Talk:Hawaii statistical areas

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Kalawao County is part of the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina MSA
After a long discussion at Talk:Kalawao County, Hawaii, I realized that this article was wrong in not including Kalawao County as part of the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina MSA.

Supporting sources for Kalawao County being part of the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina MSA are: which indicates:

Unless someone can get to the corrections before I do, I will work on this over the course of the next week or so. I plan to eliminate one of the two 2018 census columns, since both Maui & Kalawao Counties are part of the same MSA. Maybe I can procure some map images as well. Peaceray (talk) 00:38, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI MSA Situation & Outlook Report.


 * Much appreciate the lively discussion on this on the MSA page, but as the person who's been going through and modifying/updating these state CBSA lists, I have to agree with the other editor involved in that discussion. The OMB is the sole arbiter of which counties go in a given core-based statistical area, and these definitions change somewhat frequently - they were last updated in September 2018 as indicated by the source I cite for these definitions. I don't rely on the Census Bureau's CBSA population estimates because they often rely on outdated CBSA delineations, as do other government organizations you're using to support your claim, like the USDA. Exclusion of Kalawao County from the Kahului MSA does not mean the county itself has ceased to exist, it just means that the connection between it and the principal county (Maui) is not considered strong or significant enough to include it in the MSA. Whether or not this is actually the case is an interesting discussion to be had, but inherently subjective. Whether the OMB is right or wrong in excluding Kalawao County is up for debate, but the definition of the MSA itself is not - it only consists of Maui County according to the one authoritative source for this data. I'm about to go through and update the pages I've overhauled already with 2019 data (so Alabama-Michigan, going alphabetically) and when I get to this page I plan to revise it. I do like the map images you added though and certainly intend to keep those. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhonetalsma (talk • contribs) 15:02, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Where then is the OMB's listing of the composition of the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina MSA? The only citations that I have seen thus far from the OMB merely list the MSAs & do not speak to their composition. Therefore, I believe we must accept the authority of the US Census Bureau, the USDA, & the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which do define the MSA. To interpret the OMB's simple listing of the MSA as defining the composition is original research. Peaceray (talk) 16:24, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * This image from the Census Bureau, File:Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI Metropolitan Statistical Area.png, to me is authoritative. Peaceray (talk) 16:32, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You can find the delineation of the MSA with its component counties listed on page 55 of this document: [] (page 59 of the PDF). Again, the Census Bureau does not delineate the MSA definition. It relies on the OMB to delineate the MSA and then tabulates the MSA's population based on that. The MSAs go through more frequent changes than the annual population estimates the Census Bureau puts out. Of course, any given MSA doesn't change every single time the OMB puts out a new bulletin, but in this case, it would seem that it did. If Kalawao County were added back to the MSA in the future by the OMB, this page would of course need to be updated to reflect that -- that's just the nature of this dataset. (Editing to add that the map you're citing is from 2012 and not at all authoritative given how frequently this data changes) Rhonetalsma (talk) 16:42, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I have a very different interpretation:


 * To get a definitive explanation, I will write to my former congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, in whose district Kalawao and Maui Counties are located, & to see if her office can get a contact within the OMB to clarify this. I do not think this will be instantaneous, therefore I ask for some time to resolve this. Peaceray (talk) 18:00, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I have not heard back yet from Tulsi Gabbard's office. I am noting that there was a difference between https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OMB-BULLETIN-NO.-18-03-Final.pdf & https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bulletin-18-04.pdf. Kalawao County was in the former, but not subsequently. If I hear nothing back from the congresswoman's office by the weekend, I will revert to the former version. Peaceray (talk) 18:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)