accept an address
without geocodes.

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Geocoding
The Census Bureau REQUIRES the inclusion of census geographic code
information to process your address submissions. This link to “census
geography” is referred to as geocoding.
Geocoding places an individual address in its correct geographic location,
which includes the correct state, county, census tract, and census block
codes. You can find these codes on the Census Bureau’s Address List
and maps.
The Census Bureau will not accept addresses without census geographic
codes (geocodes).

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Census Tract
A small, relatively
permanent statistical
subdivision of a county,
or statistically equivalent
entity, delineated for the
purpose of presenting
Census Bureau statistical
data.
In the graphic, the
census tract boundary is
represented by the green
line.
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Census Tract
Census tracts are uniquely numbered within a county, and contain
numerous census blocks.

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Census Block
An area bounded by
visible features (streets,
roads, streams, and
railroad tracks) and
non-visible features
(boundaries of
governmental units)
In the graphic, Census
Blocks are represented
by green numbers
(2004, 3002, etc.)

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Census Block
Census blocks are numbered within census tracts are unique to the census
tract to which they belong. Suffixes such as 2011A and 2011B reflect
boundary changes as well as added features.

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Census Bureau’s Address List
• Contains residential addresses (city-style and
noncity-style) and geocodes
• Used by LUCA participants who choose to
receive an address list
• Available in paper or computer-readable file

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Census Bureau’s Address List
The Census Bureau’s Address List contains all of the residential
addresses, both housing unit and group quarters addresses, known to the
Census Bureau for your jurisdiction.

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Paper Address List

Fictitious addresses – For training purposes only

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Paper Address List
The Address List contains 6 addresses per page and is available for
jurisdictions with 6000 addresses or less. The example shows both citystyle and noncity-style addresses. The gray columns and/or rows indicate
that they cannot be edited.

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Computer-Readable Address List Files
• Pipe-delimited (|) ASCII files
• All spreadsheet and database programs can read
and understand the files
• If prompted, supply the following information about
the file, :
– Fields are delimited
– Delimiter is a pipe symbol
– Text qualifier is none
– All field types are text

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Computer-Readable Address List
The computer-readable Address List is a pipe-delimited ASCII file. If
you are prompted to supply information about the file by your
spreadsheet or database program, use the following parameters:
• Fields are delimited.
• Delimiter is a pipe symbol.
• Text qualifier is none.
• All field types are text.
It is critical that you define all field types as text.

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File Record Layout
Maximum
Character
Length

Field Name

Maximum
Character
Length

Field Name

12

Entity ID Code

100

7

Line Number

14

Street Name
Street Name Suffix Type

9

MAFID

2

Street Name Suffix Direction

3

Street Suffix Qualifier

1

Action Code

2

State Code

100

3

County Code

53

Apartment/Unit Number

7

Census Tract Number

5

City-Style Mailing ZIP Code

5

Census Block Number

50

Noncity-Style Mail Delivery Address
(RR#, HCR#, or PO BOX#)

Location Description or GQ Name

1

Group Quarters Flag

5

Noncity-Style Mailing ZIP Code

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House Number

5

Structure Point

3

Street Name Prefix Qualifier

11

Structure Latitude

2

Street Name Prefix Direction

12

Structure Longitude

14

Street Name Prefix Type

1

City-Style Address Flag

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File Record Layout
The table in the slide lists the field and character limits for the computerreadable Address List.
The “city-style address flag” field indicates if the address record can be
updated. A “Y” indicates “YES” it is a city-style address and can be
updated. An “N” indicates “NO” it is not a city-style address and cannot
be updated.

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Example – City Style Address

PL4291059|107|
123456789| |
42|134|7654.01|
2345| |10| | |
|MAIN|ST| | | |
|15888| | | | | |Y

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Example – City Style Address Layout
This is an example of how the information may appear in the Address
List file before importing the file using your software program. The
example is a city-style address.

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Example - NoncityNoncity-Style Address
PL3942868|678|
234567891| |
39|074|2345|5432
| | | | |SCOTT LEVEL|
ROAD| | | 2-STORY
BRICK W/ATTACHED
GARAGE ON LEFT
| | |BOX 223|45555|9
| | |N

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Example – Noncity-Style Address
This slide displays an example of a computer-readable noncity-style
address layout.
Note that that field 26 contains an “N” indicating that this is a noncitystyle address and cannot be edited.

