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Index A Abortions ................... 115, 116, 124, 125, 126 Abrasives, stone ........................ 1168, 1169 Accidents and fatalities ..... 221, 1018, 1041, 1042, 1047, 1063 Age of driver ............................... 1049 Aircraft .................. 148, 1018, 1074, 1076 Alcohol involvement ....................... 1048 Costs ....................................... 223 Deaths and death rates . 136, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 148, 1041, 1042, 1047, 1063 Foreign countries ...................... 1348 Infants .................................. 136 Drownings .................................. 148 Falls ........................................ 148 Fires ........................................ 386 Industrial .................... 705, 706, 707, 708 Injuries ................................. 221, 222 Motor vehicles ....... 138, 139, 141, 148, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046, 1047, 1362 Motorcycle ................................. 1041 Police officers assaulted, killed ............. 364 Railroad ................................... 1063 Tanker casualties .......................... 1096 Transportation ........................ 148, 1018 Work fatalities ......................... 709, 710 Work time lost .............................. 706 Accountants and auditors ....................... 672 Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping: Earnings ............................ 1296, 1297 Employees .......................... 1296, 1297 Establishments ...................... 1296, 1297 Receipts ............................ 1296, 1298 Acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) . 138, 144, 224, 225, 226, 227 Acquisition of territory by the U.S ......... 388, 389 Actors ........................................... 672 Adult education ................................. 334 Advertising: Earnings ....................... 687, 1296, 1297 Employees ............... 675, 687, 1296, 1297 Establishments ...................... 1296, 1297 Mergers and acquisitions ................... 885 Receipts ....................... 885, 1296, 1298 Aerobics .............................. 438, 439, 443 Aeronautics, civil. See Air transportation. Aerospace industry: Capital ........................ 1469, 1470, 1471 Earnings ................................... 1083 Employees ...... 1080, 1083, 1469, 1470, 1471 Foreign trade .............................. 1087 New orders, backlog ....................... 1084 Profits ...................................... 1086 Sales .......................... 901, 1084, 1085 Shipments .................... 1469, 1470, 1471 Afghanistan. See Foreign countries. Africa. See Foreign countries. Age of population. See Population. Aggravated assault ........ 335, 336, 337, 338, 355 Agricultural implements and machinery industry . 1233 Agricultural loans. See Farm mortgage loans. Agricultural nonprofit associations ............. 1295 Agricultural products. See Farms and individual products. Agricultural sciences: Degrees conferred ...... 322, 324, 325, 326, 1004 Agricultural services: Employees ............. 675, 676, 867, 868, 874 Establishments ................... 867, 868, 874 Agriculture (see also Farms and Farmers and farm workers): Advertising expenditures .................... 946 Employees .................................. 672 Federal aid to state and local governments . 504 Foreign trade ........... 1120, 1121, 1124, 1125 Value added ............................... 1110 Agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry: Earnings ........................ 691, 869, 1337 Employees ................. 675, 676, 869, 1337 Establishments ....................... 869, 1337 Failures ..................................... 879 Finances ............................... 856, 857 Gross domestic product ................... 1147 Health insurance coverage, employees . 183, 184 Mergers and acquisitions ................... 885 Occupational safety ................... 705, 708 Profits ................................. 856, 903 Receipts ............................... 857, 869 Sales, 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, 1223 Shipments ................................. 1263 Air Force, Department of, personnel ............ 586 Air pollution: Air pollution control equipment ........ 408, 409, 410, 1272 Emissions . . 398, 399, 400, 401, 404, 405, 1350 Greenhouse gases .......................... 401 Industry ..................................... 408 Air traffic control specialists .................... 1080 Air transportation: Accidents and deaths . . . 148, 1018, 1074, 1076 Airline markets ............................. 1073 Airport summary .................... 1072, 1077 Flight on-time performance ............ 1077 Bomb threats .............................. 1075 Civil aviation ........................ 1080, 1341 Consumer complaints ..................... 1078 Cost indexes ............................... 1071 Employees ................................. 1070 Federal outlays ............................. 537 Table Table NOTE: Index citations refer to table numbers, not page numbers. 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Index

A

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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