The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) population size and distribution patterns in California exert a major influence on the physical, social, and economic structure of the state and on the quality of the environment generally; (2) sound and current data and methods to estimate population trends are necessary to enable state, regional, and local agencies to plan and function properly; and (3) there is a critical need for a proper study of the implications of present and future population trends in order that state, regional, and local agencies might develop or reexamine policies and actions based thereon. The Demographic Research Unit shall: (a) Develop basic demographic data and statistical compilations, which may include a current population survey and a mid-decade census. (b) Design and test methods of research and data collection. (c) Conduct local population estimates as required by law. (d) Validate all official census data and population statistics. (e) Analyze and prepare projections of enrollments in public schools, colleges, and universities. (f) Analyze governmental records to establish characteristics of migration and distribution. (g) Publish annual estimates of the population of the state and its composition. (h) Prepare short- and long-range projections of population and its composition. (i) Provide advisory services to state agencies and other levels of government. (j) Evaluate and recommend data requirements for determining population and population growth. (k) Analyze the demographic features of the causes and consequences of patterns of natural increase or decrease, migration, and population concentration within the state. ( l ) Assess the need for population data required for determining the allocation of federal, state, and other subvention revenues. (m) Request and obtain from any department, division, commission, or other agency of the state all assistance and information to enable the unit to effectively carry out the provisions of this section. (n) Cooperate with the Office of Planning and Research with respect to functions involving mutual areas of concern relating to demography and state planning. (o) Enter into agreements to carry out the purposes of this section, including the application for and acceptance of federal funds or private foundation grants for demographic studies. (p) Act as primary state government liaison with the Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, in the acquisition and distribution of census data and related documentation to state agencies. (q) Administer, with other agencies, a State Census Data Center which will be responsible for acquiring decennial and other census data from the Bureau of the Census, and for providing necessary information to the Legislature and to the executive branch and for seeking to ensure the availability of census information to local governments. The unit and the Office of Planning and Research shall be responsible for designating subcenters of the State Census Data Center as needed. The unit will provide materials to subcenters of the State Census Data Center, will coordinate the efforts of the subcenters to avoid duplication and may consult in the design of standard reports to be offered by the center and its subcenters. (r) Coordinate with the Office of Planning and Research Environmental Data Center for the purposes of ensuring consistency and compatibility of data products, improving public access to data, ensuring the consistent interpretation of data, and avoiding duplication of functions. (s) (1) Determine those census tracts that are to be designated census tracts based on data from the five-year American Community Survey (ACS). The census tracts that are within the highest quartile for both civilian unemployment and poverty statistics, as determined in paragraphs (2) and (3), shall be determined to be designated census tracts as described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 17053.73, and paragraph (7) of sub
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