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Address List Add Page
Used by Option 1 paper format to add city-style addresses

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Address List Add Page
The Address List Add Page is used by Option 1 participants to add new
addresses. It is used with the paper format only.

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PAGE _________ OF ___________ PAGES

2010 CENSUS

Name of Preparer: _______________________
(Print Name)

LOCAL UPDATE OF CENSUS ADDRESSES PROGRAM

Date Completed: _________________________
(MM/DD/YYYY)

ADDRESS LIST ADD PAGE
Add Page For: ________________________________________________

Entity ID Code: _________________________

(Entity Name)

(Copy from Address List Page)

Census Geographic Location of Address (2)
Line
#
(1)

State
Code
Number
(2a)

County
Code
Number
(2b)

Census
Tract
Number
(2c)

Census
Block
Number
(2d)

Residential Address (4)
Group
Quarters?
(3)

House
Number
(4a)

Street or Road Name
(4b)
GQ Name
(4c)

Apartment/
Unit
Number
(4d)

City Style
Mailing ZIP
Code
(4e)

1

2

3

4

5

6

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Address Count List
• Contains the number of housing unit and group
quarters addresses on the Census Bureau’s address
list for each census block within your jurisdiction
• Used to compare address counts between the
Census Bureau and your local address list
• All participants receive the list

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Address Count List
The Address Count List is used to compare address counts for each
census block between the Census Bureau and your local address list.
This list is provided to all participants.

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Address Count List - Paper

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Paper Address Count List
The paper Address Count List contains two sections of six columns each.
In this example, there are 35 census blocks listed containing 944 housing
unit addresses and 22 group quarters addresses.

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2010 Census
Local Update of Census Addresses Program
Address Count List
ST/CO: 33/003
Carroll, NH
Entity: Conway town
PL3311025
Census
Tract
Number

49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01

Census
Block
Number

1001
1002
1003
1004
1005
1006
1007
1008
1010
1011
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
3001
3002
3003
3004
3005
3006

Form D-1692

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Census
Count of
Housing
Unit
Addresses

75
0

22
0
46
35
24
26
10
16
12
10
15
12
11
10
13
11
75

22
46
35
24
26
10

Local
Count of
Housing
Unit
Addresses

Date: 07/29/2007
Page: 1
of
1
Census
Count of
Group
Quarters
Addresses

2
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
2
0
0
1

Local
Count of
Group
Quarters
Addresses

Census
Tract
Number

49.01
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
TOTAL

Census
Block
Number

3007
2010B
2011
2012
2013
2024
2025
2037
3038
3039

Census
Count of
Housing
Unit
Addresses

75

22
46
75

22

35

46
35
24
6
7
944

Local
Count of
Housing
Unit
Addresses

Census
Count of
Group
Quarters
Addresses

Local
Count of
Group
Quarters
Addresses

2
0
1
2
0
1
2
0
0
0
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U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Census Bureau

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Computer-Readable Address Count List
File Record Layout
Maximum
Character
Length

Field Name

12

Entity ID Code

2

State Code

3

County Code

7

Census Tract and Suffix

5

Census Block and Suffix

7

Census Count of Housing Unit Addresses

7

Local Count of Housing Unit Addresses

7

Census Count of Group Quarters
Addresses

7

Local Count of Group Quarters Addresses

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Computer Readable Address Count List – File Record Layout
This example lists the information and maximum length of each field in
the order the field appears in the Address Count List.
The maximum length of each block record is 57 characters. Each record
contains 9 fields of information. The character length of each record may
vary.

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Pipe-delimited Computer-Readable
Address Count List

PL1622233|16|089|6789.01|5432|765| |3|

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Computer Readable Address Count List – Example
This is how the Address Count List appears before importing the file into
your spreadsheet program.
This example is for a place, entity ID code PL1622233, in the state of Idaho.
The state code is 16, the place code is 22233, and the county code is 089.
There are 765 housing unit addresses and three (3) group quarters addresses
in Census Tract 6789.01, Census Block 5432.

