Census 2000 is due to release California redistricting
statistics before April 1, raising questions on issues ranging
from the size of the state's minority and multiracial population
to the flow of federal money into California. There is a new
category for Pacific Islanders, while the demography of aging-
and its impact on Social Security- continues to generate news.
We have prepared a list of University of California, Berkeley,
experts from law, political science, demography, ethnic
studies and statistics who can comment on these issues in
the context of the new census figures.
UC BERKELEY CENSUS EXPERTS
Bruce Cain
Professor of political science; director of the Institute
of Governmental Studies
Office phone: (510) 642-1739
E-mail: bruce@cain.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Redistricting; California politics.
Elizabeth Deakin
Professor of City and Regional Planning; director of the
UC Transportation Center
Office phone: (510) 642-4749
E-mail: edeakin@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Transportation and the census; Caltrans study
John Landis
Professor of City and Regional Planning
Office phone: (510) 642-5918
E-mail: jlandis@uclink.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Metropolitan development; local changes in urban-suburban
population distribution
Ronald D. Lee
Professor of demography and economics
Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of
Aging
Office phone: (510) 642-4535
E-mail: rlee@demog.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Aging, life expectancy; population forecasts and long-term
projections; impact of demographic trends on Social Security.
Karin Mac Donald
Director of the Statewide Database (redistricting data
for California)
Institute of Governmental Studies
Office phone: (510) 642-9086
E-mail: karin@cain.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Census data and redistricting.
Rachel Moran
Professor of law; holds the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven
Chair at Boalt Hall
Office phone: (510) 643-6351
E-mail: moran@law.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Construction of racial categories; multiracial identity;
interracial marriage; transracial adoption, affirmative
action.
Michael Omi
Associate professor of ethnic studies
Acting director of the Institute for the Study of Social
Change
Office phones: (510) 643-8744; (510) 642-0813
E-mail: omi@uclink.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Ethnic diversification of California; census and the multiracial
population; the undercount; impact of the census on federal
money in the state; construction of racial categories.
John Radke
Professor of Environmental Planning; director of UC Berkeley's
Geographic Information Science Center
Office phone: (510) 643-5995
E-mail: ratt@gisc.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
geo-referencing of census data; density of cities; rates
of population change at the neighborhood level
Philip Stark
Professor of statistics
Office phone: (510) 6421430
E-mail: stark@stat.berkeleyl.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Adjustments to the census; overcount and errors in the census;
inferences from large data sets.
Kenneth Wachter
Chair and professor of the Department of Demography; professor
of statistics
Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on the census
Office phone: (510) 642-1578
E-mail: wachter@demog.berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Census adjustments and processes; overcounts and undercounts;
the census technique of Demographic Analysis; historical
demography and statistics.
