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Abortions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 116, 124, 125, 126Abrasives, stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Accidents and fatalities . . . . . 221, 1018, 1041, 1042,

1047, 1063Age of driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 1018, 1074, 1076Alcohol involvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Deaths and death rates . 136, 138, 139, 140, 141,

143, 148, 1041, 1042, 1047, 1063Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348Infants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Drownings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 706, 707, 708Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221, 222Motor vehicles . . . . . . . 138, 139, 141, 148, 1041,

1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046, 1047, 1362Motorcycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041Police officers assaulted, killed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Tanker casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 1018Work fatalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709, 710Work time lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Accountants and auditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) . 138,144, 224, 225, 226, 227

Acquisition of territory by the U.S . . . . . . . . . 388, 389Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Advertising:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675, 687, 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885, 1296, 1298

Aerobics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438, 439, 443Aeronautics, civil. See Air transportation.Aerospace industry:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469, 1470, 1471Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083Employees . . . . . . 1080, 1083, 1469, 1470, 1471Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087New orders, backlog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901, 1084, 1085Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469, 1470, 1471

Afghanistan. See Foreign countries.Africa. See Foreign countries.

Age of population. See Population.Aggravated assault . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 355Agricultural implements and machinery industry . 1233Agricultural loans. See Farm mortgage loans.Agricultural nonprofit associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Agricultural products. See Farms and individual

products.Agricultural sciences: Degrees conferred . . . . . . 322,

324, 325, 326, 1004Agricultural services:

Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675, 676, 867, 868, 874Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867, 868, 874

Agriculture (see also Farms and Farmers and farmworkers):

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Federal aid to state and local governments . 504Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1120, 1121, 1124, 1125Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691, 869, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675, 676, 869, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869, 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 857Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 903Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857, 869Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 903

Aid to families with dependent children . . . 605, 607,626, 627, 628, 629, 633

AIDS (acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome) . 138,144, 224, 225, 226, 227

Air conditioning:Homes with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211, 1223Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263

Air Force, Department of, personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . 586Air pollution:

Air pollution control equipment . . . . . . . . 408, 409,410, 1272

Emissions . . 398, 399, 400, 401, 404, 405, 1350Greenhouse gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Air traffic control specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080Air transportation:

Accidents and deaths . . . 148, 1018, 1074, 1076Airline markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073Airport summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072, 1077

Flight on-time performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077Bomb threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075Civil aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080, 1341Consumer complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078Cost indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

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Air transportation: —Con.Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070Orders booked/announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081Passenger outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Passenger screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Regional airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079Traffic carried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016, 1070, 1079

Air transportation industry:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1069, 1337Employees . . . . . . . 687, 1069, 1070, 1083, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . 452, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1083Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 1070Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898

Aircraft and parts industry, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1470, 1471Earnings . . . 687, 1083, 1233, 1469, 1470, 1471Employees . . . . . . . 687, 1083, 1233, 1470, 1471Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1087, 1469, 1470, 1471Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997Shipments . . . . . . 1084, 1233, 1234, 1238, 1469,

1470, 1471Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Airline operations (see also Air transportation) . 1070,1073

Airmail service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941Airplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Airports or airfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080

Airport and airway trust fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Federal aid to state and local government . . 504Serving regional airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072, 1077

Alcoholic beverages (see also Liquors andbeverages):

Alcoholism treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206, 236, 533Consumer expenditures . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736,

1285Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 249, 1245Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245

Alcohol-induced deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Alcohol involvement for drivers in fatal

crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048Alcohol testing at work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Alcohol treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206, 236, 533Aleut population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 53, 1102Algeria. See Foreign countries.Aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 351, 352

Border patrol activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352Criminal violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351Deported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351, 352Violations and prosecutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Alimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604All-terrain vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032Almonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1152Altitudes, geographical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Aluminum:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170

Aluminum: —Con.Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1241

Amebiasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224American College Testing Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut population . . 12, 18,

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34, 53, 54, 1004, 1102Age and/or sex . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 54Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48College enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Crime (arrests) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Farn operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102Hospital visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54, 75Immunization of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Projections . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 37, 38Property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 54

American Samoa. See Outlying areas of U.S.American Stock Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

Composite index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836AMTRAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Amusement and recreation services:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . 1294, 1296, 1297, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294, 1296, 1301Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427, 1294, 1296, 1298

Amusement Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444Analgesics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Anatomical devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Ancestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Anchovies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Andorra. See Foreign countries.Anemias, deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Anesthesiologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Angiocardiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208, 213Angola. See Foreign countries.Anguilla. See Foreign countries.Animal oils and fats. See Oils, animal.Animals, domestic (see also individual classes):

Grazing, national forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148Inventory and production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138

Annuities. See Pensions and retirement benefits.Antigua and Barbuda. See Foreign countries.Antimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175Apparel and accessory stores, retail:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1291

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Apparel and other finished products industry,manufacturing:

Earnings . . . 687, 1337, 1405, 1406, 1407, 1408,1409, 1410, 1411, 1438, 1439, 1440

Employees . 676, 687, 1337, 1405, 1406, 1407,1408, 1409, 1410, 1411, 1438, 1439, 1440

Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Foreign trade . . . 1250, 1326, 1405, 1406, 1407,

1408, 1409, 1410, 1411, 1438, 1439, 1440Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Mergers safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898Shipments . . . . . . . . . . 8, 1250, 1410, 1411, 1438,

1439, 1440Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Apparel goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944, 945, 946Consumer expenditures . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736,

737, 1287Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773, 780, 782

Appeals, U.S. courts of, cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366Apples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 773, 787, 1111, 1122, 1136Appliances, household:

Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Homes with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Appliances (household) industry, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1459Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1459Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1459Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Apricots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Aquaculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1162Archery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439, 442Architectural services. See Engineering and

architectural services.Area of:

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343Forest land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149, 1150Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 387, 1343

Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Public domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 387, 392

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343Argentina. See Foreign countries.Arizona. See State data.Arkansas. See State data.Armed Forces . . 580, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587,

591Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396

Armenia. See Foreign countries.Arms exports and imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575, 576Army divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Army personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579, 580, 586Arrests (see also Law enforcement) . . . . . . 353, 354,

355, 357Arsenic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355, 386

Arteriography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208, 213Arteriosclerosis, deaths . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 141, 143Arthritis and rheumatism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Arts and humanities:

Aid to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446, 448Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640Federal aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Grants, foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Volunteer work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447Aruba. See Foreign countries.Asbestos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368, 408, 1170, 1173, 1175Aseptic meningitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Asia. See Foreign countries.Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . 12, 18, 19,

20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 34, 52, 57, 1004, 1102Births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 100Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48College enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Congress, members of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Crime (arrests) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . 260, 261, 328Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Hospital visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 77Immunization of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Projections . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 37, 38Property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Asian Indian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Asian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 1004, 1102Asparagus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1135Asphalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1191Asset-backed securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 829Assets, personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767, 768, 769, 798Assault . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 346, 347, 348Associations, national, nonprofit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 206Atherosclerosis, deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 141Athletic associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Athletic goods. See Sporting and athletic goods.Athletes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Atomic energy defense activities, expenditures . 568Audio-video equipment (household), manufacturing

industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461Auditing. See Accounting, auditing, and

bookkeeping.Australia. See Foreign countries.Austria. See Foreign countries.Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672ATM’s (automated teller machines) . 805, 825, 1277Automobile loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821, 820Automobile rentals and leasing. See Automotive

repair, services, and parking.Automobiles (see also Motor vehicles):

Cost of ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052Expenditure per new car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

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Automobiles (see also Motor vehicles): —Con.Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030, 1032Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030, 1032, 1234, 1282

Automotive dealers and service stations:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279

Automotive products. See Motor vehicles, tires andtubes, etc.

Automotive repair, services, and parking:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . 675, 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Aviation communication, private radio stations . . 922Avocados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1136Azerbaijan. See Foreign countries.

BBackpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787Badminton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Bahamas, The. See Foreign countries.Bahrain. See Foreign countries.Bakeries, retail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1294Bakery products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Balance of payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1303Balance sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545, 862, 863Ballet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Bananas . . . . . . . . . . 248, 773, 787, 1119, 1121, 1122Bangladesh. See Foreign countries.Bankruptcies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880, 881Banks, commercial:

ATM’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805Checking accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805Consumer credit finance rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820Credit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806, 822Debit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824Delinquency rates, repossessions, loans . . . 821Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806, 811, 809Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686, 687, 793Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 803, 804, 806Family debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Federal Reserve Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804Finances . . . 794, 795, 796, 803, 806, 807, 808,

809, 810, 811, 814, 816, 826, 843Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 796, 843Foreign banking offices in United States . . . . 809Foreign lending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792Home equity loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806, 817, 818Individual Retirement Accounts, 401(k) plans . . .

845, 846Insured banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807, 808Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Stock and bond prices and yields . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Barbados. See Foreign countries.

Barber shops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1296, 1297, 1298Barite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173Barium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Barley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1128Bars. See Eating and drinking places.Base, military closings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 436, 438, 441, 442Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 436, 438, 441, 442Batteries, auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035Bauxite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173Strategic and critical materials

inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1115, 1135Beauty shops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1296, 1297

Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Beef (see also Meat and meat products):

Consumer expenditures . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1122, 1137, 1361

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121, 1122, 1137Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

Beer. See Malt beverages.Belarus. See Foreign countries.Belgium. See Foreign countries.Belize. See Foreign countries.Benin. See Foreign countries.Bermuda. See Foreign countries.Beryllium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Beverages industry:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1400Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1400Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245, 1400Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1400Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Beverages (see also Alcoholic beverages):Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945, 946Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249, 1245Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245Whiskey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 1245Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 1245

Bhutan. See Foreign countries.Bicycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343, 438, 443, 1474Billiards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Biological sciences:

Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322, 1004Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 673

Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Birth and birth rates . 4, 20, 28, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99,

100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,109, 110, 115, 116, 117

American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleutpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 93

Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . . 20, 93

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Birth and birth rates —Con.Births to mothers who smoked . . . . . . . . 121, 122Births to single or unmarried women . . . 93, 101,

108, 110, 1347Births to teenage mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95, 106Birth weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 103, 104Black population . . . . . . . 20, 93, 94, 96, 104, 108Breastfed babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Cesarean section deliveries . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 208Characteristics of mother . 94, 105, 108, 109, 110Delivery procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Educational attainment of mother . . . . . . . . . . . 121First births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107, 108, 109Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345, 1347Hispanic population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 93, 96Low birthweight by smoking status . . . . . . . . . 121Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Prenatal care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 104Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 20, 98Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 94, 96, 99, 101, 110, 116Unintended births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Birth control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Birth weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 103, 104Bismuth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Black lung benefit program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621Black population . 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25,

34, 57, 110Abortions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124, 125Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Age and/or sex . . . . . . 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25,

51, 149AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 226Birth and birth rates . . . 93, 94, 96, 99, 100, 104,

108, 110Births to teenage mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Births to unmarried women . . . . . . . . 101, 110

Business owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 141, 142, 239Child care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634Children under 18 years old . 14, 15, 16, 22, 23,

24, 25, 51, 85Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757, 759, 762

Cigarette smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Cohabitation experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Congress, members of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Contraceptive use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Crime (arrests) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349, 354Criminal victimizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Deaths and death rates . 131, 132, 134, 137, 140,

141, 142, 144, 147, 149Dentists, visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Disability days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Disabled persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15, 16, 51, 759, 760Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469, 477, 479Elections, voter registrations and turnout . . . 483Families, characteristics . . 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82Farm operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102Fertility, fertility rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 98, 110Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 177, 181High school graduates and dropouts . . . . . . . 298Home health and hospice care . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Homicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149, 341Hospital use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207, 210

Black population —Con.Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214, 1218, 1222Households, characteristics . 73, 75, 77, 80, 81,

82Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Immunization of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Income . 604, 738, 739, 740, 745, 746, 747, 748,

752Infant deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134, 137Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Jail inmates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 646, 648

Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696Employed . 646, 666, 662, 663, 664, 672, 674,

675Employment status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Educational attainment . . . . . . . . 648, 681High school graduates and dropouts,

employment status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299School enrollment, persons 15 to 21

years old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677, 681

Persons working at home . . . . . . . . . 662, 663Life expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 129, 130Living arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 64Mammography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 61Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Medical services usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700Nursing home residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Overweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242, 243Pension plan coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616Physical activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Physicians, visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 195Poverty . . 51, 756, 757, 759, 762, 764, 765, 766Prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377Projections . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 37, 38Property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226Recreation activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444, 446, 447Remarriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161School dropouts, high school . . . . . . . . . . 297, 299Schools and education:

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Advanced placement exams . . . . . . . . . . . . 293American College Testing Program . . . . . 291Attainment . . . . 260, 261, 262, 298, 322, 328Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

College enrollment . . 303, 305, 307, 320Preprimary enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Higher education institutions:Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . 303, 305, 307, 320

High school dropouts . . . . . . . . . 296, 297, 299High school graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299Scholastic Assessment Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 290Sports participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273, 289, 672

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 142, 147, 149Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Voter registration and turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

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Blast furnace and basic steel products. See Ironand steel products.

Blind persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625Medicaid payments and recipients . . . . . . . . . . 178

Blue collar workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 698Bluefish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Board and care homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Boating, canoeing, etc. . . . . . . . . 437, 439, 442, 1473

Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018Bolivia. See Foreign countries.Bolts, nuts, etc. See Iron and steel products.Bombers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Bonds:

Foreign, U. S. purchases and sales of . . . . . . 834Holdings by sector . . . . . . . . . . 795, 796, 797, 832Life insurance companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832, 854New issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835Prices, yields, sales, and issues . 548, 828, 831,

833, 834, 841Rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511, 512U.S. savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548, 798, 1092

Bookkeeping. See Accounting, auditing andbookkeeping.

Books (see also Printing and publishing, andLibraries):

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425, 428, 429, 913, 1234

Boots. See Footwear.Boron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Bosnia and Herzegovina. See Foreign countries.Botswana. See Foreign countries.Botulism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Bowling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437, 438, 442Bowling center industry receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Boy Scouts, membership and units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449Brazil. See Foreign countries.Bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787Breastfeeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118British Virgin Islands. See Foreign countries.Broadcasting stations. See Radio and television

broadcasting.Broadway and off-Broadway shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Broadwoven fabric mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1402, 1403Broccoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1135Broilers (see also Poultry) . . 1111, 1112, 1137, 1144,

1146Bromine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Bronchitis, emphysema, etc., deaths . 138, 139, 140,

141, 142, 143, 1348Brunei. See Foreign countries.Buddhist population. See Religion.Budget, Federal:

Outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537, 538, 540, 541, 543Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537, 539Revenue losses (tax expenditures) . . . . . . . . . 544Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Building contractors, general:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1190, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1190, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190, 1337Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190

Building materials, and garden supplies, retailstores:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1337Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1291

Building permits. See Construction industry, andHousing and housing units.

Buildings (see also Construction industry, andHousing and housing units):

Construction value . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193, 1194, 1195Correctional facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376Energy consumption and expenditures . . . . . 958Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Fires and property loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385Floorspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958, 1228, 1229Office vacancy rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227, 1230Principal activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958, 1228, 1229

Bulgaria. See Foreign countries.Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343, 349,

354, 355Burkina. Faso. See Foreign countries.Burma. See Foreign countries.Burundi. See Foreign countries.Buses and bus transportation (see also

Passenger transit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016Bus profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032Passenger traffic and outlays . . . . . . . 1013, 1016Production and sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056

Business enterprise (see also individual types ofbusiness and industry):

Bankruptcies filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880, 881Black owned businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876Business starts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877, 878Capital, fixed by industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 891Corporations:

Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641Profits and sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858, 898

Corporations, partnerships, andproprietorships . . . . . . . 856, 857, 858, 859, 860

Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895Divestitures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Economic indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866, 867, 868, 877, 909Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865, 867, 1294Expenditures, research and development . . 910,

980Failures and starts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871, 878, 879Finances . . . 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 862, 897,

904, 905, 906, 907, 908Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794Foreign investment in the U.S . . . . . . 1307, 1308,

1309, 1310, 1311Incorporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878Lagging indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Leading indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Leveraged buy-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Loans to minority-operated small

businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884, 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . 908, 909, 910New product introductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889

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Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886, 887, 888, 1376Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866, 867, 868Profits . . . . . . 897, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904,

905, 906, 910Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . . . 900, 901, 906,

1237, 1238, 1239Small business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874, 882Venture capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883Women owned businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875

Business management, degrees conferred . . . . 322,324, 325, 326

Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Business services:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1337Employees . . . 675, 676, 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248, 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913, 1296, 1297, 1298

Butter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1143Butterfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161

C

Cabbage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1135Cable and other pay television services . . 285, 773,

915, 927, 928Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913, 929Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 916

Cadmium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1173, 1175Cafeterias. See Eating and drinking places.Calcium available for consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Calcium chloride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169California. See State data.Calisthenics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Calves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1137, 1138, 1139Cambodia. See Foreign countries.Cambodian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Cameroon. See Foreign countries.Campaigns, fund raising . . . . . . . 488, 489, 490, 491,

492, 493, 494, 495Campers (trucks and trailers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037Camping, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423, 438, 442, 443Canada. See Foreign countries.Cancer (malignancies) . . . . 138, 140, 142, 143, 146,

155, 206, 215, 239Deaths . . . . . 139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146,

1348Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348

Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Cantaloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1135Capacity utilization, index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242Cape Verde. See Foreign countries.Capital (see individual industries):

Age of stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376, 1224Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806, 807

Capital (see individual industries): —Con.Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . 892, 1232, 1397-1400,1412-1419, 1421, 1422, 1424, 1425, 1427-1456,

1458, 1459, 1451-1463, 1465-1487New security issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 891, 1237Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919, 980, 985

Capital equipment, producer price indexes . . . . . 778Capital punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382, 383Carbon dioxide (natural), production and

value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Cardiac catherization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208, 213Cardiovascular disease. See Heart disease.Cargo tonnage. See Tonnage vessels.Carpal tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Carpets and rugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253, 1404Carrots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1135Cars, price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Cassettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Casualties, military conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Casualty insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850Catalog and mail order houses:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1279, 1287

Catalytic converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409Catfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162Catholic population. See Religion.CAT scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Cats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Cattle:

Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121Number on farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138, 1139Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138, 1139Slaughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139Value on farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138

Cauliflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1135Cayman Islands. See Foreign countries.CD-ROM’s in schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Celery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1135Cellular telephones. See Telephone communication.Cement (see also Stone, clay, and glass

products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1203Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377

Central African Republic. See Foreign countries.Central America. See Foreign countries.Central and South American population (Hispanic

origin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 93Cereal and bakery products:

Expenditures, prices . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736,773, 1116

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234

Cereal consumption, breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Cerebrovascular diseases, deaths . . . 138, 139, 140,

141, 142, 143, 206Certificates of deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798, 827

Cesarean section deliveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 208

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Cesium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170CFC (Chloroflurocarbon) gasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Chad. See Foreign countries.Chambers of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Charitable contributions (see also Philanthropy) . 640,

641Checking accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798, 805Cheese (see also Dairy products) . . 247, 787, 1122,

1143Chemical products . . . 1324, 1416-1425, 1430, 1432

Domestic production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . 404, 405, 406

Chemicals and allied products, manufacturing (seealso individual chemicals):

Capital . . . 1422, 1424, 1425, 1427, 1428, 1429,1430, 1431, 1432, 1433

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1337, 1406-1433Employees . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1337, 1406-1433Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Foreign trade . . . . 1244, 1326, 1406-1430, 1433Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1375Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901, 904, 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . 997, 998Shipments . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1240, 1406-1433Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Chemistry (see also Physical sciences):Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Nobel prize laureates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Cherries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1136Chicken pox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Chickens. See Poultry.Child abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373, 374Child care . . . . . . 634, 635, 673, 703, 704, 773, 1296

Expenditures for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732Child day care services:

Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301, 1296, 1297

Child support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604, 632, 633Children (see also Population and Vital statistics):

Acute conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Age and/or sex . . . . . . . 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25Aid, social welfare programs . . . . . . . . . . 601, 605,

607,625

Aid to Families With Dependent Children,recipients and payments . . 607, 625, 627, 628

AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 226Alcohol use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Bronchitis, emphysema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Crime, arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347, 353Child abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373, 374Child day care . . 634, 635, 703, 704, 773, 1296Child support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604, 632, 633Chronic conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Children (see also Population and Vital statistics):—Con.