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Computer-Readable Address Count List
Total Row Layout

| | | |TOTAL|45|825| |3|

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Computer Readable Address Count List – Total Row Layout
The last row is a total row that records the total number of Census Blocks
(45), Census Bureau Housing Unit Addresses (825), and Census Bureau
Group Quarters Addresses (3) on the Address Count List.

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Census Bureau Map
• Provides a reference for locating and geocoding
addresses and to update and correct your
jurisdiction’s features and boundaries
• Available in paper or shapefiles

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Census Bureau Map
The Census Bureau map provides a reference for geocoding individual
addresses and noting changes to your jurisdiction’s features and boundaries.
It is available in paper form or shapefile for use with a Geographic
Information System (GIS).
You may use your LUCA maps to provide updates to your legal boundaries.
If your government provides legal boundary updates during LUCA, the
Census Bureau will not contact your government to participate in the 2008
Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). You must register to participate
in the LUCA program before October 31, 2007 to receive your 2008 BAS
materials with your LUCA program materials.

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Paper Map
Street

Census tract
boundary

Census block
number

Incorporated
place name
and FIPS
entity code

Unnamed road
Street name
Water feature
Census tract
number
Railroad

Census block
boundary

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Census Bureau Map
The Census Bureau paper map shows some of the same information found
on a typical road map, such as streets and roads, water features, and legal
boundaries. However, the Census Bureau map displays the information
using symbols unique to the Census Bureau.

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Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship
List
• For use with paper maps
• Displays the map sheet number on which each
census block is located

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Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship List
The Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship List is provided to
participants using a paper format. It contains a table that shows the map
sheet number on which each census block is located.

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Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship
List

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Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship List
In this example, Block # 2013 in Census Tract 49.02 is located on map
sheet numbers 1 and 2. The list is sorted sequentially by census tract and
census block.

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Map Sheet to Block Number Relationship List
ST/CO: 14/015
Listing for: DARLINGTON COUNTY
Census
Tract
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01

Current
Census
Block #
1001
1002
1003
1004
1005
1006
1007
1008
1009
1010
1011
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
3001
3002
3003

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Map# (s)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Date:
Page:

CO14015
Census
Tract
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.01
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02
49.02

Current
Census
Block #
3004
3005
3006
3007
2010B
2011
2012
2013
3024
3025
3037
3038
3039

Map# (s)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1,2
1,2
2
2
2
2

Census
Tract

07/29/2007
1 of 1

Current
Census
Block #

Map# (s)

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Shapefiles Overview
•
•
•
•

Created to facilitate electronic updates
Requires the use of GIS software
Contains no Title 13 information
Provided in Environmental Systems Research
Institute (ESRI) shapefile format
• Provided in an “all lines” layer shapefile
• Provided with shapefile layers for legal boundary
edits

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Shapefiles
• Created from the Master Address File/Topographically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database.
• Requires the use of GIS software.
o GIS experience is necessary.
• Contains no Title 13 information.
• All shapefiles are provided by the Census Bureau in
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)* shapefile
format.
• The Census Bureau provides an “all lines” shapefile layer.
• The Census Bureau provides shapefile layers for legal
boundaries.
Call the Help Desk if you need assistance.
*The use of brand names does not represent an endorsement of a company or its products by the U.S.
government. Due to the wide use of ESRI products by our partners in the GIS community, and
ubiquitous use of the shapefile format as a medium for GIS data exchange, the Census Bureau provides
data in shapefile format.
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Census Bureau’s
MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS)
• Computer software provided by the Census
Bureau that allows you to update the address
list, address count list, and maps
• Appropriate for any level of government
• Helps users meet Census Bureau’s
formatting requirements

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Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS)
• Computer software provided by the Census Bureau that allows
you to update the address list, address count list, and maps.
• Appropriate for any level of government.
• Designed to help users meet Census Bureau’s formatting
requirements.
You will need to provide:
o PC with Windows 98 operating system or newer (cannot use
Macintosh).
o 128 MB RAM memory minimum (ideal 1 GB).
o 10 GB free space minimum (ideal 80 GB) on your hard
drive.
o CD-ROM or DVD ROM read/write drive.
Note: Access to the internet is not required.
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Address List
Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS)

