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Get lost in the numbers: The latest U.S. statistical abstract is out |
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Dec 19, 2006 at 09:00 AM |
It's that time of year when the demographers jump with delight and the statisticians barely contain their enthusiasm, because the U.S.
Census Bureau released the 126th and latest version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States last week. The document contains 30 sections of various statistical data, not only from the prodigious databases of the U.S. government, but from international, industrial, and nonprofit organizational sources as well.
Five appendices (including one on limitations of the data), a comprehensive index, and several other ancillary chapters round out the massive document. Sections of interest to Chip Shots readers include Geography and Environment; Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings; Science and Technology; Manufactures; Information and Communications; and Comparative International Statistics.
But if you want analyses of these data, you'll have to do it yourself or look elsewhere. The tome provides a whole lot of dots waiting to be connected by enterprising marketing types, strategic thinkers, biz dev mavens, and other numbers geeks. Anyone who has some interesting statistical abstract dot-connections to share, please send them along to Chip Shots.
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