Congenital abnormalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Cost of raising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732Days lost from school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Deaths and death rates . . . . 132, 134, 135, 136,

137, 140, 141, 144, 149Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Disability status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Divorce, involved in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Drug use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Families with . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Food stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607Foreign born population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Foster care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636Fractures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Head start program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 177, 181High school dropouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297Hispanic origin population . . 21, 22, 23, 25, 228Hospital use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205, 206, 207, 210Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Immunization against diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Income, families with children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Juvenile delinquency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371Labor force (16 to 19 years old):

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657, 658, 664, 666Employment status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700Participation rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 647, 677Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Medicaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607Mobility status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Mothers in the labor force, by age of children . . .

654, 657Music purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430Physician visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 195Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757, 759Presence of parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 85Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 24, 25, 36Respiratory infection, acute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206School enrollment . . . . . 250, 252, 255, 256, 257,

258, 259, 272Preprimary school enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . 266Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 255Special programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Social Security beneficiaries and payments . 610Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 149Surgery, ambulatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Chile. See Foreign countries.China. See Foreign countries.Chiropractors’ offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297Chloroflurocarbon gasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Chocolate. See Cocoa and Confectionery products.Cholelithiasis, deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Cholesterol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244China. See Foreign countries.Chinese population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Christian population. See Religion.Christmas trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

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Chromite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377Chromium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1174, 1175Churches:

Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Construction value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194, 1195Grants, foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Number and membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 1342Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Circuit boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466Cigarettes (see also Tobacco products):

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246Sales and shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Smokers and use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 238

Circulation of newspapers and periodicals . . . . . 915,933, 934, 935

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Cirrhosis of liver, deaths . . . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348Cities:

Climate . . . . . . . . . . . 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336, 338Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524Employees, earnings, payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536Foreign travelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456Finances of city governments . . . . 524, 525, 526Governmental units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 498Office vacancy rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230Officials elected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477, 479Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 48Property tax rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Taxes paid, by family income level . . . . . . . . . . 520

Citrus fruits:Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 249, 1122, 1133Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122, 1133Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133, 1136

Civil aviation. See Air transportation.Civil cases, U.S. District Courts . . . . . . . . . . . 367, 368Civil service employees. See Government.Clams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163, 1164Clocks and watches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Clay construction products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254Clergymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Climate, selected cities . . . 416, 417, 418, 419, 420,

421Precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418, 419, 420Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414, 416, 417, 421

Clothing. See Apparel goods.Coal (see also Petroleum and coal products and

Coal mining):Car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 949, 950, 952

Electric utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 974Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953, 954Foreign trade . . . . . . . . 949, 963, 964, 1186, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778, 959, 980, 1171, 1186Production . . . . . . . . . . . 942, 948, 949, 1168, 1186

World production . . . 1173, 1187, 1377, 1379Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188, 1189

Coal mining industry:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167, 1186Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186

Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Coal mining industry: —Con.Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 952, 1166, 1168, 1169Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1186Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

Coast Guard personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584Coastal population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174, 1175Cocaine (see also Drugs (illegal)), arrests and

use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 357, 358Cocoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1119, 1121, 1324Cod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Coffee:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 249Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119, 1121, 1324Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341

Cogeneration of electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981Cohabitation experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65Coke. See Coal.Coke, car loadings and freight carried . . . . . . . . . 1064College tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Colleges and universities. See Education, higher

education institutions.Colombia. See Foreign countries.Colorado. See State data.Columbium-tantalum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1173, 1175Commerce:

Domestic, by rail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064Domestic, by water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090, 1091Foreign. See Foreign trade.

Commerce and housing credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538, 543Commercial buildings:

Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190Construction value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194, 1195Cost of construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192Crime incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348Energy characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228Floor space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195, 1228, 1229Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228, 1229Vacancy rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227, 1230

Commercial paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830Commodities. See individual types of commodities.Commodity flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017Communicable diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Communications, degrees conferred . 324, 325, 326Communications equipment, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1462, 1463Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1462, 1463Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1462, 1463Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Foreign Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1462, 1463Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1462, 1463Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Communications industry (see also Telephone,Television and Radio):

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835, 892Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 691, 724, 912, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 912, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911

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Communications industry (see also Telephone,Television and Radio): —Con.

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 857, 903Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . . . 856, 857, 913

Community development, federal outlays . . . . . . . 543Comoros. See Foreign countries.Compact disks (CD-ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931, 1268Computer (see also Computer and office

equipment):Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 944, 945, 946Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264, 1287Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930, 1287Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281, 283, 1223

Computer programming and data processingservices:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912, 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 912, 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Computer and office equipment, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912, 1233, 1456Employees . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 912, 1233, 1456Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898Shipments . . . . . . . 898, 1233, 1234, 1265, 1266,

1267, 1456Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Computer specialists:Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326, 1003,

1004Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Computer use . . . . . . . . 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 444Computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) . . . . 208Concerts, symphony orchestras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Condensed and evaporated milk . . . . . . . . . 247, 1143Condom usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Condominiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198, 1208Confectionery products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945, 946Congenital anomalies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Congo (Brazzaville). See Foreign countries.Congo (Kinshasa). See Foreign countriesCongestion on road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

See AFL-CIO.Congress, U.S.:

Asian, Pacific Islander members . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Bills, acts, resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470, 471Black members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Campaign finances . . . . . . . . . 488, 489, 494, 495Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466, 467Congressional districts, candidates, votes

cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464Hispanic members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Members, characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Representatives, vote cast . . . . . . . 464, 465, 486Senators, vote cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463Seniority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Congress, U.S.: —Con.Time in session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470Women members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Connecticut. See State data.Construction industry (see also Building materials

and Highways):Building authorized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197Building permits, value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Construction contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195, 1196Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192Earnings . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 867, 869, 1190,

1337, 1339Employees . . . . . . . 662, 675, 676, 679, 685, 686,

687, 867, 869, 874, 990, 1190, 1337, 1339Establishments . 867, 869, 874, 1190, 1337, 1339Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859, 864, 865, 1334Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . 716, 720, 1334Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 708Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 857, 865, 898, 903Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197, 1198, 1199, 1200Shipments, receipts . . 856, 857, 869, 898, 1190,

1339Unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190, 1193, 1194

Construction machinery, manufacturing:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1261Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Construction materials. See Building materials.Consumer:

Consumer complaints against airlines . . . . . 1078Consumer goods, producer prices . . . . . . . . . . 778Credit . . . . . . . 795, 796, 797, 800, 801, 820, 824

Delinquency rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266, 1268Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 736, 737

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 736, 737, 1116Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 736, 737Medical care . . . . . . 165, 166, 169, 170, 180,

734, 735, 736, 737Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737Reading material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426, 429Sporting goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . 771, 772, 773, 774By commodity group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776, 1358Medical care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179, 772, 773Purchasing power of the dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771Year-to-year changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Consumption. See individual commodities.Contraception use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Convenience stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825, 1283Cookies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Cooking oils consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Cook Islands. See Foreign countries.Cooperatives, farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108Copper:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170

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Copper: —Con.Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377Copyrights registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924Corn:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1129Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 248Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Foreign trade . . . . 1123, 1124, 1128, 1324, 1384Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1129Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1128, 1129, 1135

World production . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1380, 1383Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Coronary procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Corporate business sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861, 862

Political action committees . . . . . . . 490, 491, 492Corporations:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863Dividend payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902Finances . . . 794, 795, 843, 855, 856, 857, 858,

859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 901Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897Nonfinancial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861, 862Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641Profits . . . . . . 856, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902,

903, 904, 905, 1243Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 865Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 899, 900, 901, 1243Stocks and bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828, 829Taxes:

Corporate income tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902Returns . . . . . . . 855, 856, 857, 863, 864, 865State tax collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Correctional institutions (see also Prisons andprisoners):

Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376Prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376, 377, 378

Cosmetics, perfume, etc.:Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 944, 945, 946Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324

Costa Rica. See Foreign countries.Cost-of-living indexes. See Consumer price indexes,

and Prices.Costume jewelry and notions, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1487Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1487Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1487Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Cote d’Ivoire. See Foreign countries.Cotton:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1129Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1114Foreign trade . . . . 1119, 1123, 1124, 1128, 1248,

1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1128, 1129Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1123, 1128, 1129

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1341Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

County governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 497, 498Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477, 479, 480

County governments —Con.Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527, 528, 529

Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365, 366, 367, 368Appeals courts, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366District courts, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367, 368, 369Juvenile court cases handled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371Public officials, prosecutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370Sentencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369Supreme Court, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Cows (see also Dairy products) . . . . . . . . . 1142, 1143Crabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163, 1164Cranberries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Credit cards . . . . 821, 820, 822, 800, 801, 823, 1284Credit markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795, 820Credit unions:

Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803, 812Family debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 803, 812, 820, 843Home equity lending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818Individual Retirement Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845

Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Crime (see also Criminal victimization and Law

enforcement):Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 355Average value lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Burglary . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343, 349, 355Child abuse and neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373, 374Contact with police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360Drug abuse violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357, 369Hate crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344, 345Homicides, race and sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149, 341Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351Larceny-theft . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343, 355Motor vehicle theft . 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 343,

349, 355Murder, murder circumstances . . 335, 336, 337,

338, 339, 355Place and time of occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Police officers assaulted, killed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364Property crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338Rape, forcible . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 342, 355Robbery . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343, 355Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Violent crime . 149, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 355

Criminal victimization . . . . . . 346, 347, 348, 349, 350Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Place of occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349, 350Weapons involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346, 348, 349

Croaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Croatia. See Foreign countries.Crops (see also Farms and individual crops):

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126, 1127, 1128Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . 1110, 1111, 1114Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124, 1128Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1128Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1127, 1128Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Cross country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 441Crude materials:

Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777, 778Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967, 1341

Crude oil (see also Petroleum and products):Foreign trade . . . . 949, 964, 965, 966, 967, 1177Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950, 1176, 1177

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181

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Cuba. See Foreign countries.Cuban population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 55

Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Cucumbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1122, 1135Cultural associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Currency:

Foreign exchange rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395Personal saving component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

Customs outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Duties and percent of value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325

Customs regions, imports and exports . . . . . . . . 1320Cyclones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Cyprus. See Foreign countries.Czech Republic. See Foreign countries.

DDairy products (see also individual products):

Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 734, 735, 736Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 249, 1122Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . 1111, 1122, 1143Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121, 1122, 1324Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1143

Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446, 447Dart throwing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Data processing services. See Computer

programming and data processing services.Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Day care. See Child day care services.Deaf persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Death penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382, 383Deaths and death rates (see also Accidents and

fatalities):Age and sex . . . . . 130, 131, 132, 140, 145, 146,

149, 152, 153, 154, 155AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 144Alcohol-induced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Black population . 4, 134, 140, 142, 144, 147, 149Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 140, 142, 143, 146, 155

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348Cause . 136, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,

145, 146, 147, 148, 1018, 1063Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348

Drug-induced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Fetal and neonatal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134, 135Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149, 152Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344, 1365Homicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Heart disease . 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 155Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 706Infant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106, 134, 135, 136, 137Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Maternal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 20Race . 4, 130, 131, 132, 134, 137, 140, 142, 145,

147, 149, 152, 153, 154Suicide . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 149, 150,

1348Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 92Weather related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412Work time lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Debit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824

Debt (see also Loans and mortgages):City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801, 821, 820County governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108, 1113Federal government . . . . . . . . 499, 537, 547, 554Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394Households . . . . . . . 795, 796, 799, 800, 801, 802Local governments . . . . 499, 500, 505, 506, 509,

510, 519State and local government . . . . . . . . . . . 506, 510

Highways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027State government . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 510, 516, 514

Defense, Department of (see also Army, Navy, andAir Force):

Budget authority, outlays . . . . 538, 541, 543, 567Contract awards, by states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Employees, civilian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573, 580Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567, 568, 569, 573

Health and medical care . . . . . 164, 165, 167Funds available and outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Military bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Military personnel . 580, 582, 585, 586, 587, 588Military retirees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580Property, real and personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Degrees conferred (see also individual field) . . . 323,324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 1003, 1004

Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Dehumidifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Delaware. See state data.Deliquency. See Juveniles.Denmark. See Foreign countries.Dentists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189, 191, 672

Charges and expenditures for . . . 165, 166, 170,179

Dental schools, students, and graduates . . . 192,327

Medicaid payments, recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1298Visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Department stores:Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Sales . . . . . 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1286, 1291

Deposits. See banks.Dermatologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Detective and protective services . 1296, 1297, 1298Diabetes . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 231Diagnostic health procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1377

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377

Diatomite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Dietitians and therapists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Diphtheria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Direct mail advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . 943Disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222, 233, 234, 235

Bed-disability days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610Benefits paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 602, 609, 610Days lost from work, school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Employed persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670Medicaid payments and or recipients . . 178, 622Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 609

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Disability —Con.Personal assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Persons with work disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763Public assistance recipients and/or

payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622, 625School enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Social Security recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610, 611Supplemental Security Income recipients and

payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625Types of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233, 234Veterans receiving compensation . . . . . 594, 596Vocational rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Disability Insurance Trust Fund (SocialSecurity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540, 609

Disability status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Disasters (tornadoes, floods, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Discount rates, Federal Reserve Bank of

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827Diseases (see also specific diseases and Deaths

and death rates) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206, 224, 231, 239Deaths from . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,

145, 146Dishwashers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265, 1266, 1268Disposable personal income (see also Income and

National income) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722, 728District Courts, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367, 368, 369

Criminal cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367District of Columbia. See state ditures . . . . . . . . . . 884Dividends:

Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902Individual income tax returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555National and/or personal income

components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Railroad stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063

Divorce. See Marriage and divorce and Maritalstatus.

Djibouti. See Foreign countries.Doctors, M.D.’s. See Physicians.Dogs:

Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Domestic service:Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274

Dominica. See Foreign countries.Dominican Republic. See Foreign countries.Dow-Jones stock indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 837Drinking places. See Eating and drinking

places.Drivers licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Driving while intoxicated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355

Fatal accidents, by age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043Drug-induced deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Drug stores and proprietary stores:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279

Drugs (illegal):Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355, 357, 352Court cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369Drug abuse treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236, 533Enforcement activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352, 1310Juveniles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371, 372

Drugs (illegal): —Con.Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 357Workplace testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Drugs and medicines:Accidental poisonings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944, 947Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Drug abuse treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Expenditures for . . . . . . . 165, 166, 167, 170, 180Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Medicaid payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Drugs and medicines industry, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1427Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1427Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1427Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Drunk driving, arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355Dryers, clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Dutiable imports and duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325Dwellings. See Housing and housing units and

Households or families.

EEarnings:

Agriculture, forestry, fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070College faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314College graduates, starting salaries . . . . . . . . 321Construction industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867, 1190Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Employment covered by social insurance . . 608,

618, 620Family type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Finance, insurance, real estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Government employees:

Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531, 560, 563State and local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531, 534

Income tax returns (reported totals) . . . 552, 553,554, 555

Industry . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 693, 867, 1400-1419, 1415-1442, 1438-1456, 1452-1487

Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695Mineral industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699, 700Mining industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867, 1165Municipal employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696, 697Personal income . . . . . . . 724, 726, 727, 728, 729Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Private employer firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867School teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268, 273, 275, 289Seamen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694Telephone systems, employees . . . . . . . 918, 919Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Union members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Wholesale trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867, 1293

Earth sciences, degrees conferred . . . . . . . 322, 1004

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Earth sciences, degrees conferred —Con.Eating and drinking places:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Employees . . 676, 687, 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1285

E coli 0157:H7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Economic assistance, foreign . . . . . . . . . . . 1314, 1316Economic growth rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718, 1357Economic indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894, 895, 1356

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1357, 1356Economists, labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Ecuador. See Foreign countries.Education:

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Advanced placement exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293American College Testing (ACT) Program . . 291Associations, nonprofit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Attainment . . . . . 50, 51, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleutpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 54

Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . 52,260, 261

Black population . . . . 51, 260, 261, 262, 297,298, 322

Cigarette smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 57Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351General Education Development certificates

(GED’s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300Hispanic origin population . 51, 55, 260, 261,

262, 297, 307Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740, 748, 765Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916, 917Labor force status . . . . . . . . . . . . 648, 658, 681Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674Outlying area of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763, 765Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 52, 298Recreation activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264, 265Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261, 262

Catholic schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281, 283, 285Continuing education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352Crime incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348, 350Days lost from school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Degrees conferred . . . . 322, 323, 324, 325, 326,

327, 328, 1003Nonresident aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Dental schools, students, graduates . . . . . . . . 192Employment, state and local government . . . 535Employment status of high school graduates

and dropouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299Enrollment . . 250, 252, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259,

266, 268, 270, 271, 272, 302, 306, 307Catholic schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . 1332, 1333Preprimary schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258, 266Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 252, 255Special programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271, 307

Education: —Con.Expenditure (see also Finances):

Assistance for persons with limitedincome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526County government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529Local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519Private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602State and local government . . . . . . . 254, 506,

514, 516Federal aid . . 253, 254, 309, 310, 498, 538, 989Federal assistance to families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Foreign language enrollment . . . . . . . . . . 294, 317General Education Development (GED’s) . . 300Grants to institutions from foundations . . . . . . 643Handicapped students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Higher education institutions:

Beginning salary offers, collegegraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Charges for room and board . . . . . . . . . . . . 312Degrees conferred . 252, 323, 324, 325, 326,

327, 328, 1003, 1004Non-resident aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Enrollment . . . 250, 252, 255, 258, 259, 302,303, 304, 306, 307

College freshmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318Foreign languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317Foreign students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303, 304Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 252, 255Sports participation . . . . . . . 435, 440, 441States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307, 311U.S. service schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Expenditures . . . . . . . 251, 254, 306, 309, 313Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Scientific purposes, by type . . . . . . . . . 994

Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306, 314, 315, 316Finances . . . . . . 251, 252, 254, 306, 309, 311Financial aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309, 310Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330, 331Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306, 307Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Remedial courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Special programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286Tuition and fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312Voluntary financial support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

High school dropouts . . 264, 265, 297, 298, 299Loans and grants, federal government . . . . . 310Medical schools, students, graduates . . . . . . . 192National Assessment of Educational Progress

Tests (NAEP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292Nursing programs, students, graduates . . . . . 192Optometry schools, students, graduates . . . . 192Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332, 1333Pharmacy schools, students, graduates . . . . 192Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640, 641, 643Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Private schools:

Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281, 283Crimes reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Elementary and secondary . . 250, 251, 254,

255, 258, 269, 288Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251, 254Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Public elementary schools:Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281, 283

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Education: —Con.Crimes reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Enrollment . . . 250, 252, 255, 258, 268, 271,

272Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 255, 269Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Special programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . 251, 252, 254, 279, 280High school graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Special education programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 268, 273, 275, 277

Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Scholastic Assessment Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290School districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497School-loss days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220School years completed. See Education

attainment.Special education programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287State data:

Elementary and secondary . . 271, 275, 280,295

Higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307, 311Teachers:

