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MARC PERRY: My name is Marc Perry. I am a demographer in the population division. I am chief of the population distribution branch. I have been at Census nearly 10 years now. And my office, as our name implies, we sort of analyze population distribution trends in the country. We look at the areas that are growing or declining, analyze sort of population movement, both state-to-state, and sort of regionally, and within areas.
MS. KINDELAN: Can you talk to us a little bit about the population trends in the coastal areas?
MR. PERRY: Actually, the number of people who live in a coastal county – and that is any county nationwide that has more than 15 percent of its land area in a coastal cataloging unit, essentially coastal drainage – the number of Americans in a coastal county recently passed the 150 million mark, so it’s about 53 percent of all Americans live in what we would consider a coastal county.
MS. KINDELAN: And how is this data used for emergency planning purposes, especially with the start of hurricane season?
MR. PERRY: One of the first things that you would need to know in any emergency situation is what