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MTPS Address List
• This slide is an example of what the Address List looks like.
• The first box of the enlarged section shows the Action Code
column along with the Census Geography (census geographic
codes) of where the address is located.
o You use the Action Code column to record corrective
actions to individual addresses.
o Census geographic codes include the state code, county
code, tract code and block number.
• The second box shows a portion of the city-style address
information including the House Number, Prefix Direction (such
as North or West), Prefix Type (such as US HWY or ST HWY),
Street Name and Suffix Type (such as Road or Avenue).
• The fields in green cannot be updated. The addresses highlighted
in green are noncity-style addresses and cannot be updated as
well.
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Address Count List
Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS)

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Address Count List
• This slide is an example of what the address count list looks like.
• The enlarged area details the block number, the Census housing
unit (HU) count, the Local housing unit (HU) count, the Census
group quarters (GQ) count and the Local group quarters (GQ)
count.
• When you update an address in the address list, the block that the
address is located in on the Address Count List will highlight in
green indicating that you will not be able to edit the address
count list for that block..
• Conversely, when you update the Address Count List for a block,
the addresses in the Address List for that block will be
highlighted in green.

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Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS)

Map

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MTPS Map Display
• Initially, when you first review the map, it will be zoomed out to
display the entire extent of your entity. This slide is an example
of the map zoomed in. You can see the map legend on the right
which you can hide or move around the full screen. You can also
see the block numbers.

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Address
Count
List

Map

Address List
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MTPS Screen Shot
• This is an example of how the map, Address List, and Address
Count List fit on the screen. All of the windows can be resized or
hidden based on your needs.

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Using Toolbars

Line Editing Toolbox
(for editing roads)

Save Edits
Add Line

Edit Line Attributes

Pick Block

LUCA Toolbox
(for editing the
address list and
address count list)

Add a new
address record

Move structure point
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MTPS Toolbox Slide
• The MTPS provides toolboxes to organize the tools you need to
make changes to the maps and Address Lists.
• The Line Editing toolbox consists of tools used to edit the Census
Bureau maps. You can add or delete lines as well as edit line
attributes such as road names or feature types.
• The LUCA Toolbox allows you to make edits to the Address List
and add new addresses.

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LUCA Materials

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2010 Census LUCA User Guide
2010 Census Local Update of Census Addresses
(LUCA) Program
User Guide

May 2007

Option 1 – Full Address List Review
Paper Format

110011

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2010 Census LUCA User Guide
The 2010 Census LUCA User Guide provides instructions and examples
for reviewing and updating your LUCA program materials. The User
Guide is specific to the participation option that you choose.

A paper copy of the 2010 Census LUCA User Guide will be sent
participants who choose to receive paper address products. Computerreadable participants will have the user guide on their CD-ROM.

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Review Questions
Instructions
1. This is an individual exercise.
2. On the following page is a series of questions. Read each question,
then record your answer in the space provided. You have 5
minutes to record your answers.
3. At the conclusion of the exercise, your instructor will review the
correct answers.

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Review Questions
1.

Question: Houses, townhouses, condominiums, apartments, or
mobile homes occupied as living quarters are examples of what?

2.

Question: What does the Census Bureau call an address that has a
street name but no house number?

3.

Question: What is the Census Bureau’s software package that
allows you to update the address list, address count list, and/or
maps?

4.

Question: What does the Census Bureau call a place where people
live or stay that is normally owned or managed by an entity or
organization providing housing and/or services for the residents?

5.

Question: What is the information that places an individual address
in its correct geographic location, which includes the correct state,
county, census tract, and census block codes?

6.

Question: What types of addresses can you submit to the Census
Bureau?

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Summary
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Summary
• The Census Bureau uses many unique terms
and concepts you need to understand for
successful completion of a LUCA Review.
• Remember, census geographic codes
must be accurately recorded on all address
records you submit to the Census Bureau!

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In this section, you learned about the different terms and concepts
employed by the Census Bureau that you will encounter throughout your
LUCA review. The Census Bureau uses many unique terms and
concepts you need to understand for successful completion of your
LUCA Review.
Remember, census geographic codes (state code, county code, census
tract number, census block number) must be accurately recorded on
all address records you submit to the Census Bureau!

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