Catholic schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288Elementary and secondary . . . 268, 269, 275Employment projections . . . . . . 252, 269, 673Higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306, 314Newly hired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Test:Advanced placement exams . . . . . . . . . . . . 293American College Testing (ACT)

Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291National Assessment of Educational Progress

(NAEP) Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292Scholastic Assessment Tests (SAT) . . . . . 290

Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Educational expense indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Educational services:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . . . 687, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . 1294, 1296, 1297, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294, 1296

Eggs (see also Poultry):Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1145Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787, 1144Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1144, 1145

Egypt. See Foreign countries.Elderly (see also Population):

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Age and/or sex . 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,

50AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Anatomical, mobility device usage . . . . . . . . . . 232

Elderly (see also Population): —Con.Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355Arthritis and rheumatism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768, 798Black population . . . . . 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 50, 51Book purchasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 141, 142, 146, 206Cerebrovascular disease . . . . . . . . . 141, 142, 206Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639Children under 18 years old living with elderly

parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Chronic conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Cigarette smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Deaths and death rates . . . . . . . . . . 141, 142, 145Dentists, visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Disability days, status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220, 234Education, attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 262Eldercare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533Elections, voter registration and turnout . . . . 483Food stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607Foreign-born population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Health care expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180, 181Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 177, 181Hearing device usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Hearing impaired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Heart disease . . . . . . . . . . 140, 142, 145, 206, 231Height distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Hispanic origin population . . . . 21, 22, 23, 25, 55Home health and hospice care . . . . . . . . 215, 216Homeownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215, 1218, 1222Homes for the aged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Hospital use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205, 206, 207, 210Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68, 72, 73, 76, 87Housing debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220Illness/injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 647, 652, 677

Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Employed . . . . . . . . . . 657, 658, 664, 666, 667Participation rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 652Reason not in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671Tenure with employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Living arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 60Mammography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 62Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Medicaid payments and recipients . . . . 175, 176,

177, 178, 607Medicare program . . . . . . . . . . 171, 172, 173, 174Mobility status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Motor vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032, 1033Nursing homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211, 218Nutrition program for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605, 630Overweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242, 243Persons living alone (one-person

households) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 88Physical activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Physician visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 195Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 141, 142, 206Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 759, 760Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 24, 25, 36Property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226Public assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607Recreation activities . . . 426, 438, 439, 443, 444,

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Elderly (see also Population): —Con.Social Security beneficiaries, payments . . . . 610States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Stock ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 142Surgery, ambulatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213TV viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Vision device usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Volunteer work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Voter registration and turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Weight distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Elections:American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Asian, Pacific Islander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Black elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477, 479Campaign finances . . . 488, 489, 490, 492, 493,

494, 495Congressional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463, 464, 465Gubernatorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473, 474Hispanic origin officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477, 480Political action committees (PAC) . 490, 491, 492Political party identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485Presidential . . . . . . . 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 492State legislatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475, 476Voter registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 483, 484, 485, 486Voter turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 483, 484, 486Votes cast . . . 460, 461, 463, 464, 465, 482, 484Voting-age population . . . . . . . . . . . . 483, 484, 486Women in public office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477, 478

Electric, gas, and sanitary services:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 828Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Electric light and power industry (see also Electric,gas, and sanitary services, and Electricity):

Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Construction costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192, 1194Customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979, 986Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400, 401Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980General capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 972General capacity, installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Ownership, class of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971Peak load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972

Electricity (see also Electric light and powerindustry):

Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 972, 981Commercial buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958, 1228Consumption . . . . . 955, 956, 958, 971, 973, 979Expenditures . . . . . 734, 735, 953, 954, 955, 956Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977Hydroelectric power . . . . . . . . . 948, 952, 971, 982Nonutility producers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981Nuclear . . . . . 935, 948, 952, 971, 975, 976, 977Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 780, 782Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 974, 981

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956, 979, 1183Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970, 973, 979

Electronic and other electrical equipment,manufacturing:

Capital . . . . 890, 1458, 1459, 1461, 1462, 1463,1465, 1466, 1467

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912, 1233, 1452-1467Employees . . . 676, 687, 912, 1233, 1234, 1458,

1459, 1460, 1452-1467Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901, 903Foreign trade . . . 1326, 1458, 1459, 1461, 1462,

1463, 1464, 1465, 1466, 1467Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 911Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 904, 905Research and development . . . . . 997, 998, 1000Shipments . 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240, 1451-1467Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1238

Electronic components and accessories,manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465, 1466, 1467Earnings . . . . . . . . 1233, 1464, 1465, 1466, 1467Employees . . . . . . 1233, 1464, 1465, 1466, 1467Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1464, 1465, 1466, 1467Shipments . 898, 1233, 1234, 1464, 1465, 1466,

1467Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Electronic funds transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825Electronic goods:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 945, 946, 947Sales, shipments, receipts . . . 1266, 1268, 1269

El Salvador. See Foreign countries.Emergency medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Emphysema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 142, 206, 1348Employee benefits . 182, 183, 184, 185, 702, 703, 704

Government employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 533Employees . 561, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650,651, 653, 654, 657, 660, 666, 668, 672, 673, 674,675, 676, 681, 870, 1093, 1190, 1247, 1269, 1297,1308, 1337, 1339, 1397-1419, 1421-1456, 1458-1487Employment agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298Encephalitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Endangered species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411Endoscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Energy (see also Electric light and power industry

and various fuel types):Air pollutant emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Assistance for persons with limited income . 605Commercial buildings . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956, 1228Consumption . . . . 948, 950, 951, 952, 955, 956,

961, 984Characteristic of household . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956End-use sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951, 952Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961, 1379Renewable sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948

Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409End-use sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951, 952, 953, 957Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . 953, 954, 955, 956, 958

Commercial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956Type of structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956

Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Price indexes:

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Energy (see also Electric light and power industryand various fuel types): —Con.

Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773, 774, 1378Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778, 779

Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788, 959, 960Solar collectors, manufacturer’s shipments . 983

Engineering and architectural services:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1296Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1296Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1296Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298

Engineers and scientists (see also individual fields):Degrees conferred . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 1003,

1004Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 1000, 1001Research and development . . . . . . . . . . 994, 1000Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263Entertainment (see also Amusement and recreation

services), personal expenditures . . 426, 723, 733,734, 735, 773

Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Environmental industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408Environmental Protection Agency:

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559Waste treatment facilities, Federal aid tostate

and local governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505Equatorial Guinea. See Foreign countriesEritrea. See Foreign countries.Eskimo population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Establishments (see also individual industries) . 803,

806, 812, 813, 870, 874, 1232, 1276, 1277,1279, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1339

Estate and gift taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 539, 551Estonia. See Foreign countries.Ethane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182Ethiopia. See Foreign countries.Europe. See Foreign countries.European Economic Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355Evaporated and condensed milk . . . . . . . . . 247, 1143Excise taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539, 550, 551Executions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382, 383Executive Office of the President (federal) . 559, 560Exercise equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425, 442, 443Expectation of life (average lifetime) . 127, 128, 129,

130Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Expenditures. See individual subjects.Expenditures of state and local government. See

individual governmental units.Expenditures of U.S. Government . . . 499, 500, 501,502, 503, 504, 505, 540, 543, 1024, 1313, 1314, 1315

Aid to the arts and humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Aid to outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331Aid to state and local government . 503, 504, 505

By function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504Highway trust fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505, 1024

Atomic energy defense activities . . . . . . . . . . . . 568Budget outlays . . . . . . . . . 537, 538, 540, 541, 543By function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543By source of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 539Capital outlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 501, 502Contract awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572, 573

Expenditures of U.S. Government —Con.Education. See federal aid to education.Food programs, federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 605Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Land and buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Military personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571, 587, 590National defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567, 568, 569Outlays, by function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Payments for public assistance . . 599, 601, 605,

619Payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531, 560, 562, 563, 564Public debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 537Public roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505, 1024Research and development . 988, 989, 990, 991,

992, 993Rivers, harbors, and flood control . . . . . . . . . 1089Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253, 254Science/space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006Social welfare programs . . . . 599, 600, 601, 603Space programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005, 1008, 1009Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Veterans benefits. See Veterans affairs.Vocational rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Exports. See Foreign trade.Express mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940, 941, 942Eye care price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Eyeglasses and contact lenses . . . . . . 165, 166, 170

FFabricated metal products industry, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312, 1444Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1444Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1444Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256, 1326, 1444Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238, 1240, 1444Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Fabrics. See Textile mill products.Families. See Households.Fan clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Farm and garden machinery, manufacturing (see

also Agricultural implements, etc.):Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446, 1447Earnings . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1446, 1447Employees . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1446, 1447Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446, 1447Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1446, 1447Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Farm mortgage loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591, 814, 816Farmers and farmworkers:

Bankruptcies filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Indexes of farm inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Farms:Acreage . . . . 1100, 1101, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1117

Cropland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117, 1126Crops harvested (see also individual

crops) . . . . . . 1126, 1127, 1128, 1129, 1135

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Farms: —Con.Agrichemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1117Agricultural products:

Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318Foreign countries, production . . . 1382, 1383Prices. See Prices received by farmers.Railroad car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Waterborne commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091World production . . . 1341, 1380, 1382, 1383

Assets and liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 1108, 1113Capital stocks, farm housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224Construction value, farm nonresidential . . . 1194Corporate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103Crops (see also individual crops):

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126, 1128Fruits and nuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1114Production . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1123, 1126, 1128

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341, 1382, 1383Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135

Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108, 1113Mortgages outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816

Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Farm products sold, marketing receipts . . . 1103,

1109, 1110, 1111, 1112, 1114Government payments to farmers . . 1109, 1110,

1114Gross farm product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1109Housing, rental value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109, 1110Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109, 1110, 1111, 1113, 1114Individual or family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103Input indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117Inventories, change in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Labor expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110, 1115Labor inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117Machinery and motor vehicles . 1108, 1110, 1117,

1234, 1446Mortgage loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816National income, origin in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Number of farms . 1100, 1101, 1103, 1104, 1105Operator characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102Parity ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103Prices:

Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1128Livestock and products . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1138

Real estate, input indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109, 1115, 1117Tenure of operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1102Value:

Farm land and buildings . 1103, 1106, 1107,1108

Farm products sold, marketing receipts . 1103,1109, 1110, 1111, 1114

Faroe Islands. See Foreign countries.Fatalities. See Accidents and fatalities.Fat, nutrient for consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244, 246Fats. See Lard, Margarine, and Oils.Federal agency debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829Federal aid to education . . . 253, 504, 505, 506, 601

Elementary and secondary education . . . . . . 253,254, 601

Higher education institutions . 253, 254, 306, 309,601

Research and development . . . . . . 990, 995, 996Science and engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994, 995

Federal aid to state and local government . . . . . 503,504, 505, 506

Federal banks. See banks.Federal budget. See Expenditures of U.S.

Government.Federal debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547Federal employees retirement trust fund. See

government.Federal funds, summary distribution by state . . . 549Federal government. See government.Federal Government finances. See Receipts and

Expenditures of U.S. Government.Federal Housing Administration, mortgage loans . . . .

816, 819Federal National Mortgage Association loans . . . 816Federal real property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Federated states of Micronesia. See Foreign

countries.Feed. See Grain.Feldspar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173Female householder. See Households or families.Female population. See Women.Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Fertility rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 98Fertilizers:

Farm expenditures for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234, 1256

Fetal deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134, 135Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253Fiji. See Foreign countries.Filberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Field hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 441Filipino population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Filling stations. See Gasoline service stations.Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731, 794, 795, 796, 797

Consumer installment credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820Corporate funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861

Finance, insurance, and real estate industry:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835, 892Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . . . . . . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 869, 1337Employees . 662, 675, 676, 685, 686, 687, 793,

867, 868, 869, 874, 990, 1337Establishments . . 793, 867, 868, 869, 874, 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . 794, 796, 803, 820, 856, 857, 859,

864, 865, 1334Foreign investments in U.S . . . . . . . . . 1307, 1308Gross domestic product . . . 716, 720, 792, 1334Health insurance coverage employees . 183, 184Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 865, 898, 903Sales or receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857, 869, 898Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Finished consumer goods, producer priceindexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Finland. See Foreign countries.Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 149, 442, 443, 1075

Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 149Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Fire departments. See Public safety.Fire insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850Fires and property loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384, 385, 386

Accidental deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 386

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Firms. See Business enterprise, and individual typesof business and industry.

New firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871Fish (see also individual species):

Aquaculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1162Canning and preserving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164Catch, quantity and value . . . . 1159, 1160, 1161,

1381Consumer expenditures . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1122Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122, 1159, 1326Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 1160Production and value, processed products . 1162,

1164Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159

Fishing, commercial:Catch, quantity, value . . 1159, 1160, 1161, 1381Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1382Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159, 1164

Fishing and hunting . . . . . . . . 423, 433, 434, 438, 442Floods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412, 413Florida. See state data.Florists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Flounder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Flour, consumption (see also Grain) . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432, 1132Flu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 142Fluid power equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273Fluorspar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173Food (see also individual commodities and industry

data below):Car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065Commercial vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Consumption . . . 244, 247, 248, 249, 1122, 1361Expenditures . . . . . . . 733, 736, 1116, 1285, 1360

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360Fish products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736Food costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775, 786, 787Prices (see also individual commodities) . . . 772,

773, 780, 782, 786, 787World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1380, 1382

Food and kindred products, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . 405, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1400Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1337, 1397, 1398, 1399,

1400Employees . 676, 687, 1233, 1337, 1397, 1398,

1399, 1400Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Foreign trade . . . . 1326, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1400Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901, 904, 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998Sales or shipments . . . . . 898, 1233, 1238, 1240,

1397, 1398, 1399, 1400Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Food stamps . . . . 601, 605, 606, 607, 624, 630, 631Food stores:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Employees . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277, 1288, 1337Establishments . . 1276, 1277, 1283, 1288, 1337

Food stores: —Con.Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . 1277, 1279, 1280, 1283, 1285, 1288, 1291

Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 436, 441Footwear . . . . . 442, 733, 734, 735, 773, 1251, 1324Footwear, except leather, manufacturing . . . . . . 1233

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1438Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1438Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1438Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1438Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1438Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Foreign aid to developing countries . . . . 1313, 1315,1316, 1393

Foreign born population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 56, 57Foreign companies, U.S. affiliates . 1308, 1309, 1310,

1311Foreign countries:

Agricultural trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125Aid to developing countries . . 1313, 1314, 1315,

1316, 1393Air pollution emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343Armed Forces personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396Arms exports and imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575, 576Balance of payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389Beverages, personal consumption

expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360Births and birth rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345, 1347Coal production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186, 1187College students enrolled in U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . 304Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Consumer price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776, 1358Crude oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964, 965, 966Death and death rates . . . . . . . 1345, 1348, 1362Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394Economic indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1356, 1357Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351, 1352Employment and labor force . 1356, 1366, 1367,

1368, 1369, 1370Energy production, consumption, and

prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961, 962, 1378, 1379Exchange rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391Export and imports . . . . . . . . . . . 1321, 1384, 1390Fish catches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381Food:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360

Foreign students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353Government finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364, 1365Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355, 1357Gross national product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1354Health care expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349Immigration to U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9, 11International transactions, balances . 1303, 1304Investment in U.S . 834, 1305, 1307, 1308, 1309,

1310, 1311Labor force participation rates . . . . . . 1366, 1369Loans, by U.S. commercial banks . . . . . . . . . . 810Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372

Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373, 1374Marriage and divorce rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1346Merchant vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099Military expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574, 1395Military personnel, U.S. on active duty . . . . . . 582

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Foreign countries: —Con.Military sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578Motor vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362Municipal waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350Natural gas production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185Nobel prize laureates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012Nonimmigrants from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Nuclear power generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977Nuclear waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1376Personal consumption expenditures, food and

beverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360Petroleum production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343, 1344Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787, 1358, 1359Production:

Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371Meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1382Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1379

Refugees admitted to U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Research and development expenditures . . . 993Reserve assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389Sales and assistance by U.S.

government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577, 578Securities, purchases and sales . . . . . . 833, 834,

1385, 1386, 1387Space launches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348Taxes (revenue) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364, 1365Territory ceded to United States . . . . . . . . . . . . 388Trade with United States . . . . . 1124, 1304, 1323Travelers and expenditures . . 7, 454, 455, 1392U.S. investment abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312Visitors from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Vital statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345, 1346, 1347

Foreign currency holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796Foreign exchange rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391Foreign grants and credits, U.S. government . . 1313Foreign investments in United States . . . . 834, 1307,

1308, 1309, 1311Foreign languages:

Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326Persons speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Students enrolled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294, 317

Foreign military sales trust fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535Foreign sales and assistance by U.S.

government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313, 1315, 1316Economic assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316Military sales and assistance . . . . . . . . . 577, 1315

Foreign students, college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304, 1353Foreign trade (see also Foreign aid, Foreign

countries, and individual commodities) . 1318, 1319,1320, 1321, 1323, 1325, 1326

Agricultural products . . . 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122,1124, 1125, 1133, 1134, 1318

Aircraft and aircraft parts . . . . . 1081, 1087, 1324Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036, 1324Balance of trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964, 1186Companies exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323, 1390Crude oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964, 966, 967, 1176Customs and districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320Fish products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159Free and dutiable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325

Foreign trade (see also Foreign aid, Foreigncountries, and individual commodities) —Con.

Indexes, unit value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321Industry . 1397-1419, 1421-1430, 1433-1456, 1458,

1459, 1461-1487International transactions balances, U.S . . 1302,

1303, 1304, 1317Manufactures exports, U.S. compared to

world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1244Mineral imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1304Timber products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153U.S. affiliates of foreign companies . . . . . . . . 1308World summary, external trade . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341

Forest products (see also individual products):Car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1158Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1153Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778, 779, 1155Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017

Forests:Land, acreage, and ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148, 1149

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148Forgery and counterfeiting (arrests) . . . . . . . 354, 355Foster care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636Foundations, philanthropic . . . . . . 481, 641, 642, 643401(k) plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617, 846France. See Foreign countries.Franchised establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281Fraternal associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Fraternities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Freeways and expressways condition . . . . . . . . . 1021Freezers, home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Freight traffic. See Air transportation, Canals,

Railroads, Rivers, and Waterways.French Guiana. See Foreign countries.French Polynesia. See Foreign countries.Fruits:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244, 248, 1122, 1133Consumer expenditures . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736Farm marketings and sales . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Foreign trade . . . . . 1119, 1122, 1124, 1133, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787, 790, 1115Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133, 1136, 1380

Fuel (see also individual types, and energy):Commercial building use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958, 1228Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Consumption:

Airplanes, aviation, certificated routecarriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080

Motor vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971

Electricity generated by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 974Prices . 772, 773, 778, 779, 782, 785, 789, 790,

791, 954, 960, 1115Retail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785, 1378

Production and value . . . . 948, 1168, 1169, 1173Residential use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Funeral service and crematories . 1296, 1297, 1298Furniture . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 773, 780, 782, 1324Furniture and fixtures, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415, 1416, 1417Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1415, 1416, 1417

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Furniture and fixtures, manufacturing: —Con.Employees . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1234, 1415,

1416, 1417Energy chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1415, 1416, 1417Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Shipments . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1415, 1416, 1417Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Furniture and homefurnishing stores:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1280

Futures price indexes, selected commodities . . . 783

GGabon. See Foreign countries.Gadsden Purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388Gallbladder disorders, deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Gallium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Gambia, The. See Foreign countries.Gambling, arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355Gang activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Garages. See Gasoline service stations and

Automobile repair, services, and parking.Garden activities and equipment . . . . . . . . . 432, 1447Garden supplies. See Building materials and garden

supplies.Garlic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Garnet (abrasive) production and value . 1168, 1169Garnet (industrial) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Gas (see also Petroleum, and Gas utility industry):

Liquefied petroleum gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182Natural . . . . . . . . . . . 1068, 1167, 1168, 1169, 1184

Consumption . 948, 950, 952, 955, 956, 1184Energy expenditures . . . . 953, 954, 955, 956Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 949, 963, 964, 1326Offshore lease revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 1171, 1378Production and value . . 948, 950, 962, 1168,

1169, 1178, 1184Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . 1377, 1379Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166

Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 956World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185

Natural gas plant liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 782

Gas and electric utilities. See Electric, gas, andsanitary services.

