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Spatial data uncertainty for location modeling: Ghost blocks and their implications
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DOI：10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103266.png)
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Census blocks are administrative units that serve as statistical areas for the decennial Census in the United States. Visible and nonvisible features bound blocks, including roads, railroads, streams, property lines, and city boundaries. The Census Bureau builds blocks using the Master Address File (MAF), which includes field-verified geographic information about the location of housing unit addresses. Unfortunately, there are substantial errors in the counts of housing units at the block level, even with the purported quality checks by the Census Bureau. This paper aims to detail a method of identifying problematic blocks (i.e., ghost blocks) that report the presence of housing units, but no such units exist. Further, we identify the implications of using ghost blocks in location models using the maximal covering location problem (MCLP) in a case study for sensor locations in Los Angeles, California. We discuss policy implications and strategies to address these errors for developing higher-fidelity location models.
Keywords:
Census
Master address file
Uncertainty
Housing units
Location modeling
Spatial analysis
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