Gas production and distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687Gas utility industry (see also Electric, gas, and

sanitary services):Accidents and deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986, 987Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985, 1068Mains, mileage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985, 986, 987Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986, 987

Gasoline (see also motor fuel):Blending components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177Excise taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 791, 1025Finished motor gasoline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791, 1378Price indexes, fixed-weighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Gasoline service stations, retail:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Point-of-sale terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1286, 1291

Gastroenterology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Gaza Strip. See Foreign countries.Gem stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170General merchandise stores:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1276, 1277, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1337Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1286, 1291

Geography and cartography. See Land.Georgia, former Soviet Republic. See Foreign

countries.Georgia, state of. See state data.Geothermal energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 984Germanium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Germany. See Foreign countries.Germany DAX-30 stock market index . . . . . . . . . 1388Ghana. See Foreign countries.Gibraltar. See Foreign countries.Gift, novelty, and souvenir shops . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Gift and estate taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500, 517, 551Glass containers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253Gold:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167, 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171Production and value . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377Reserve assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306

Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 437, 438, 441, 442, 443Golf courses, industry receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Gonorrhea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Government (see also Expenditures of U.S.

government, and receipts, U.S. government,and individual governmental units):

Capital stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770Construction value of buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534, 687, 691Employees . . . . . . . 561, 676, 685, 686, 687, 990

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 533City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536Federal, civilian . . . . 363, 530, 559, 560, 563

Accessions and separations . . . 564, 565Pay increases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Local government . 362, 530, 531, 535, 534Retirement systems . . . . 601, 603, 604, 612,

613, 614State government . . 362, 530, 531, 535, 534States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535, 534, 562, 686

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Government (see also Expenditures of U.S.government, and receipts, U.S. government,and individual governmental units): —Con.

Employment cost index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698Expenditures:

Capital outlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501, 502City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524, 526County government . . . . . . . . . . 527, 528, 529Federal . . . . . . 500, 501, 502, 537, 539, 540,

541, 543, 544Aid to state and local government . . 503,

504, 505, 534, 1024Capital outlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501, 502Public assistance programs . . . . . . . . . 605Local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500, 519

State and local government . . . . . . . 499, 500,501, 502, 506, 507, 508

State government . . . . . . 499, 500, 501, 502,513, 514, 516, 517

Federally owned land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389, 566Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 796, 797Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . 507, 508, 720Highways . 1020, 1022, 1023, 1024, 1025, 1027Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Insurance. See Social insurance.Land. See Public lands.Local government:

Cities:Employees, earnings, payroll . . . . . . . 536Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524, 525, 526

County finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527, 528, 529Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534Employees . . . . . . . . . 362, 530, 531, 534, 535Number, by type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 497Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531, 535Population, by size-group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Number of units, by type of government . 496, 497Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705Payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531Purchases of goods and services . 507, 715, 718Salaries and wages (see also Income,

and individual industries):Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549, 563National income component . . 507, 508, 691State and local government employees . 534

Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509, 827, 828, 834State and local governments . 514, 530, 531, 533,

534, 535Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 533Bond ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511, 512Employees . . . . . . . . . 376, 530, 531, 534, 535Federal aid . . . . . . . . . . . . 503, 504, 505, 1024Finances . . . . . 499, 500, 501, 502, 505, 506,

507, 508, 510Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531, 534

State government . . . . . . . . . . . 513, 515, 516, 517Strategic and critical materials, summary . . 1128

Government National Mortgage Associationloans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816

Governors, number and vote cast . . . . . . . . . 473, 474Graduates:

College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323, 325, 326, 327High school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295, 298, 299

Grain (see also individual classes):Car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244, 247Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

Grain (see also individual classes): —Con.Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119, 1121, 1124Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1380

Grandchildren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Grants, by foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Grapefruit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1136Grapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1122, 1136Graphite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Grazing:

National forests, livestock, and receipts . . . 1149Public lands, leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Great Britain. See Foreign countries.Great Lakes:

Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

Greece. See Foreign countries.Greek letter societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Greenhouse and nursery crops . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1132Greenhouse gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Greenland. See Foreign countries.Grenada. See Foreign countries.Grocery stores:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1279, 1283Point-of-sale terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1283, 1291Services, products offered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284

Gross domestic product:Components, annual growth rates . . . . 507, 508,

715, 717, 718, 911Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355, 1357Implicit price deflators for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715Per capita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722Relation to national and personal income . . . 721State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719, 720

Gross national product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1354National defense outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Gross private domestic investment . . . . . . . 715, 718,781, 782, 881, 893

Ground water used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Group health insurance plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Guadeloupe. See Foreign countries.Guam. See Outlying areas of U.S.Guamanian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Guatemala. See Foreign countries.Guernsey. See Foreign countries.Guinea. See Foreign countries.Guinea-Bissau. See Foreign countries.Guns. See Firearms.Guyana. See Foreign countries.Gymnastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Gynecological procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Gypsum and gypsum products . . . 1168, 1169, 1170,

1173, 1175, 1191, 1442

HHaddock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Haemophilius influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Haiti. See Foreign countries.Hake, pacific whiting, imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Halibut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Hallucinogenic drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Ham price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Ham prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

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Handguns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075Handicapped. See Disability:Hawaii. See state data.Hawaiian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 93Hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1118, 1128Hazardous wastes:

Superfund sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410, 1018Waste management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408, 410

Hazelnuts (filberts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Head start program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637Health and Human Services, Department of . . . . 989Health and medical associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Health clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Health insurance (see also Health services,

Insurance carriers, Medicaid, and Medicare):Coverage . . . . . . . . 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186,

187Private establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

Enrollment and payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174, 175Expenditures for . 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 180,

182Premiums and expenses . . . . . . . . . 168, 182, 849Premiums and policy reserves, life insurance

companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854Health insurance industry, employees . . . . . . . . . . 189Health Maintenance Organizations . . 182, 183, 185,

187Health sciences, degrees conferred . . . . . . 192, 324,

325, 326, 327Health services:

Buildings and floorspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640Coverage . . . . . . . . 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176,

177, 181, 596Employment benefits . . 182, 183, 184, 185, 533,

703, 704Federal outlays for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 167, 504Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349Government employment and payrolls . . . . . . 531Hospitals . . . 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206,

1297, 1298, 1301Industry:

Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . 189, 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188, 1301Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Sales or receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Medicaid . 175, 176, 177, 178, 181, 504, 601, 605Medicare . 164, 167, 171, 172, 173, 174, 601, 609Mental health facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Nursing homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165, 166, 170, 211Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . 190, 191, 193, 672, 673Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170, 641Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179, 773, 782Private expenditures . . 164, 165, 166, 168, 169,

170, 180, 602, 733Public expenditures . . . 164, 165, 166, 167, 168,

169, 170, 599, 601Federal government . . . . . . . . . . 164, 167, 504

Aid to state and local governments . 504State and local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Health services: —Con.City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526County government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529State government . . . . . . . . 513, 514, 516

Veterans health care . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 167, 597Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Hearing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Hearing impaired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218, 231, 670Heart disease . . 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 206,

215, 231Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348

Heat pumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211Heating and plumbing equipment . 983, 1200, 1211,

1225, 1233Heating oil prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959Heights, average, by age and sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Helium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Hepatitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Hernia and intestinal obstruction . 138, 139, 208, 213Heroin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 357, 358Herring, sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Hides and skins (see also Leather and leather

products), foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124, 1324Highways:

Accidents and deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047Construction costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192

Value of new construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194Debt, state and local government . . . . . . . . . 1027Employees, government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531, 535Expenditures:

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526County government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529Local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519State and local government . 500, 501, 502,

505State government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514, 516U.S. government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024

Aid to state and local governments . 504Highway trust fund . . . . . . . . . . . 505, 1024

Federal-aid systems . . . . . . . . . . 1019, 1020, 1024Highway trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Mileage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019, 1020, 1047Motor fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053, 1338Motor fuel tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 1025, 1338Pavement condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021Price trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026Type and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019, 1020Types of roads traveled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047

Hiking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Hindu population. See Religion.Hispanic origin population . . . 12, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23,

25, 30, 34, 57, 161Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Age and/or sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 55AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 226Births and birth rates . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 93, 96, 108Child care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634Children under 18 years old . 22, 23, 25, 84, 85Cohabitation experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65College enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Congress, members of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Criminal victimization rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 347, 349Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . 262, 322, 328, 1004Dentists, visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Disability days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

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Hispanic origin population —Con.Disability status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Disabled persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Educational attainment . 55, 260, 261, 262, 298,

322, 1004Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 759, 760Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469, 477, 480Elections, voter registration and turnout . . . . 483Families, characteristics . . . . . . 55, 78, 79, 80, 81Farm operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 177, 181High school dropouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296, 297, 298Household or family characteristics . . . . . 55, 67,

75, 77Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 1214, 1218, 1222Immunization of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Income:

Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745, 746, 748Household . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738, 739, 740, 743Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737, 738

Jail inmates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Labor force and employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696Employed . . . . . 55, 646, 662, 663, 664, 666,

672, 675By industry, occupation . . . . . . . . 672, 675Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Persons working at home . . . . . . . . . 662, 663Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 646, 677Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Living arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 64Mammography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Medical services usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Nursing home residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Pension plan coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616Physical activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Poverty . . 55, 177, 756, 757, 759, 760, 764, 765Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 20, 23, 25, 38Remarriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161School enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . 257, 298, 303, 320

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Advanced placement exams . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Preprimary school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266Sports participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 38Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273, 289Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Voter registration and turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

HIV infection (see also AIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141, 143Hmong population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Hobby, avocational associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 436, 441Hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112, 1137, 1138, 1140Home-based businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662Home economics, degrees conferred . . . . . 322, 324,

325, 326Home equity loans/lines of credit . . . . 801, 800, 806,

817, 818, 821, 1219, 1220Home furnishings. See Appliances.Home health care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214, 215, 216, 673Home health care services:

Home health care services: —Con.Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1301

Homes. See Housing and housing units.Homicides . . . . . . 138, 139, 141, 143, 147, 151, 335,

336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341Honduras. See Foreign countries.Hong Kong. See Foreign countries.Hong Kong Hong Seng stock marker index . . . 1388Horses:

Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Riding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Horses and mules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Hospices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214, 215Hospitals:

Average daily room charge . . . . . . . . . . . . 203, 204Beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 201Charges and personal expenditure for . . . . . 165,

166, 167, 169, 170, 173, 178Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194, 1195Cost to hospital per patient . . . . . . . . . . . . 203, 204Diagnostic procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Discharges from . . . . . . . . . . . . 205, 206, 207, 225Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1300Employees . 189, 200, 535, 675, 676, 687, 1297,

1296, 1300Establishments . . . . 200, 201, 1296, 1297, 1300Finances . . . . . . . . . . . 188, 200, 1286, 1296, 1301Grants, foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Insurance:

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Medicare program . . . . . . . . . . . . 171, 172, 173

Mental hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 202, 219National expenditures . 164, 165, 166, 169, 170Outpatient visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 201, 202, 210Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 201Public expenditures . . . . 164, 165, 166, 169, 170

City governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524County governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529State governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298, 1300States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201, 204Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Organ transplants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Use, admissions, and patient days . . . 200, 201,

202, 205, 206Veterans, expenditures and patients . . . . . . . . 219

Hotels and other lodging places:Buildings and floorspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228, 1229Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1299Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907New construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194Occupancy rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Receipts . . . . . . . . . . 452, 1285, 1286, 1296, 1298Travel summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299

House of Representatives . . . . . . 464, 465, 466, 467,468, 469, 470, 472

Household workers. See Domestic service.

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Households or families (see also Housing andhousing units and income) . . . . 60, 68, 69, 70, 71,

73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 83, 797Age of householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 73, 74, 740American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut

population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 75Asian and Pacific Islander population . 52, 54, 75Assets . . . . . . . 769, 794, 796, 797, 798, 832, 843Automobiles, ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Balance sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769Black population . . . . . 51, 73, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80,81, 738, 739, 740, 743, 745, 746, 747, 748, 765Book purchasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Characteristics . . . 71, 72, 73, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83Children under 18 years . . . . . 71, 78, 79, 80, 81,

82, 83, 84, 85, 732, 748Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Consumer expenditures . 733, 734, 735, 736, 737Criminal victimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Debt . . . . . . . 769, 796, 799, 800, 801, 802, 1220Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740, 765Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740Employment of parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656Female householder . . . . . 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,

76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88Finances, financial services . . . . . 794, 795, 796,

797, 798, 801, 832, 843Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 796, 797Hispanic origin population . . . 55, 67, 73, 75, 77,

78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 765Income . . . . . 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744,

745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 751Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 916Interracial married couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Living arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 60, 85Marital status of householder . . . . . . . . 68, 72, 88Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Mobility status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Motor vehicles available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038Net worth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767, 769Persons in households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 71Persons living alone (one-person

households) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 69, 71, 73, 87, 88Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 764

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleutpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 54

Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . . 52Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764, 765Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . 764, 765

Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 74, 75Public assistance to families . . . . . . . . . . . 605, 606Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 52, 748Region of householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 76, 748Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69, 72, 73, 80States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Stock ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842Taxes paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739Telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915Types:

Male householder . . . . 68, 70, 71, 77, 83, 84Married couples with or without own

household . 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 80,81, 83

Non-family . . . . . . . 69, 70, 71, 72, 77, 87, 88One-person households . . . . . 69, 70, 71, 72,

73, 87, 88Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767, 768

Housekeeping supplies expenditures . . . . . . 733, 734Housing and household operations, price

indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 780, 782Housing and housing units (see also Households or

families):Age of housing stocks . . . . . . . . 1211, 1215, 1216Amenities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222Appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Building permit value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224Condominiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198, 1215, 1224Construction:

Apartments completed and rented . . . . . 1207Cost indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192New units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197, 1198, 1199Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193, 1194, 1195

Consumer expenditures . 733, 734, 735, 736, 737Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212, 1218Deficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215, 1218, 1222Energy:

Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951, 952, 955Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . 953, 954, 955, 956

Fires and property loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385Floorspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200Government expenditures . . 500, 506, 514, 526,

543Heating equipment used . 1200, 1211, 1221, 1215Kitchen equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211Loans and mortgages . 814, 816, 815, 819, 1200,

1201, 1219Federal Housing Administration (FHA) . 1200,

1201, 1219Veterans Administration (VA) . . . . 598, 1200,

1201, 1219Lot size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213Maintenance and repair expenditures . 733, 734,

735, 1225Metro areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212Mobile homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203, 1211, 1224New privately owned homes,

characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200Ownership (see tenure)Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215Prices, or costs . 1192, 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205,

1217, 1218Public housing, low rent units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Federal aid to state and localgovernments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504, 505

Government expenditures . . . . 599, 601, 605Recent home buyers, characteristics . . . . . . 1208Rent, rental value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217, 1218Rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 1204, 1206Square footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1216Structural type . . . . . . . . . 1198, 1210, 1211, 1225Tenure . . 32, 51, 55, 57, 740, 1209, 1211, 1212,

1214, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1219, 1222Vacancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209, 1210Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769, 1217Year built . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956, 1215, 1210

Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of:Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

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Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of: —Con.Federal aid to state and local

governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504, 505Housing assistance . . . . . . . . 599, 601, 605, 606, 607Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (see

also AIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141, 143Humidifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Hungary. See Foreign countries.Hunting and fishing . . . . . . . . 423, 433, 434, 439, 442Hurricanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412, 413Hydroelectric power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982, 984

Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 982Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 952, 984Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 971

Hypertension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Hysterectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

IIce cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 787, 1143Ice hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 439Ice skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Iceland. See Foreign countries.Idaho. See state data.Illegal immigration. See Immigrants.Illinois. See state data.Illness (see also Deaths by cause, Disability, and

Diseases) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221, 229, 231Bed-disability days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Days lost from work, school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Employee protection against income loss . . 621,

624Private expenditures for income

maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602, 624Restricted activity days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 8, 9, 11By area of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11By class of admission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6By country of birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9, 11Nonimmigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 9Undocumented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Immunization of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Imports.See Foreign trade.Income (see also Poverty and Consumer

expenditures, and Earnings):Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Aggregate income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut population . . 52,

54Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . 52, 739Black population . . 51, 604, 745, 746, 747, 748,

753, 764Corporate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865Disposable personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722, 724, 728Distribution . . . . . . . 738, 740, 745, 747, 748, 752Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956Families . . . 50, 51, 55, 604, 745, 746, 747, 748,

749, 750, 751, 1295Appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Labor force participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749Outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333Type of family . 745, 746, 747, 748, 750, 751

Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109, 1113, 1114Hispanic origin population . . . 55, 604, 738, 739,

740, 743, 755Household . . 726, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743,

753

Income (see also Poverty and Consumerexpenditures, and Earnings): —Con.

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut

population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Black population . . . . . . . . 738, 739, 740, 743Book purchasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740Hispanic origin population . . . 738, 739, 740,

743Mobility status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Recreation activities, physical activity . . 245,

438, 443State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741, 742Tenure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Loss from short-term sickness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621National income . . . . . . . 715, 717, 718, 721, 722

By type of income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721Originating in farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Per capita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722, 755Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 724, 726, 727Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 753, 752, 755, 760

Below poverty level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760, 766Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Poverty . . . . . . . . 52, 57, 756, 759, 760, 762, 766Savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725, 731Sports participation, goods . . . . . . . . . . . . 438, 443

Income security outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Income tax (see also Tax receipts):

Average tax by income level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 550, 551, 863State collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Index numbers. See individual subjects.India. See Foreign countries.Indiana. See state data.Indian, American population. See American Indian,

Eskimo, Aleut population.Indian, Asian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Indium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798, 1170Individual retirement accounts (IRA’s) . . . . . . . . . . 845Indonesia. See Foreign countries.Industrial and commercial enterprises, failures . 866,

878Industrial machinery and equipment:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1444, 1440-1457Earnings . . . . 687, 912, 1233, 1337, 1444, 1440-

1457Employees . 687, 912, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1444,

1440-1457Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1337Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1444, 1440-1457Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . 716, 911, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1375Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 904, 905Research and development . . . . . 997, 998, 1000Shipments . 898, 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240, 1444,

1440-1457Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

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Industrial minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Industrial production indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371Industry. See Corporations and individual industries.Infant deaths (see also Deaths and death rates) . 92,

134, 135, 136, 137Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Outlying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328

Infertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Inflation. See Prices, consumer, and Consumer

price indexes.Infrastructure expenditures. See government.Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 142Inhalants, persons using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Injuries (see also Accidents and Occupational

safety) . 155, 206, 215, 221, 229, 1018, 1063, 1158Associated with consumer products . . . . . . . . 222Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 706, 707, 708Work time lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Inmates (see also Correctional institutions) . 375, 377Inorganic materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252Installment loans (see also Loans and mortgages) . .

800, 801, 821, 820Institutional care facilities (see also Hospitals and

Nursing and related care facilities) . . . . . . . 202, 211Institutional population:

Mentally ill, retarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377, 378

Institutions. See Hospitals and other individualfacilities.

Institutions of higher education. See Education.Instruments and related products, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1471-1484Earnings . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1471-1484Employees . 676, 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1471-

1484Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1471-1484Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . 997, 998Shipments . 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240, 1270, 1471-

1484Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Insurance. See individual forms of insurance.Insurance agents, brokers, and service:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 944, 945, 946Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 804, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832, 849, 850Foreign investments in the U.S . . . . . 1310, 1311Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 792Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Insurance carriers:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793, 1337

Insurance carriers: —Con.Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 846, 850Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850

Insurance, government. See Social insurance.Insurance, medical care . . . 164, 169, 170, 179, 849Interactive digital media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913Inter-American Development Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313Intercity traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016, 1056, 1062Intercourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111, 112Interest:

Payments, federal government . . . . . . . . 538, 543Receipts, by source:

Individual income tax returns . . . . . . 552, 555National and personal income component . . .

724Interest rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

Mortgages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815, 827Intermediate goods, price indexes, producer . . . 778Internal revenue collections (see also Tax receipts) .

551Internal waterways, traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090International affairs:

Balance of trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318Commerce . . . . . . 1318, 1319, 1320, 1323, 1336Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Foreign exchange rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391Foreign investments in U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307International transactions, U.S . 1302, 1303, 1304,

1306Receipts and payments for transportation . 1088U.S. government aid . . . 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316U.S. investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1312

International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313

International Development Association . . . . . . . . 1313International Finance Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313International investment position, U.S . . 1302, 1305,

1312International mail (U.S. postal) . . . . . . . . . . . . 941, 942Internet use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282, 333, 914, 916, 917Interracial married couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Intracity transportation price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Inventories (see also Stocks, commodity) . . . . 1237,

1238, 1239, 1240, 1280, 1281, 1292Business (GDP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Investments (see also Capital stock and Securities):Foreign, in U.S . 1302, 1305, 1307, 1309, 1310,

1311Private domestic, gross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715, 725U.S. government obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806U.S. international . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1305, 1312Venture capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883

Iowa. See state data.Iran. See Foreign countries.Iraq. See Foreign countries.Ireland (Eire). See Foreign countries.Iron (see also Steel):

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175, 1204, 1324Mining industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1201Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1204

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

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Iron (nutritional), available for humanconsumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Iron and steel, manufacturing (see also Metalindustries, primary):

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256, 1443Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234Employees . . 676, 687, 1233, 1234, 1256, 1443Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1256, 1443Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Iron and steel products . . . . . 1173, 1186, 1257, 1258Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169

Iron and steel scrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Iron and steel slag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Irrigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Islamic population. See Religion.Isle of Man. See Foreign countries.Israel. See Foreign countries.Italy. See Foreign countries.

JJails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375, 379Jamaica. See Foreign countries.Japan. See Foreign countries.Japanese population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430, 446Jersey. See Foreign countries.Jewelry, silverware, and plated ware,

manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1485Jewelry sales, stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1279Jewish population. See Religion.Job Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Jogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438, 442, 443Jordan. See Foreign countries.Judicial service (Federal):

Employees and payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Juices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Juveniles:

Arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353, 355Court cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

KKansas. See state data.Kazakstan. See Foreign countries.Kentucky. See state data.Kenya. See Foreign countries.Keogh plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554, 798Kidney disease and infections, deaths . . . . 138, 139Kiribati. See Foreign countries.Korea. See Foreign countries.Korean population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Kuwait. See Foreign countries.Kyrgyzstan. See Foreign countries.

LLaboratories, medical and dental . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Labor force, employment, and earnings (see also

individual industries or occupations):Accidents and fatalities . . . . . 705, 706, 707, 708,

709, 710Work time lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Average pay, States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694Metro areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Labor force, employment, and earnings (see alsoindividual industries or occupations): —Con.

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536Civilian labor force:

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut population . .

52Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . . 52Black population . . . . 51, 645, 646, 648, 651,

672, 681Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . 648, 669, 681Educational attainment . . . . . . . 648, 674, 681Employed . 644, 646, 649, 650, 651, 654, 656,

658, 659, 662, 663, 664, 665,666, 668, 673, 674, 675, 676

Female . 646, 647, 648, 649, 651, 652, 653,654, 655, 665, 681

Age of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654Children in preprimary schools . . . . . . 267Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652, 653, 654Multiple job holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Foreign-born population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57High school graduates, dropouts . . . . . . . 299Hispanic origin population . . . . 55, 645, 646,

672, 675Flexible work schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700Multiple job holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666Not at work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660Part-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668Participation rates . . . . . . 645, 646, 648, 649,

652, 653, 654, 655Selected countries . . . . . . . . . . 1366, 1369Wives, by age of youngest child . . . . 655

Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 673, 676Race . 51, 52, 645, 646, 648, 651, 672, 681Reason not in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671School enrollment, persons 16 to 24 years

old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651Self-employed workers . . . . . . . . . . . . 661, 662States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Unemployed . 644, 646, 649, 650, 651, 654,

677, 678, 679, 680, 681, 682, 683Women who gave birth in previous year . 108,

109Disabled persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622, 670Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Earnings . 685, 688, 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696,

697Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . 262, 648, 681Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 645, 647, 652, 657, 677Employee benefits . 182, 183, 184, 185, 615, 702,

703, 704Government employees . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 533

Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685, 686, 687States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Employment cost index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698Employment projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673, 676Employment taxes and contributions . . . . . . . 539Female . 646, 647, 648, 649, 651, 652, 653, 654,

655, 662, 663, 672, 674, 675, 678, 679,681, 682, 696, 697

Foreign countries . 1366, 1367, 1368, 1369, 1370Foreign-owned firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311Government. See government.Help wanted advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

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Labor force, employment, and earnings (see alsoindividual industries or occupations): —Con.

High school graduates and dropouts . . . . . . . 299Hispanic origin population . 55, 645, 646, 675, 677Home-based businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Indexes of compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689Job openings and placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684Media users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650, 695Minimum wage workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699, 700Occupational groups. See Occupations and

individual occupations.Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . 705, 706, 707, 708Persons working at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662, 663Production workers . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1232, 1233Productivity . . . . . . . . 688, 689, 1373, 1374, 1375Self-employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661, 662Social insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 608, 624State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649, 683, 686, 694Temporary help agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665Tenure with employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667Unemployed workers (see also Unemployment):

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651, 677Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . . 52Black population . . . . 51, 646, 651, 677, 681Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . 262, 681Foreign-born population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1366, 1367High school graduates and dropouts . . . 299Hispanic origin population . . . . . 55, 645, 677Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 646, 651, 677, 681Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678, 682Sex . . . . . 646, 649, 651, 654, 677, 678, 679,

681, 682States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649, 683

Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712, 713Workdays lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Work arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665Work stoppages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711Youth employment programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Labor organizations or unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Employee benefit costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712, 713Political action committees (PAC) . 490, 491, 492Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Labor strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711Lacrosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Lamb and mutton (see also Meat and meat

products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1137Lambs. See Sheep and lambs.Land (see also Farms and Public lands):

Area:Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Coastal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343National parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422Outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387, 1329United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 387

Farmland . . . 390, 1100, 1101, 1103, 1104, 1105Federal land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389, 566Foreign investors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308, 1309, 1311Forest, area and ownership . . . . . . . . . . 390, 1150Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424

Land (see also Farms and Public lands): —Con.Urban land area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Landfills (see also Solid waste) . . . . . 401, 402, 1350Languages spoken at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Laos. See Foreign countries.Laotian population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Larceny, larceny-theft . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343,

346, 349, 355Lard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Latex. See Rubber.Latvia. See Foreign countries.Laundry, cleaning, and garment services:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Law degrees conferred . . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 327Law enforcement (see also Courts, crime, and

correctional institutions):Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354, 355, 357Drug enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357, 358Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500, 506, 514, 516Police officers . . . . 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 531,

672Wiretaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Lawn care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170

Air quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398, 399, 400Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Water quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Leather and leather products, manufacturing (seealso Hides and skins, and Footwear):

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1438, 1439, 1440Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1337, 1438, 1439, 1440Employees . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1337, 1438,

1439, 1440Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1438, 1439, 1440Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1438, 1439, 1440Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Lebanon. See Foreign countries.Legal assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Legal, governmental, public administrative

associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Legal services:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . 672, 673, 675, 676, 687, 1296,

1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

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Legionellosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Legislatures, state party composition . . . . . . 475, 476Leisure activities. See Recreation.Lemons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1136Lens extraction, insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Leprosy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Lesotho. See Foreign countries.Letters (postal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940, 941, 942Lettuce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 787, 1111, 1135Leveraged buy-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Liberia. See Foreign countries.Libraries and librarians . . . . 329, 330, 331, 332, 333

City governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Grants, foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Internet use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Libya. See Foreign countries.Licenses, permits, etc.:

Public lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514, 517

Liechtenstein. See Foreign countries.Life expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 129, 130

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Life insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852, 853, 854Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854Cash value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733, 736Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 854Finances . 602, 794, 796, 799, 816, 832, 843, 854Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796, 832, 843In force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852Individual Retirement Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845Mortgage loans outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816Purchases, policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852, 853Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796, 797, 854Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853, 854

Life sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003, 1004Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326, 1003Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001

Lifetime, average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Life years lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Light and power. See Electric light and power

industry.Lime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Liquefied petroleum gases, consumption . . . . . . 1182Liquor stores, retail:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1285

Liquors and beverages:Alcoholism treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 249Government revenues . . . . . . 506, 514, 515, 517State legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050

Lithuania. See Foreign countries.Livestock and livestock products (see also Animals,

domestic, and individual classes):Commodity futures trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1137Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . 1110, 1111, 1114Farm output and marketing indexes . . . . . . . 1118Foreign trade . . . . . 1119, 1121, 1124, 1137, 1326Number and value on farms . . . . . . . . . 1138, 1139

Livestock and livestock products (see also Animals,domestic, and individual classes): —Con.

Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115, 1138Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1137, 1138, 1139Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137Value on farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138

Living cost. See Consumer price indexes andPrices.

Loans and mortgages (see also Debt):Automobile loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801, 821, 820Banks, commercial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801, 806, 821Commercial paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830Consumer credit . . . . . . . 800, 801, 806, 820, 824Credit market, flow of funds . . . . . . 795, 796, 799Credit unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801, 812Delinquency rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819, 821Direct loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546Farm. See Farm mortgage loans.Federal Housing Administration (FHA) . . . . . . 819Finance company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Foreclosure rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810Guaranteed loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546Home mortgage/equity loans . . . . 800, 801, 816,

817, 818, 821, 1220Installment loans . . . . . . . . . . . . 800, 801, 821, 820Interest rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815, 827Life insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854Minority-operated small businesses . . . . . . . . . 882Mortgage-backed securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829Mortgage companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814Mortgage pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795Mortgages . . . . . . . . 769, 795, 799, 800, 801, 816Personal loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820Repossessions, bank loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821Savings institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801, 812Veterans Administration (VA) . . . . . . . . . . 598, 819

Lobsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163Local and suburban transit. See Passenger transit

industry.Local government. See individual governmental

units and state and local government.Locomotives (railroad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Lodging industries. See Hotels and other lodging

places.London FTSE 100 stock market index . . . . . . . . 1388Lotteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522, 523Louisiana. See state data.Louisiana Purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388Low birthweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 100, 103, 122Lumber:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1154Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1153Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152Railroad car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Waterborne commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

Lumber and wood products, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1412, 1413, 1414Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1309, 1412, 1413,

1414Employees . . 676, 687, 1151, 1233, 1234, 1309,

1412, 1413, 1414Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151, 1309Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

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Lumber and wood products, manufacturing: —Con.Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1412, 1413, 1414Gross domestic product . . . . . . . 716, 1147, 1231Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1375Railroad car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Shipments . 1151, 1233, 1234, 1412, 1413, 1414Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Luxembourg. See Foreign countries.Lyme disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

MMacadamia nuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Macau. See Foreign countries.Macedonia. See Foreign countries.Machine tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1259, 1292, 1451Machinery. See individual types and Industrial

machinery and equipment.Mackerel, Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164Madagascar. See Foreign countries.Magazines:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943, 944Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913Sales, mailorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234, 1287

Magnesium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940, 941, 942Maine. See state data.Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Malawi. See Foreign countries.Malaysia. See Foreign countries.Maldives. See Foreign countries.Male householder. See Households or families.Mali. See Foreign countries.Malt beverages (see also Beverages) . . . 249, 1121,

1234, 1245Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249, 773

Malta. See Foreign countries.Managers. See Proprietors, etc.Manganese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167, 1174, 1175Manganiferous ore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Manmade fibers and fabrics (see also Foreign trade

and specific items) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248Manufactured products (see also individual

products):Exports, U.S. as compared to world . . . . . . . 1244Production indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241

Manufacturers’ excise taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551Manufacturing industry (see also individual

industries):Auto parts and accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835, 892, 906Companies exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322Consumer durables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417Earnings . 685, 687, 691, 869, 1232, 1233, 1236,

1337, 1339Economic indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Employees . 662, 675, 676, 685, 686, 687, 856,

867, 868, 869, 874, 1233, 1337, 1339Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . 867, 868, 869, 874, 1232, 1236,

1337, 1339Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

Manufacturing industry (see also individualindustries): —Con.

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859, 865, 897, 906, 1334Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372, 1373, 1375Foreign investments in U.S . . . . . . . . . 1307, 1311Form of organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232Gross domestic product . . 716, 720, 1231, 1334Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238, 1240Investment abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 708Outlying areas of United States . . . . . 1337, 1339Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 689, 1241, 1242

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . 1373, 1374, 1375Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 865, 904, 906Sales, shipments, receipts . 856, 857, 865, 869,

896, 901, 906, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1237,1238, 1240, 1259

Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1236

Margarine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 787Marihuana (see also Drugs (illegal)):

Arrests, seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357, 358Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Marine communication, private radio stations . . . 922Marine Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586Marital status of population . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 62, 162

Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 72By presence of children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Cohabitation experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65Couples with or without own household . . . . . . 69Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 62Employed persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657Female householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Householder status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68, 72Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Labor force participation rates . . . 652, 653, 654,

655Nonfamily householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Unmarried couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Women in the labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653, 654Work schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Marriage and divorce (see also Marital status) . . 92,156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163

Median age at marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Outlying areas of U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Remarriages . . . . . . . . . . . 157, 158, 159, 161, 162

Married couples. See Households or families.Married persons. See Marital status.Marshall Islands. See Foreign countries.Martial arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Martinique. See Foreign countries.Maryland. See state data.Massachusetts. See state data.Maternal and child health service, expenditures

for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 601Maternity leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Mathematics:

Degrees conferred . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 1003,1004

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

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Mauritania. See Foreign countries.Mauritius. See Foreign countries.Mayotte. See Foreign countries.Measles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224, 227, 228Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments.

See Instruments and related products,manufacturing.

Meat and meat products (see also Food andkindred products, and individual meats):

Consumer expenditures . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736Consumption . . . . . . . 244, 247, 1122, 1138, 1361Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116

Food at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736Foreign trade . . . . . 1119, 1122, 1124, 1137, 1324Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 787Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137, 1380, 1382Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

Media (see also individual medium) . 481, 914, 915,916

Medicaid:Coverage, recipients . . 175, 177, 178, 181, 605,

606, 607Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175, 601, 605Nursing homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178, 217, 218State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Medical care (see also Health and Health services):Budget outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481, 1483Expenditures for . 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170,

601, 605, 733, 734, 735, 736Hospital visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Insurance benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 169, 849

Expenditures for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 169Price indexes, consumer . . . . . . . . . 179, 772, 773

Fixed-weighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780, 782Products and shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239Reimbursements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Medical research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Medical schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192, 327

Foreign graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Number, students, graduates . . . . . . . . . . 192, 327

Medical sciences, employment . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 673Medical services. See Health services.Medicare:

Benefit payments, expenditures . 164, 171, 172,173, 174, 601

Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Hospital visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Nursing homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217, 218Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Utilization and charges . . . . . . . . . . . 172, 173, 174

Medicines. See Drugs and medicines.Melons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1118, 1135Membership organizations:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1296, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1301Gross national product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274

Members of Congress. See Congress, U.S.Menhaden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Meningitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 224Mental hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 202, 219

Merchandise. See Foreign trade and Generalmerchandise stores.

Merchant vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092, 1093Employment and wage scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092, 1097, 1099

Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098Tonnage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099, 1341

Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173, 1175Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Metals . . 1065, 1167, 1168, 1169, 1170, 1171, 1172,

1173, 1175Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324, 1326Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169

Indexes of production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166Railroad, car loadings of . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Spot market price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1341, 1377

Metal industries, primary, manufacturing (see alsoIron and Steel):

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256, 1326Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901, 904, 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998Shipments . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1240, 1258, 1260Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Metal mining industry:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 896, 1167Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Production indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

Metal working machinery . . . . 687, 1233, 1260, 1344Methane gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401Metropolitan areas:

Airline markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073Civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737Consumer price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Housing prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205

Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729Land area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Asian, Pacific Islander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45

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Mexican origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 55Births and birth rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Mexico. See Foreign countries.Mica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1175

Foreign trade (sheet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Mica, scrap and flake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Michigan. See state data.Microcomputers (see Computers)Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 31, 32Military bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Military expenditures, worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395Military outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Military sciences, degrees conferred . 324, 325, 326Military services:

Basic pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Contract awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571, 572, 573Construction, value of buildings . . . . . . . . . . . 1194Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567, 568, 569, 571National Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591Pay grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571, 573Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571, 573, 583

Rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Reserves, by branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Costs, by branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590Sex and age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Retirees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580, 604, 612Retirement system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612Selective service, inductees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

By war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Milk, cream and other dairy products:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244, 247, 1141Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141, 1142, 1143, 1380Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143

Milo. See Sorghum for grain.Mineral fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Mineral leases, public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571Minerals and mineral products (see also Mining and

individual minerals):Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175

Waterborne commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091Imports as percent of consumption . . . . . . . . 1175Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789, 790Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171Production and value . . 1166, 1168, 1169, 1172,

1173Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379

Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals,except fuels:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, exceptfuels: —Con.

Shipments, receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

Mining industry (see also Minerals and mineralproducts and individual minerals):

Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865, 901Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165, 1167Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 867, 869, 1165,

1167, 1337Employees . 675, 676, 685, 687, 867, 869, 874,

1165, 1167, 1337Establishments . 867, 869, 874, 1165, 1167, 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857, 859, 865, 901, 1334Foreign investments in the U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1334Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 859, 865, 901Receipts . . . . . . . . 856, 857, 869, 901, 1165, 1167Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165, 1167, 1262Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165, 1167

Mining machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262Minnesota. See state data.Mississippi. See state data.Mississippi River traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090Missouri. See state data.Mobile homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203, 1211

Capital stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224Mobility status of population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Moldova. See Foreign countries.Molybdenum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173Monaco. See Foreign countries.Monetary system and banks, flow of funds . 794, 796Money market accounts, funds . 794, 796, 797, 829

Families using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797, 798Money market rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827Money orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940Money supply (stock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826Mongolia. See Foreign countries.Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276Montana. See state data.Montenegro. See Foreign countries.Montserrat. See Foreign countries.Morocco. See Foreign countries.Mortality costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Mortgage pools and trusts . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 816Mortgages. See Loans and mortgages.Motion pictures industry:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427, 913, 1296, 1298

Motors and generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Motor freight transportation and warehousing. See

Trucking and warehousing.Motor fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053, 1378

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 945, 946, 947Consumption:

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Motor fuel —Con.Civil aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080Motor vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053

Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514, 517Outlying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 1025

Motor homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037Motor vehicle dealers, retail:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1281Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1281Establishments . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1281, 1288Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281Franchises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280, 1281Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277, 1279, 1281, 1288, 1291

Motor vehicles:Accidents/deaths . . . 143, 147, 148, 1018, 1041,

1043Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 945, 946, 947Air pollutant emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Alternative fueled vehicles in use . . . . . . . . . . 1028Common carriers . 1016, 1055, 1056, 1061, 1062Consumer expenditures . 733, 734, 735, 736, 737Drivers licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263Expenditure per new car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032, 1324Fuel consumed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850Miles of travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Motor vehicles in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033National income accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222, 1223Passenger outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Price indexes, consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 782

Fixed-weighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780, 782Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030, 1032Railroad car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064Recalled for safety defects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051Recreational vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029, 1034, 1338Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030, 1282Service and repair shops. See Automotive

repair, services, and parking.Taxes, licenses and motor fuel . . . . . . . 514, 1338Theft . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 343, 349, 354, 355Tires and batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032, 1053, 1054

Motor vehicles and equipment, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1234Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326Gross domestic product . . . . . . . 716, 1036, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901, 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . 898, 1233, 1234,

1238, 1244, 1258, 1263, 1341Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Motorcycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029, 1041, 1324

Motorcycles —Con.Accidents and deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Helmet law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050

Mountain biking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Movie theaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427, 437, 444, 914Mozambique. See Foreign countries.Mullet, catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Multiple births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Mumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228, 224Municipal and state bonds . . . . . . . . . . . 828, 829, 836Municipal waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402, 403

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350Municipalities. See Cities and Metropolitan areas.Murders . . . 147, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341,

354, 355Museums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Museums, botanical, zoological gardens: (Industry

data)Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Federal aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445, 1296, 1301Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298, 1301

Mushrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1135Music:

Listening and expenditures . 430, 446, 447, 914Industry receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913, 931

Musicians and composers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Muslim population. See Religion.Mutton (see also Meat and meat products) . 247, 1137Mutual funds . 794, 796, 797, 798, 832, 843, 844, 845,

846, 848Myringotomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

NNamibia. See Foreign countries.National Aeronautics and Space Administration . 989

Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008Expenditures, research and development . . . 988

Space program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008, 1009Space launches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010, 1011

National Association of Securities Dealers(NASDAQ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

Stock indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836National banks. See Banks.NCAA sports participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435National debt. See Debt.National defense (see also individual military

services):Contract awards and payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Employment, defense-related industries . . . . 570Expenditures, world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574Federal employment and payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . 531Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537, 543, 568Military forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582, 584

Armed Forces personnel, foreign countries .1396

Branch of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586Ready reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589Outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567Worldwide military expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

National forests. See Forests.National Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

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product) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722National nonprofit associations—number, by

type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295NATO countries, military expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 574Natural gas:

Consumption . 944, 948, 949, 952, 955, 956, 958Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953, 954, 955, 958Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949, 963, 964, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 778, 960, 1171, 1184Production . . . . 948, 949, 950, 1168, 1169, 1179

World . . . . . . . . 1173, 1184, 1185, 1341, 1377Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180

Natural gas plant liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179

Natural resources:Federal outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Governmental finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Aid to state and local governments . . . . . 504Government employment and payrolls . . 531Governmental revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500State and local governments . . . . . . . . . . . 506State governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513, 514

Nature study (recreation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423Nauru. See Foreign countries.Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586Nebraska. See state data.Nectarines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1136Neonatal deaths (see also Deaths and death

rates) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134, 135Nepal. See Foreign countries.Netherlands. See Foreign countries.Netherlands Antilles. See Foreign countries.Neurologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Nevada. See state data.New business incorporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878New Caledonia. See Foreign countries.New Hampshire. See state data.New Jersey. See state data.New Mexico. See state data.New product introductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889New York. See state data.New York Stock Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 838

Stock indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836New Zealand. See Foreign countries.Newspapers:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943, 947Expenditures, consumer . . . . . . . . 425, 914, 1287Frequency of publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933Number and circulation . . . . . . . . . . . 915, 934, 935

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Public confidence in media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 916Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913

Newspapers, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 932, 1233, 1234Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 932, 1233, 1234Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932, 1234Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . 932, 1233, 1234Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932, 1233, 1234

Newsprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157, 1158Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341

Nicaragua. See Foreign countries.Nickel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1173, 1175, 1324

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Production and value . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1170, 1173World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Niger. See Foreign countries.Nigeria. See Foreign countries.Nitrogen in ammonia, world production . 1170, 1173,

1377Nobel prize laureates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012Nonferrous metals and products. See Metals and

metal products.Nonfinancial corporations. See Corporations.Nonprofit associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295North Carolina. See state data.North Dakota. See state data.Northern Mariana Islands. See Outlying areas of the

U.S.North Korea. See Foreign countries.Norway. See Foreign countries.Nuclear power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978

Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 976, 977Commercial generation, by country . . . . . . . . . 977Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948, 949, 952Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962, 971, 975, 976, 977Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976, 977State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975Waste discharged fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978, 1350

Nursery and greenhouse products . . . . . . . 1111, 1132Nursing personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 191, 193

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Nursing and personal care facilities:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1300Employees . . . . 189, 217, 676, 687, 1296, 1297,

1300Establishments . . . . . 211, 217, 1296, 1297, 1300Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165, 166, 167

Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165, 166Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188, 1301, 1296Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298, 1300Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217, 218

Nursing programs, students, and graduates . . . . 192Nutritional deficiencies, deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Nutrition:

Consumption of major commodities . . . 247, 248,249

Nutrients and nutritional intake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Nuts:

Cash receipts, marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122, 1134Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124, 1124, 1134Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1134, 1380

OObstetricians (See also Physicians) . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Occupations (see also individual occupations):

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 674Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696, 697

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Occupations (see also individual occupations): —Con.Employment:

Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 674Flexible work schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 674, 675

Employment cost index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Labor union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Pension plan/health plan coverage . . . . . . . . . 702Sex, and educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . 674White-collar and blue-collar workers . . . . . . . . 698

Ocean perch, Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Office buildings (see also Commercial

buildings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194, 1228, 1229Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194, 1227Vacancy rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227, 1230

Office equipment. See Computer and officeequipment.

Offshore leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178Ohio. See state data.Oil. See Petroleum and products.Oil and gas extraction industry:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901, 1167Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1167Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Production indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166Shipments, receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

Oil crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1115, 1118, 1119, 1121Oil spills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396, 1096Oils:

Animal (oils and fats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1124Animal and vegetable, foreign trade . 1123, 1124Vegetable:

Foreign trade . 1119, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1324Production, consumption, and stocks . . 247,

1122, 1123, 1380Oklahoma. See state data.Old-age pensions. See Pensions.Old-age, survivors, disability, and health insurance.

See Social insurance.Olives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Oman. See Foreign countries.Onions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 787, 1111, 1135Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Operations performed, medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Ophthalmologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Optometrists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165, 166, 1297Optometry schools, students, graduates . . . . . . . . 192Oranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1136Oregon. See state data.Ores, crude, world production (see also

individual ores) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173Organ transplants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Osteopaths (see also Physicians) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Osteoporosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Otolaryngology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Outdoor recreation activities (see also Amusements,

Recreation and specific forms of recreation) . 423,433, 434, 438, 439

Outlays, Federal budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Outlying areas:

Aid by U.S. government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387, 1329Banks and banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811, 1333Births and deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Business, summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337, 1339Climate (Puerto Rico) . 416, 417, 418, 419, 420,

421Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337, 1339Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307, 1333

Attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332

Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337, 1339Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337, 1339Federal payments to individuals . . . . . . . . . . . 1331Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334, 1335Foreign investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336Geographic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Gross product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334Highway statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338Hospital facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330, 1333Labor force and employment . . . . . . . 1330, 1333Language spoken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329Marriage and divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330Population and/or area . 387, 1327, 1329, 1333,

1343Public aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626Public libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339Social insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333Unemployment insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619Vital statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328

Outpatient hospital visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 201, 210Overweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242, 243Oysters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163, 1164

PPacific Islander population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 52

Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004Pagers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268Paints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Pakistan. See Foreign countries.Pakistani population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Palau. See Foreign countries.Panama. See Foreign countries.Papayas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Paper and allied products industry,

manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1418, 1419Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1418, 1419Employees . 687, 1151, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1418,

1419Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151, 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

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Paper and allied products industry,manufacturing: —Con.

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1418, 1419Gross domestic product . . . . . . . 716, 1147, 1231Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998Sales, shipments, receipts . . . 1136, 1151, 1233,

1238, 1240, 1418, 1419Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Paper and paperboard products:Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157, 1158Railroad car loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Pap smear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Papua New Guinea. See Foreign countries.Paraguay. See Foreign countries.Paris CAC-40 stock market index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1388Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424Government employment and payrolls . . . . . . 531National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Parolees (see also Correctional institutions, andPrisons and prisoners) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Parties, political. See Political parties.Partnerships, establishments and finances . 855, 856,

857, 859, 860Passenger transit industry (see also Passengers):

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Passengers (see also Passenger transit industryand various transportation modes):

Arriving from overseas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 454Carrier operation, summary . . 1055, 1056, 1063,

1070Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070, 1079Rail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063

Outlays, by type of transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Passenger traffic, volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063

Patents and trademarks . . . . . . . 886, 887, 888, 1376Pathologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Payrolls. Earnings and individual industries.Peaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1136Peanuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1111Peanut butter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Pears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 787, 1111, 1136Peas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Peat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Pecans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1136Pediatricians (see also Physicians) . . . . . . . . 190, 196Pennsylvania. See state data.Pensions and retirement benefits (see also Social

insurance):Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602, 612, 617, 736Families receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Funds (flow of funds) . . . . . . . 794, 796, 797, 847Government employees . . . . 533, 601, 604, 612,

613, 614Pension plans . . . . 615, 617, 702, 832, 846, 843

Pensions and retirement benefits (see also Socialinsurance): —Con.

Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 604Retirement and savings plans . . . 533, 612, 617,

703, 704, 845, 846Veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592, 604

Pens, pencils, office and art supplies,manufacturing:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Peppers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787, 1111, 1135Perch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164, 1231Performing arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Periodicals. See Printing and publishing.Perlite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Personal computers. See Computers.Personal consumption expenditures . 425, 715, 718,

722, 780, 781, 782Fixed-weighted price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782Food and beverages, foreign countries . . . . 1360Recreation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Personal care price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Personal health care:

Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165, 166, 169, 170Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 238

Personal income . . . . . 724, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730Personal savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725, 731Personal services industry:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Employees . . . 675, 676, 687, 1296, 1297, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Personnel supply services industry:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1296, 1297Employees . . . . . . . . . . 675, 676, 687, 1296, 1297Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1298

Pertussis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Peru. See Foreign countries.Pesticides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Pets:

Pet ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Pet products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945, 946

Petroleum and refining products, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1434Earnings . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1434Employees . . 676, 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1434Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969Foreign investments in U.S . . . 1307, 1308, 1310Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904, 905, 968, 969Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997Sales, shipments . 1167, 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240,

1434Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

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Petroleum and refining products, manufacturing: —Con.Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Petroleum and products:Consumption . . . . . . . . . 948, 949, 950, 952, 1175Foreign trade . . . . 949, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967,

968, 1175, 1176, 1318, 1326Lease revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178Oilspills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960, 1171Production . . . . 948, 949, 950, 1168, 1171, 1173,

1176, 1178, 1181, 1185World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1181, 1377, 1379

Railroad, carloadings of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Refineries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176, 1180Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967Strategic reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176, 1177

Drilling costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177Leases and production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178

Pharmaceutical preps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234, 1252Pharmacists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Pharmacy schools, students, graduates . . . . . . . . 192Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639, 640, 641, 642, 643Philippines. See Foreign countries.Phonograph records and tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Phosphate rock:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Photographic equipment and supplies . . 1234, 1324Physical activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Physical sciences:

Degrees conferred . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 1003,1004

Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 673, 1001Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189, 190, 193, 194

Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190, 193, 672Expenditures for . . . . . . . 165, 166, 167, 169, 170Foreign medical school graduates . . . . . . . . . . 190Medical schools, students and graduates . . 192,

327Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1298Patient care activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Related employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673Specialty and professional activity . . . . . . . . . . 190State data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Type of practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 195, 210

Physics (see also Physical sciences):Nobel prize laureates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Physiology, Nobel prize laureates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012Pig iron. See Iron.Piggyback, railroad carloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078Pigs. See Hogs.Pilchard. See Sardines.Pineapples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1136Pipelines, except natural gas:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1067

Pipelines, except natural gas: —Con.Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Pistachios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Pistols. See Firearms.Plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432, 1132Plastic surgeons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234, 1324Platinum-group metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190, 1225Plums and prunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1111, 1136Plural births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Plywood:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1153Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155

Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 206Poisoning, deaths from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Poland. See Foreign countries.Police. See Law enforcement and Public safety.Poliomyelitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Political action committees (PAC) . 490, 491, 492, 495Political parties, organizations:

Campaign finances . . . . . . . . . 488, 493, 494, 495Political action committees (PAC) . 492, 495

Congress, composition of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466, 467Congressional districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464Governors, by party affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481State legislatures, composition of . . . . . 475, 476Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Voter identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485Voter registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482Votes . . . . . . . . 458, 460, 461, 462, 463, 465, 474

Political TV advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Pollock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Pollution:

Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398, 399, 400Hazardous waste sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408Motor vehicle emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Oilspills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396, 1096Toxic releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404, 405, 406Wastewater treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396, 416

Poor persons. See Income and poverty.Population (see also Vital statistics):

Age:American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut

population . . . . . . . . . . 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 54Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . 21,

22, 23, 24, 25, 52Black population . 13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24,

25, 51

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Population (see also Vital statistics): —Con.Distribution . 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24,

25, 33, 36, 57Hispanic origin population . 21, 22, 23, 25, 55Outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329Race . 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 51,

52School enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 257Sex . . . . . . . 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 30Voting-age population . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483, 486

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut. See AmericanIndian, Eskimo, Aleut population.

Ancestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Asian, Pacific Islander population. See Asian,

Pacific Islander population.Black. See Black population.Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 48Civilian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Coastal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Components of change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 20, 28Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 26, 27

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 16, 21, 33, 36, 49, 50, 88Ethnic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 57Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343, 1344Hispanic origin. See Hispanic origin population.Households and/or families. See Households or

families.Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 8, 9, 11Labor force. See Labor force, employment and

earnings.Marital status. See Marital status of population.Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 41, 42, 43

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut . . . . . . 44, 45Asian, Pacific Islander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 45

Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 31, 32Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Nativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 57Outlying areas of U.S . . . . 26, 1327, 1329, 1333Place of birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Projections . 3, 4, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 35,

36, 37, 38Race . . . . . . . . 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24,

25, 37, 38States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38

Resident . . . 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 16, 18, 24, 29, 33, 39Rural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 14, 16, 17, 24, 25, 57States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27, 28, 33, 34

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleutpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38

Asian, Pacific Islander population . . . 34, 37,38

Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 38Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 36Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Voting age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483, 486

Total, including Armed Forces overseas . . . . . . . 2Townships and special districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498Urban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340, 1343, 1344

Pork (see also Meat and meat products):Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1122, 1137, 1361Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121, 1122, 1137Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137, 1138Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

Pork chops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Portland cement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Portugal. See Foreign countries.Postal rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942Postal Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940, 941, 942Potash (potassium salts) . . . 1168, 1169, 1170, 1173Potassium, foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Potatoes:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1133Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787, 1115Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133, 1135

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Poultry (see also Eggs):

Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1137, 1361Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124, 1137Number on farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787, 1115, 1144Production and sales . . 1118, 1137, 1144, 1146,

1380Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144

Poverty:Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757, 759Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 764, 765

American Indian, Eskimo, Aleutpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Asian and Pacific Islander population . . . . 52Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 764, 765Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748Hispanic origin population . . . . . 55, 764, 765Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Labor force participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218, 1222Persons:

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759, 760, 763American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut

population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Black population . . . . 51, 747, 756, 757, 759,

760, 763Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757, 759Elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 759, 760Hispanic origin population . 55, 747, 756, 757,

759, 760State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Power (see also Electric light and power industry):Electric . . . . . . 971, 972, 973, 974, 976, 979, 980Hydro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971Nuclear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 977Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785, 954, 970Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982

Power plants. See Electric light and power industry.Precipitation, selected cities . . . . 418, 419, 420, 782Pregnancies . . . . . . . . . . 114, 115, 116, 121, 122, 123

Drinking during pregnancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Smoking during pregnancy . . . . . . . . . . . . 121, 122Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Prenatal care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 100, 104

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Prescription drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773President, U.S., elections for . . . 458, 459, 460, 461,

462, 486Campaign finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489, 492, 493

Prices (see also individual commodities):Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 841Books and periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785, 954, 970Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955, 960, 1378Fish, by species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786, 787Foreign countries . . . . . . . 776, 1358, 1359, 1378Housing . . . 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205, 1206, 1208Indexes:

Airline cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071Construction materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Consumer price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773, 1358

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358Medical care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Selected metro areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790Fixed-weighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782Houses, one-family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783, 789Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Construction materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Newsprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158Railroad freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066Stage-of-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777Timber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155

Purchasing power of the dollar . . . . . . . . . 771Received by farmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115School expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Spot market price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Lumber and stumpage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1156Mineral products (see also individual

minerals) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171Received by farmers:

Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Livestock and products, poultry . . . . . . . 1138,

1144Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 841

Primaries, Presidential preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Primary metal industries. See Metal industries.Printing and publishing industries:

Book and periodical prices . . . . . . . . . . . . 938, 939Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932, 1421Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 932, 1233, 1421Employees . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 932, 1233, 1421Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1421Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241Sales, shipments, receipts . 898, 932, 1233, 1234,

1420, 1421Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932, 1233

Prisons and prisoners (see also Correctionalinstitutions) . . . 376, 377, 378, 380, 381, 382, 383,

384, 388Death sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380, 381, 382, 383Executions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382, 383

Prisons and prisoners (see also Correctionalinstitutions) —Con.

Inmate characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376Sentence, by offense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Private employer firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870, 872Private establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Private households (services) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Probation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777, 778, 779

Construction materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Newsprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158Railroad freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066Stage-of-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777Timber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155

Productivity (see also individual industries):Capacity utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242Farm output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1126Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 689, 1373, 1372, 1374Mining industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186

Profits . . . . . . . . . . 807, 808, 848, 850, 863, 864, 1281Corporations . 725, 856, 902, 903, 904, 905, 1243Partnerships and proprietorships . 856, 858, 860

Projections:Births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 98, 1345College enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 252, 255Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 1345Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673, 676Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949High school graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 74, 75Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 676Life expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 1345Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Personal income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730Population . . . . . . . . 3, 4, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 1343School enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250, 252, 255Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 269, 673Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Property and casualty insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850Fire losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384, 385, 386

Property tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 500, 514Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742Rates, selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521State and local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Proprietors’ income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Proprietorships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 858Prostatectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Prostitution and commercialized vice, arrests . . 354,

355Protective service workers. See Public safety.Protein available for consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Protestants. See Religion.Prunes and plums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1136Psychiatric care and institutions. See Mental

hospitals.Psychology:

Degrees conferred . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 1004Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Research, U.S. government obligations for . 999

Psychotherapeutic drugs, nonmedical use . . . . . . 237Public administration. See government.Public aid, assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599, 601, 626

Benefits paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173, 601, 626Federal aid to state and local governments . 504,

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Public aid, assistance —Con.Federal expenditures . 164, 167, 174, 175, 178,

601, 603, 605, 606, 627, 628Health expenditures . . . 164, 167, 174, 175, 178,

601, 605, 606Recipients . . . 604, 605, 606, 607, 626, 627, 628

Public broadcasting stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925, 926Public domain. See Public lands.Public housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505, 599, 601, 605, 606Public lands (see also Forests):

Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388, 389, 566Cost and usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Forest land, area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149, 1150Leases, permits, licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566, 1178National park system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Recreation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 423

Public officials, prosecutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370Public roads. See Highways.Public safety (see also Law enforcement):

Communication, private radio stations . . . . . . 922Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 673

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536Fire protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Police protection and correction . . 361, 531,

535Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526Local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519State and local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506State government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Public schools. See Education.Public transportation indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Publishing industry. See Printing and publishing

industries.Puerto Rico. See Outlying areas of the U.S.Puerto Rican population (see also Hispanic origin

population) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 55Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Pulmonary diseases . 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 206,224, 231

Pulpwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151, 1152, 1153Pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1380Pumice and pumicite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Pumps and compressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263Purchasing power of the dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771Pyrites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169

QQatar. See Foreign countries.Quarries. See Mining industries.Quicksilver (mercury) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169

RRabies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Racetrack operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Racquetball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Radiologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Radio broadcasting stations:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913, 923Gross domestic products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Public confidence in media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Radio broadcasting stations: —Con.Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915, 922

Radios:Audience characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 916Households with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914

Railroad employees retirement funds . . . . . . 540, 601Railroad Retirement Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601Railroads:

AMTRAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Construction value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194Carloadings, by commodity . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1063Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1063Equipment in service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449, 452, 828, 890, 1063Freight price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066Freight traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 1016, 1063, 1064, 1065Mileage owned and operated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018, 1063Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Passenger traffic and revenue . . . . . . 1016, 1063Piggyback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Rainfall, selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418, 419Rankings:

Airport traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072Cities:

Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 48Residential property tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Countries:Consumption of beef, pork, poultry . . . . 1361Exports and imports of wheat, rice,

corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343

Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321Federal R&D obligations to higher education . 996Hazardous waste sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Sports participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438, 439State:

Domestic travel expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . 453Farm marketings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1114Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319Government finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515Personal income per capita . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Disposable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Public elementary/secondary school

finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Rape, forcible . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 342, 346, 347,

348, 349, 354, 355Rapeseed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1380Rare-earth minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Raw materials. See Crude materials.Reading (see also Books and Libraries) . . 426, 446,

733, 734, 735Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Real estate industry:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 687, 793, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298

Receipts (see also individual industries andTax receipts) . . . . . . 1190, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1298

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Receipts (see also individual industries andTax receipts) —Con.

Corporations, partnerships, and proprietor-ships . 855, 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 863, 864,

865, 870International transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088Revenue:

Local governments . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 500, 518City governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525, 526

State and local governments combined . 499,506, 508

State governments . . . . . . 500, 513, 514, 515Tax collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540United States Government . 499, 500, 537, 539,

551From national forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148

Recreation (see also Amusement and recreationalservices):

Activities . 245, 422, 423, 424, 432, 436, 437, 438,444, 446, 447, 448, 449, 914

Building construction, value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195Consumer expenditures . . . . 425, 426, 428, 442,

443, 914Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Employment and expenditures, government . 543

City governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Parks:

Government expenditures . . . . . . . . . 501, 506National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424

Performing arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Spectator sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450, 451, 453, 454, 455Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Recreational vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437, 442Recycling waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402, 403, 404Refractories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254Refrigerators and refrigeration equipment . . . . . 1263Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 9Refuse collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90, 91, 1342

Buddhists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 1342Catholics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90, 1342Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640Church/synagogue attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Hindus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 1342Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90, 91, 1342Muslim/Islamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 1342Philanthropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641, 643Protestants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90, 1342

Religious organizations . . . . . . . . . . . 1295, 1297, 1342Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Religious preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Remarriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Rents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Repair services. See Automobile repair, services,

and parking.Representatives, U.S. See Congress, U.S.Research and development:

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000Expenditures:

By country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993College and universities . . . . . . 990, 991, 994Federal . . . . . . 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993,

995, 996

Research and development: —Con.Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990, 991, 997, 998National defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568, 988States, by sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991

Research and testing services:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1300Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1300Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1301Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300

Reservations, American Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Residential buildings. See Construction industry,

and Housing and housing units.Residential capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224Restaurants. See Eating and drinking places.Retail trade:

Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . 685, 687, 691, 692, 869, 1275, 1276,

1277, 1288, 1337, 1339Employees . 662, 675, 676, 679, 685, 686, 687,

867, 868, 869, 874, 1275, 1276, 1277,1288, 1337, 1339

Establishments . 867, 868, 869, 874, 1275, 1276,1277, 1288, 1337, 1339

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820, 856, 857, 859, 1334Foreign investments in the U.S . 1308, 1310, 1311Gross domestic product . . 716, 720, 1274, 1334Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896, 1280Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869Sales . 1275, 1277, 1279, 1280, 1288, 1291, 1339

Retirement systems:Benefits paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 612Civil service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612, 613, 847Federal other than civil service . . . . . . . . 612, 847Old-age, survivors, disability, and health

insurance. See Social insurance.Pension plans . . . . . . . . . 612, 615, 617, 846, 847Public employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540, 601, 847Social security trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609State and local government . 506, 534, 601, 847Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Reunion. See Foreign countries.Revolvers. See Firearms.Rheumatic fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Rhode Island. See state data.Rice:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1122Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Foreign trade . . . . 1119, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1128,

1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1128

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1380Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Rifle (NCAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Rivers, canals, harbors, etc.:

Commerce, domestic and foreign . . . . . . . . . 1090Drainage area and flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Federal expenditures for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089Length of principal rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Water quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

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Roads, public. See Highways.Roadway congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040Robbery . 335, 336, 337, 338, 343, 346, 347, 348, 355Rockfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Rodeos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Roller skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Romania. See Foreign countries.Rowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Rubber, crude natural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119, 1121Rubber and misc. plastics, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1233, 1435, 1436, 1437Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1435, 1436,

1437Employees . 676, 687, 1233, 1234, 1337, 1435,

1436, 1437Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1435, 1436, 1437Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Sales, shipments, receipts . . . . 901, 1233, 1238,

1240, 1435, 1436, 1437Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Rubber products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Rubella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224, 228Rugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222, 687, 1233, 1248, 1253Running/jogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Rural population. See Population.Russell stock indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836Russia. See Foreign countries.Rwanda. See Foreign countries.

SSablefish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Safflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Saint Kitts and Nevis. See Foreign countries.Saint Lucia. See Foreign countries.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. See Foreign

countries.Salad and cooking oils, consumption . . . . . . . . . . . 247Salaries and wages. See Earnings.Sales. See individual commodities and industries.Salesworkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 680Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161

Canned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163, 1164Salmonellosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Salt (common), production . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1377

Production and value . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1377Samoa, American. See Outlying areas of U.S.Samoan population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Sand and gravel industry (see also Mining

industry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167, 1168, 1169, 1170Sanitation. See Health and Sewage treatment.San Marino. See Foreign countries.Sao Tome and Principe. See Foreign countries.Sardines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164Saudi Arabia. See Foreign countries.Sausages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Savings:

Credit unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812

Savings: —Con.Deposit bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731, 796, 797Gross savings, sources and uses . . . . . . . . . . . 725Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724, 725

Savings banks. See Savings institutions.Savings bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548, 798, 826Savings institutions:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793, 803, 804, 813Family debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Finances . . . . 794, 795, 803, 813, 814, 816, 826Individual Retirement Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885

Saw logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1155Sawtimber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150Scallops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290Schools (see also Education):

Boards, elected officials . . . . . . . . . . 477, 479, 480Districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268, 497Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Lunch programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 605, 606, 630, 631Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270, 306, 307

Scientific, engineering, and technicalassociations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295

Scientific instruments. See Instruments.Scientific research. See Research and development.Scientists and engineers (see also individual fields):

Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326, 1004Employment . 672, 673, 995, 996, 997, 998, 999,

1000, 1001By industrial sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001

Scouts, membership and units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449Scrap metal. See individual commodities.Scuba diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Scup, catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Sea bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162Sea trout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Securities:

Foreign holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1305, 1385Foreign purchases and sales . . . 833, 834, 1385,

1386, 1387Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509, 829Held by government corporations and credit

agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796Held by life insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854Holdings of banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796, 806Holdings of individuals and businesses . 796, 797,

799New issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835, 829Prices, indexes, yields and issues . 828, 836, 837,

839, 841, 1387Sales, stocks and bonds . . . 833, 834, 829, 839,

1385, 1386, 1387Savings of individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725, 731State and local government . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 829

Security and commodity brokers:Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 793Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 848Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848

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Sedatives, persons using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118Selenium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Semiconductors and related devices, manufacturing

(see also Electronic components) . . . . . 1234, 1269Senators, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463Senegal. See Foreign countries.Septicemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Serbia. See Foreign countries.Service industries:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . 685, 687, 691, 692, 1297, 1294, 1300,

1337, 1339Employees . 189, 662, 675, 676, 679, 685, 686,

687, 691, 867, 868, 869, 874, 896, 990, 1297,1300, 1337, 1339

Establishments . . 856, 857, 859, 865, 867, 868,869, 874, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1300, 1337, 1339

Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . 857, 859, 864, 865, 1296, 1334Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302, 1304, 1317Gross domestic product . . 716, 720, 1274, 1334Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705, 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 864, 865, 903Sales or receipts . 856, 857, 859, 869, 901, 1294,

1298, 1300, 1339Service occupations:

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696, 697Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 673

By sex and educational attainment . . . . . 674Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Service stations. See Gasoline service stations.Service workers. See Service industries and Service

occupations.Sewage treatment systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397, 505

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505, 1194Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506Residences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211, 1215

Sexual partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111, 112Seychelles. See Foreign countries.Sheep and lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1137, 1138Sheets and pillowcases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253Shellfish:

Canned, quantity and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164Catch, quantity and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Shelter (see also Housing and housing units),consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773

Shigellosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Ship and boat building and repairing . . . . . . . . . . 1093

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1472, 1473Earnings . . . 687, 1093, 1233, 1234, 1472, 1473Employees . 687, 1093, 1233, 1234, 1472, 1473Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1472, 1473Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1234, 1472, 1473Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093, 1233

Shipments, manufacturers’ (see also individualproducts or industries) . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1238, 1239,

1397-1487Shipping. See Merchant vessels and Tonnage.Ships:

Merchant vessels . . . . . . 1092, 1097, 1098, 1099Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098

Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093Tanker casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096

Shoes. See Footwear.Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Shopping centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289, 1290Shortening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Shrimp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1163, 1164Sickness. See Illness.Sierra Leone. See Foreign countries.Silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1175, 1176

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171Production and value . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1176Strategic and critical material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Silverware. See Jewelry.Singapore. See Foreign countries.Single persons. See Marital status.Skate boarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Skiing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 438, 442Skins. See Hides, etc.Slaughtering and meat-packing industry. See Meat

and meat products.Slovakia. See Foreign countries.Slovenia. See Foreign countries.Small business:

Budget outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874

Snapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Snorkeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Snow and ice pellets, selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . 420Snowboarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Snowmobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442Soap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 438, 441Social insurance (see also Medicare, Railroads,

Retirement Systems, and Social Security):Employment covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608Expenditures (public) for . . . . . . . . . 599, 601, 603

Private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602Government insurance trust funds . . . . . . . . . . 500

Federal receipts and expenditures . 540, 609State and local receipts, expenditures . 506,

514, 614Individual programs:

Beneficiaries and benefits . . . . . . . . . 610, 611Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608, 614Federal retirement insurance . 601, 613, 847

Civil service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613Old-age, survivors, disability, and health

insurance:Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Coverage, workers, and earnings . . . 608Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609, 610, 611

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Social insurance (see also Medicare, Railroads,Retirement Systems, and Social Security): —Con.

Tax collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540, 609

Protection against income loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624Railroad insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 847State and local public retirement systems . . 601,

614Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847Unemployment insurance (federal and

state) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 618, 619Workers’ compensation . 164, 167, 603, 620, 621

Social sciences:Degrees conferred . . . 322, 324, 325, 326, 1003,

1004Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 1001Salary offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Social Security (Old-age survivors, disability, andhealth insurance) (see also Social insurance):

Beneficiaries and payments . . . . . . . . . . . 610, 611Contributions, rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Coverage, workers and earnings . . . . . . . . . . . 608Families receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 610, 611Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540, 609

Social services:Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296, 1297, 1300, 1337Employees . . . 675, 676, 687, 1294, 1296, 1297,

1300, 1337Establishments . . 1294, 1296, 1297, 1300, 1337Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Receipts . . . . . . . . . 1294, 1296, 1298, 1300, 1301

Social welfare associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Social welfare (see also individual programs):

Charitable contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640Employees (State and local government) . . . 535Expenditures:

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526County government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599, 600, 601Private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602State and local government . 506, 599, 600,

601State government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516, 514

Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Sodium carbonate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Sodium sulfate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1170Soft drinks (see also Beverages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Softball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 438, 441,Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 930, 1268Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981, 983, 984Solid waste:

Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402, 403, 502Expenditures for pollution abatement . . . . . . . 410Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408, 409, 410Landfills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Solomon Islands. See Foreign countries.Somalia. See Foreign countries.Sorghum grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128Sororities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295South Africa. See Foreign countries.South Carolina. See state data.South Dakota. See state data.

South Korea. See Foreign countries.Soybeans:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1130Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1124, 1128, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1130Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1128, 1130

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1380Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Space expenditures, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007Space program:

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005, 1008, 1009Launches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010NASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008Space shuttle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009, 1011Vehicle systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005, 1324

Space research and technology, Federaloutlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543, 1005, 1008, 1009, 1085

Spain. See Foreign countries.Special education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286Spices, imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119Sporting and athletic goods (see also Sports) . 442,

443, 1287, 1324Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487Retail stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276, 1277, 1279

Sports . . . . . . . . . . . 423, 435, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425, 442NCAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Sports associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Sports industry receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Spot market price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784Squash (NCAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164Sri Lanka. See Foreign countries.Stamps, postage, receipts from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940Standard & Poor’s stock indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836State and local governments, combined data (see

also individual governmental units):Component of gross domestic product . 507, 508Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506, 510

Highways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027Employees . . . . . . . 376, 530, 531, 533, 534, 535

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532, 533Expenditures (see also Finances) . 499, 500, 501,

502, 506, 508By type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500, 501Capital outlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501, 502Hospitals and medical care . . . . . . . . 167, 200Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254Social insurance, etc. . . . . . . . . 599, 600, 601

Federal aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503, 504, 505, 541By function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504, 507, 508

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 500Intergovernmental . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 504, 506

Flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794, 795, 796Forest land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200, 203Number of units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496Payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530, 531Purchases of goods and services . . . . . 507, 508,

715, 717Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

By source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500Retirement systems . . . 601, 612, 614, 794, 832,

847Securities issued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

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State and local governments, combined data (seealso individual governmental units): —Con.

Trust funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Women holding public office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

State data:Abortions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Agriculture:

Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105Income, farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112, 1113, 1114

Aid to families with dependent children . . . . . 626AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Altitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut population . . 34,

37, 38Apparel and accessory stores, sales . . . . . . 1291Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387, 390Asian, Pacific Islander population . . . . 34, 37, 38Assets and liabilities, farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113Automobile insurance expenditures . . . . . . . . . 851Automotive dealers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288, 1291Bankruptcies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880Banks, commercial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811Births and birth rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 96

Birth weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Births to single or unmarried women . . . 103

Black elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479Black population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Building materials and garden supplies,

sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291Building permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197Business enterprise, failures and starts . . . . . 878Capital punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383Child abuse cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374Civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Climate . . . . . . . . . . . 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421Coal and coke production . . . . . . . . . . . 1186, 1189Congress, U.S., composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467Construction contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196Crime rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Crops, principal . . 1121, 1126, 1127, 1129, 1136Deaths and death rates . . . . . . 28, 133, 137, 143

Infant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Defense contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Department stores, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291Domestic travel expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Drivers licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694, 1288Eating and drinking places, sales . . . 1288, 1291Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Elections . . . 460, 461, 463, 465, 467, 474, 475,

484, 486Voter registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 484

Electrical power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973, 974Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Employees . . . . . . . . . . . 535, 534, 562, 686, 1288Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952Energy expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105, 1107, 1113, 1114

Assets and liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112, 1113, 1114Value of farm land and buildings . . . . . . . 1107

Federal funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549Food stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288, 1291Foreign investment in the U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309Foreign traveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456Fuel production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

State data: —Con.Furniture, home furnishing stores . . . . . . . . . . 1291Gas utility industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987Gasoline prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791Gasoline service stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291Gasoline tax rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025General merchandise stores, sales . . . . . . . . 1291Government finances:

Federal aid to state and localgovernments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Federal (income tax collections) . . . . . . . . 556State and local governments . . . . . . . . . . . 406State governments . . . . . . 513, 514, 515, 516Tax collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 522

Governors, vote cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474Gross state product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719, 720, 730Hazardous waste sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . 185, 186Highway funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023Highway mileage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019Highway trust fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024Hispanic elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480Hispanic population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 38Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Cost to patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Households or families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197, 1199, 1206, 1216

Sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206Immigrants admitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113

Disposable personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726, 728Household . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726, 727, 730

Incorporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389, 390

Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050Legislatures, composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475, 476Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139, 1142Local government units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Lotteries, revenue from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522Manufactures, summary statistics . . . . . . . . . 1236Marriage and divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Medicaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Medicare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Metropolitan area population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Milk production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142Mineral production value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172Motorcycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Motor fuel tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025Motor vehicle dealers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288, 1291Motor vehicle registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029National forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423Newspapers, number and circulation . . . . . . . 936Nurses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422, 424Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Police protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27, 33, 34, 42, 46

Age distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut . . 34, 37, 38Asian, Pacific Islander . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 37, 38Components of change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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State data: —Con.Metropolitan areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 36, 37, 38

Poultry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761President, vote cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458, 460Prisons and prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378Private establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Public aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626Public road and street mileage . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Recreational areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423, 424Representatives, U.S. vote cast . . . . . . . . . . . . 464Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991Retail trade, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288, 1291Roads and highways . . . . . . . . . 1019, 1023, 1024Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288, 1291, 1290Schools and education:

Colleges, number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307Educational attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . 264, 265Elementary/secondary teachers, public . 275Enrollment:

Elementary and secondary . . . . . . . . . 271Higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Finances:Elementary and secondary, public . . 280Higher education, public . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

High school graduates, public . . . . . . . . . . 295Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Senators, vote cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463Shopping centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290Social Security program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174, 611Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515, 517, 522, 556Temperatures (highs and lows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Transportation to work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649, 683Unemployment insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618Vehicle miles of travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Veterans, number and expenditures . . . . . . . . 592Voter registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 487Voter turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 486Votes cast . . . . . . . . 460, 461, 463, 474, 482, 486Voting age population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Women holding public office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

State government (see also state and localgovernments):

Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 510, 514, 516Public highways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027

Elected officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Employees and payrolls . . . . 530, 531, 535, 534Finances . 499, 500, 502, 508, 513, 514, 515, 516

Revenue from lotteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 522, 523Tax collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515, 517, 522

Highway funds, disbursements of . . . . . . . . . 1023Park systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424Public confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Receipts, highways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515, 517, 742

State highways. See Highways.State park systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424Statehood, admission to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Steak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Steam engines and turbines, electric, locomotive

(railroad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Steel (see also Iron and steel) . . . 1173, 1256, 1257,

1258

Steel (see also Iron and steel) —Con.Scrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Steel works and rolling mills. See Iron and steel.Stimulants, persons using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Stock exchanges:

Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 841Volume of trading . . . . . . . . . . . 838, 840, 841, 839

Stockholders’ equity, profit rates on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807Stockpiles, government, strategic and critical

materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174Stocks:

Corporate, flow of funds . . . . . . . . . . 794, 796, 832Foreign, U.S. purchases and sales of . . . . . . 834Foreign market indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1388Holdings by sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798, 832Life insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832, 854New issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842Prices, yield, sales, issues, etc. . 828, 831, 836,

838, 1385, 1386, 1387Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Stone, clay, and glass products . . . . . . . . . 1064, 1065Stone, clay, and concrete products, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441, 1442Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1441, 1442Employees . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1441, 1442Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326, 1441, 1442Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998Sales, shipments, receipts . . . 1233, 1238, 1240,

1441, 1442Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Stone (crushed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174Strategic forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Strategic petroleum reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177Strawberries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1135Strokes (see also Cerebrovascular diseases) . . 138,

139, 140, 142, 143, 206Strontium, foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Students. See Education, enrollment.Subways and urban railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055Sudan. See Foreign countries.Sugar and sugar cane (see also Food and kindred

products):Beet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1122Farm marketings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1119, 1121, 1122, 1324Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Suicides . . . 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 149, 150,

1348Sulfur:

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1175Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170, 1171

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Sulfur: —Con.Production and value . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377Sunflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Supermarkets. See Grocery stores.Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . 601, 603, 604,

605, 607, 625, 626States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Supreme Court, U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365Surgeons (See also physicians) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Surgical equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234Surgical procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Organ transplants, facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Outpatient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212, 213

Suriname. See Foreign countries.Swaziland. See Foreign countries.Sweden. See Foreign countries.Sweet potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 1135Swimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 438, 441Swine. See Hogs.Switchboard and switchgear apparatus . . . . . . . . 1271Switzerland. See Foreign countries.Swordfish, imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Symphony orchestras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Synagogues. See Religion.Syphilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224, 227Syria. See Foreign countries.

TTaiwan. See Foreign countries.Tajikistan. See Foreign countries.Talc, pyrophyllite, and soapstone . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Tangelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Tangerines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136Tantalum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Tanzania. See Foreign countries.Target shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Tariff. See Customs receipts.Taxes:

Corporate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855, 857, 863, 864, 865,902

Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741, 742Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859, 860Proprietorships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858

Tax expenditures, revenue loss estimates . . . . . . 544Tax receipts:

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364, 1365Governmental revenue, by type of tax . . . . . 499,

500Motor-fuel taxes and motor-vehicle

fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517, 1025National (internal revenue) . . . . . . . 499, 500, 551

Adjusted gross income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553By type of tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 500Collections by source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551Corporation income tax:

Federal budget receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539Internal revenue collections . . . 550, 551Tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863Tax returns filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550, 863

Employment taxes . . . . . . . . . . . 539, 550, 551Estate and gift taxes . . . . . . . . . 539, 550, 551Excise taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539, 550, 551Individual income tax . . . 499, 500, 515, 539,

550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556Average tax by income level . . . . . . . . 553Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557, 558

Tax receipts: —Con.Property tax:

City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Rates, selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521State and local government . . 499, 500, 506

State and local government:By households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520, 741, 742By type of tax . . . . . . . . . . . 499, 500, 506, 514City government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521, 524, 525County government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527, 528State government . . . . . . . 515, 516, 514, 517Local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Teachers:

Catholic schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288Degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324, 325, 326Employment . . . . . . 268, 269, 306, 315, 316, 672

Newly hired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Private schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289Public schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 268, 269, 275

Experience, and degrees held . . . . . 273, 289Higher education institutions . . . . . . . 306, 314Number . . . . . . . . . . . . 252, 268, 269, 273, 275Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268, 275

Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Technology in schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Telecommunications, equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Telegraph and other communications . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Overseas systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Telephone communication:Cellular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921, 1363Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 918, 919Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 918, 919, 921Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918, 919, 920, 921Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Telephones (see also Telegraph, etc.):Access lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918, 919Consumer price index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Households with service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915, 1215Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918, 919

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363Television broadcasting (see also Cable and other

pay TV services, Public broadcasting stations, andRadio):

Advertising expenditures . . . . 943, 945, 946, 947Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 912Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913, 923Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Public confidence in media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Televisions:Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425, 426Households with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915, 1363Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914, 916

Temperature:Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416, 417, 418, 421States (highs and lows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Temples (fruit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136

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Tennessee. See state data.Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 437, 438, 441, 442Tenure. See Housing and housing units and Farms.Tetanus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Texas. See state data.Textile mill products, manufacturing:

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890Earnings . . . 687, 1233, 1337, 1401, 1402, 1403,

1404Employees . 676, 687, 1233, 1337, 1402, 1403,

1404Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Foreign trade . . . . 1326, 1401, 1402, 1403, 1404Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 1231Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241Shipments . 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240, 1401, 1402,

1403, 1404Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Textile mill products:End-use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . 1247, 1249, 1324, 1326Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248, 1249

Thai population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Thailand. See Foreign countries.Theaters:

Attendance and receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Personal expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425, 914State aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445Theater industry receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Theft. See Crime and criminals.Theology, degrees conferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322, 327Thread. See Yarn, thread, etc.Thrift Savings Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612Timber (see also Lumber and wood products):

Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152, 1153Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155, 1156Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152

World (roundwood) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Removed from national forests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148Roundwood products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152Volume, growth and cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150

Tin:Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

Tires and tubes . . . . . 1035, 1051, 1233, 1234, 1324Titanium:

Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1183Strategic and critical material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Tobacco (see also Tobacco products,manufacturing, and Cigarettes):

Acreage harvested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1129Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945, 946Consumer expenditures . . . . . 733, 734, 735, 736Consumption and use . . . . . . . . . . . 237, 238, 1246

Tobacco (see also Tobacco products,manufacturing, and Cigarettes): —Con.

During pregnancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121, 122Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1119, 1123, 1128, 1324Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 1115, 1128, 1129Production . . . . . . . 1118, 1123, 1128, 1129, 1341Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514, 551

Tobacco products, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 901Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Shipments . . . . . . . . 901, 1233, 1234, 1240, 1238Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Togo. See Foreign countries.Tokyo Nikkei 225 stock market index . . . . . . . . . . 1388Tomatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248, 787, 1111, 1122, 1135Tonga. See Foreign countries.Tonnage, vessels:

Merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092, 1097Ships and tonnage lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098

Tonsillectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Tools. See Cutlery, etc., and Machine tools.Tornadoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Tourism, foreign (see also Travel) . 7, 454, 455, 456,

457Townships and special districts . . . . . . . . . . . . 496, 497Toxic-shock syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Toys and sporting goods:

Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . 945, 946, 947Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Toys and sporting goods, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1486Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1486Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486Shipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233, 1486

Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 441Trade (business). See Commerce, Foreign trade,

Retail trade, and Wholesale trade.Trade, business, and commercial

associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Trailers (campers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037Tranquilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Transit industry. See Passenger transit industry.Transportation (see also Motor vehicles, and

individual modes):Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018, 1074, 1076Carriers of passengers . 1016, 1055, 1056, 1063,

1070Carriers of property . . . 1016, 1061, 1062, 1064,

1065Commodity flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017Consumer complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078Consumer expenditures . 733, 734, 735, 736, 737Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772, 773

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Transportation (see also Motor vehicles, andindividual modes): —Con.

Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362Motor fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773New cars, and new trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Cost indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042, 1047Airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066

Energy consumption . . . . . . . . 951, 952, 953, 954Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013, 1057Federal government:

Aid to state and local governments . . . . . 504Outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538, 543, 992

Freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Government employees and payrolls . . . . . . . 531Government finances . 500, 502, 506, 515, 516,

543Metro areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673, 1073Occupations . . . . . . . . . . 672, 680, 696, 697, 1070Outlays, by type of transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452, 1057Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836, 835Stock and bond prices and yields . . . . . 828, 836Transportation to work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038Travel trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039Travel volume . . . . . . . . . . 1016, 1038, 1070, 1079

Transportation equipment, manufacturing:Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890, 1462-1476Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1233, 1462-1476Employees . . . . . . . . . 676, 687, 1233, 1462-1476Energy consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . 1318, 1326, 1462-1476Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707, 708Producer prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779, 780Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688, 1241, 1375Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898, 901Research and development . . . . . 997, 998, 1000Shipments . 1233, 1234, 1238, 1240, 1462-1476Toxic chemical releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Value added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Transportation, communications, and public utilitiesindustry (see also individual industries):

Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835, 890, 892Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194

Cost indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192Earnings . . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 867, 868, 869,

1014, 1015, 1337Employees . 662, 675, 676, 685, 686, 687, 867,

868, 869, 874, 1014, 1015, 1029, 1337Establishments . 867, 868, 869, 874, 1014, 1337Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857, 1014Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716, 720Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . 449, 856, 859, 864, 898, 903Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Travel:Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 1018

Air carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074, 1076Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945, 946Business, pleasure travelers . . . . . . . . . . . 450, 451

Travel: —Con.Domestic expenditures by state . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 454, 455, 456, 1392Highway mileage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020, 1047Nonimmigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454, 455, 1070, 1079Recreation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450, 451Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317Tourists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 454, 455, 456Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016, 1070, 1079, 1341

Travel arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450, 451, 1057Travelers checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826Treasury bonds:

Foreign purchases and sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834Sales, prices, and yields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828, 829

Tribes, American Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Trichinosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Trinidad and Tobago. See Foreign countries.Tripoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Trips. See Travel.Truck profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054Trucking and warehousing (see also Motor vehicles,

Transportation, and Trucks):Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058, 1061Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Trucks:Factory sales (trucks and buses) . . . 1030, 1282Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030, 1031Motor-fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053Registration (trucks and buses) . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Retail sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031Traffic fatalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045Travel and speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054

Trust funds, U.S. government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224, 227

Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312Consumer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Tularemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Tuna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161, 1164

Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Consumption, canned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163

Tungsten:Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175Production and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Strategic and critical material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Tunisia. See Foreign countries.Turbines. See Steam engines.Turkey. See Foreign countries.Turkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787, 1111, 1137, 1146Turkmenistan. See Foreign countries.Turks and Caicos Islands. See Foreign countries.Tuvalu. See Foreign countries.Typhoid fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Typhus fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

UUganda. See Foreign countries.Ukraine. See Foreign countries.

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Ulcer of stomach and duodenum:Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138, 139Prevalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Ultrasound, diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Unemployment. See Labor force, unemployed

workers.Unemployment insurance:

Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604, 618, 619Coverage, workers and earnings . . . . . . . . . . . 618Governmental finances . . . . . 506, 514, 539, 540Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 603, 618, 619Private expenditures for supplemental insurance .

602Unincorporated enterprises, flow of funds . . . . . . 796Unions. See Labor organizations or unions.United Arab Emirates. See Foreign countries.United Kingdom. See Foreign countries.United States securities (see also Debt):

Foreign purchases and sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834Held by banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796, 806Holdings by households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796, 797Prices, sales, and yields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828Taxable yields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

Universities. See Education, higher educationinstitutions.

Uranium (see also Nuclear power) . 978, 1168, 1169,1189

Urban population. See Population.Uruguay. See Foreign countries.Utah. See state data.Utilities (see also Gas utility industry and Electric

light and power industry):Advertising expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Electric supply systems and generating plants,

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974Production indexes, manufacture . . . . . . . . . . 1241

Uzbekistan. See Foreign countries.

VVacancy rates:

Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266Office buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227, 1230

Value added (see also individual manufacturing andmining industries):

All industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236

Vanadium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169, 1173, 1175Vanuatu. See Foreign countries.Veal (see also Beef and Meat and meat

products) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1137Vegetable oils. See Oils.Vegetables (see also individual commodities):

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Consumer expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 733, 734, 735Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244, 248, 1122, 1133Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1112Foreign trade . . . . 1119, 1121, 1122, 1124, 1133,

1324Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773, 779, 1115Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118, 1133, 1135, 1380

Vehicles. See Motor vehicles, Tractors, etc.Venereal diseases (see also AIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Venezuela. See Foreign countries.Venture capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883Vermiculite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168, 1169Vermont. See state data.

Vessels. See Ships.Veteran, patriotic associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295Veterans Affairs, Dept. of:

Budget outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Home loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598, 816, 819Land and buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566Medical centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Veterans:Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 595, 596

Hospital, medical care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592, 593Pensions and other benefits:

Disability, service-connected compensation .594

Disbursements . . . . . 567, 596, 599, 601, 603Education and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598Federal aid to state and local

governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504Health expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164, 167Hospital or domiciliary care . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597Life insurance funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Loans guaranteed and insured . . . . . . . . . 598Veterans or dependents receiving . 594, 596,

598, 604Vetoed bills, Congressional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471VCR’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915, 1268Video games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914Vietnam. See Foreign countries.Vietnamese population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Violent crime. See Crime.Virgin Islands. See Outlying areas of the U.S.Virginia. See state data.Vision devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Visual arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447Visual impairment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218, 231, 670Vital statistics (see also Births and Deaths):

Fertility and fertility rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Foreign countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345Life expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 129, 130Marriage and divorce . . . 92, 156, 157, 158, 159,

160, 163, 1346Outlying areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Rates, summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 106World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345

Vitamins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Vocational education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504, 598Vocational rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601, 623

Medical payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Volleyball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 438, 441Volunteer workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444, 638Voter registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 483, 487Voter turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482, 483, 486Votes:

Congressional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463, 464, 465, 486Gubernatorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474Presidential . 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 482, 486

Voting-age population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483, 484, 486

WWage earners. See Labor force, employment, and

earnings, and individual industries.Wages and wage rates. See Earnings.Wallis and Futuna. See Foreign countries.Walnuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1136Warehouses (see also Trucking) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058

Energy characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958

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Warehouses (see also Trucking) —Con.Floor space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228, 1229

Wars, U.S. troops and casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Washing machines, homes with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Washington. See state data.Wastepaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155Wastewater treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397, 409, 410Watches. See Clocks and watches, etc.Water (see also Water transportation services and

wastewater treatment):Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 387, 388Pollution:

Oil spills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396, 1096Rivers and streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395Toxic releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971, 982Public supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394, 1211, 1215Wastewater treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . 397, 409, 410

Watermelons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111, 1135Water polo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Water skiing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Water transportation services:

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1069, 1337Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687, 1015, 1069, 1337Establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069, 1337Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091Freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013, 1016, 1090, 1091Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708, 1018Outlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543, 1000, 1089

Wealth:Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767, 768Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Weather . . . . . . . . . 412, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421Weights , average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Welfare services. See Social welfare; Public aid,

assistance; and individual programs.West Bank. See Foreign countries.West Virginia. See state data.Western Sahara. See Foreign countries.Western Samoa. See Foreign countries.Wheat:

Acreage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1131,Farm marketings, sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Farm prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128, 1131Foreign trade . . . . 1119, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1128,

1324, 1384Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1128, 1131

World production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1380Supply and disappearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Wheat flour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1341Wheelchair usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218, 232Whiskey (see also Alcoholic beverages) . 249, 1245White-collar workers:

Employment cost index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698State and local government workers . . . . . . . . 532

Whiting, quantity and value of catch . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Wholesale trade:

Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892Companies exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322Drug testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Earnings . . . . 685, 687, 691, 692, 867, 868, 869,

1293, 1337, 1339Employees . 662, 675, 676, 685, 687, 867, 868,

869, 874, 1293, 1337, 1339

Wholesale trade: —Con.Establishments . 867, 868, 869, 874, 1293, 1337,

1339Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879Foreign investments in U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308Gross domestic product . . . . . . . . . 716, 720, 1274Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292Mergers and acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Multinational companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907, 908Occupational safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856, 869Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292, 1293, 1339

Whooping cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Wildlife:

Endangered species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411Relates recreation activities . . . . . . . . . . . 433, 434

Wilshire equity index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836Wind:

Energy source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984Selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984

Wind surfing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Wines (see also Alcoholic beverages) . . . 249, 1121,

1341Wiretaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359Wisconsin. See state data.Women:

Abortions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 116, 124, 125, 126Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Advanced placement exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 226Births and birth rates . 92, 93, 94, 99, 101, 104,

105, 108, 109, 110, 115, 116, 1345, 1347Births to single women . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 1347Cesarean section deliveries . . . . . . . 105, 208Characteristics, selected . 94, 108, 109, 110First births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Business owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Cigarette smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121, 122, 238Child day care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634Child support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632Chronic conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Cohabitation experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65Computer use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Contraceptive use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Criminal victimization rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Deaths and death rates . 131, 132, 140, 142, 144,

145, 146, 149Delivery procedures, births . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 208Dental visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Disability days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Disability status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Education:

Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334American College Testing program . . . . . 291Attainment . . . . 260, 262, 298, 299, 301, 322

Labor force status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299College enrollment . 252, 259, 301, 302, 303,

306, 320, 1002By age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302By state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

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Women: —Con.Degrees conferred . 322, 323, 324, 325, 326,

327, 1004Enrollment by level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259High school dropouts . . . . . . . . . 296, 298, 299Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273, 289, 315, 672SAT tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Elections, voter registration and turnout . . . . 483Fertility, fertility rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 98, 110Gynecological services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198, 208Health insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Height distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Hispanic origin population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Home health and hospice care . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Homicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149, 341Hospital use . . . . . . . . . . . 205, 206, 207, 208, 210Householders . 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 77, 80, 81, 82,

83, 87Illness/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221, 229Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916, 917Labor force and employment:

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645, 647Children in preprimary school . . . . . . . . . . . 267Displaced workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696, 697Educational attainment . . . . . . . 648, 674, 681Employed . 646, 649, 651, 654, 658, 660, 662,

663, 664, 665, 666, 667, 672, 674, 675Flexible work schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672, 674, 696, 697Marital status . . . . . . . . . . . 652, 653, 654, 655Participation rates . 645, 646, 648, 649, 652,

653, 654, 655Persons working at home . . . . . . . . . 662, 663Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645Reason not in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671School enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651Self-employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661, 662States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Tenure with employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667Unemployed . 646, 649, 651, 654, 677, 678,

679, 680, 681, 682Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Work managements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Life expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 129, 130Mammography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Marital status . . . 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 162Marriage and divorce . 156, 158, 159, 160, 161,

163Music purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430Nursing home residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Osteoporosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Overweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242, 243Pension plan coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616Persons living alone (one-person

households) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Physical activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Visits to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 195Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 14, 16Pregnancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 116

Women: —Con.Property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226Public officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472, 477Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335, 336, 337, 338, 342Recreational activities . 438, 439, 443, 444, 446,

447Social Security beneficiaries and payments . 610Sports participation in school . . . . . 435, 440, 441Substance abuse clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Surgical procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208, 213Unemployment . . . 646, 649, 651, 654, 677, 678,

679, 680, 681, 682Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678, 682

Union membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638Voter registration and turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Weight distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Wood and wood products. See Lumber and woodproducts.

Woodpulp (see also Paper and paper products):Consumption/output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153Producer price indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341

Work stoppages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711Workers. See Employment and labor force.Workers’ compensation program . 164, 601, 603, 604,

620, 621Workstations. See computers.World summary statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186, 1341

Armed forces personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396Comparative data (area, population, etc.) . 1343,

1344Deaths and death rates, cause . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961, 962Exports of manufactures, U.S. comparison . 1244Farm commodities . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123, 1380, 1383Merchant vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097, 1099Military expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574, 1395Mineral production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184, 1186Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340, 1341, 1343, 1344Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1342

Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435, 441Wyoming. See state data.

YYemen. See Foreign countries.Yogurt consumption/production . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 1143Youth employment programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Yugoslavia. See Foreign countries.

ZZambia. See Foreign countries.Zimbabwe. See Foreign countries.Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324

Foreign trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175, 1324Mining industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171Production and value (mine and smelter) . 1168,

1169, 1173World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173, 1377

Strategic and critical materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

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