Archive for the ‘Statistics’ Category
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Movie, Video Revenue Climb 7 Percent to $66 Billion in 2007
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Revenue for the motion picture and video production and distribution industry increased 7 percent in 2007, reaching $66 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Revenue from Web search portals increased 25 percent for a total revenue of $12.1 billion, and their online advertising space grew 32.7 percent with total revenue of $8.7 billion.
These new data come from the 2007 Service Annual Survey: Information Sector Services, a series of tables that is part of a larger survey that tracks economic activity in the services sector, which accounts for 55 percent of economic activity in the United States. This sector includes companies that produce and distribute information and cultural products, as well as companies that provide the means to transmit or distribute these products.
“Whether online news or a wireless signal for a mobile phone, the unique products that make up the information services sector play a significant role in our everyday lives,” said Mark Wallace, chief of the Census Bureau’s Service Sector Statistics Division. “Not only does this survey provide us with information, but it also demonstrates how profoundly this sector contributes to our overall economy.”
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The UNECE Statistical Database contains a wide range of data covering Europe, North America and Central Asia. Users can download data free of charge via English or Russian interfaces.
Sections include:
+ Country Overviews
+ Economic Statistics
+ Forestry Statistics
+ Gender Statistics
+ Transport Statistics
+ The UNECE “Data Locator”
Direct to UNECE Database>
Source: UNECE
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2008 Edition)
From Introduction and Highlights (PDF; 37 KB):
The past several decades have been marked by notable changes in women’s labor force activities. Since the 1970s, women’s labor force participation has risen substantially, particularly among women with children, and a larger share of women work full time and year round than ever before. In addition, women have increasingly attained higher levels of education: among women ages 25 to 64 who are in the labor force, the proportion with a college degree more than tripled from 1970 to 2007. Women’s earnings as a proportion of men’s also have grown over time. In 1979, women working full time earned 62 percent of what men did; in 2007, women’s earnings were 80 percent of men’s.
This report presents historical and current labor force and earnings data for women and men from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unless otherwise noted, data are annual averages from the CPS. Users should note that the comparisons of earnings in this report are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be significant in explaining earnings differences. For a detailed description of the source of the data and an explanation of concepts and definitions used, see the Technical Note at the end of this report.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
USDA: State Fact Sheets
State fact sheets provide information on population, employment, income, farm characteristics, farm financial indicators, and top commodities, exports, and counties for each state in the United States.
Data last updated on December 15, 2008.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Briefing Room: Child Nutrition Programs
The Child Nutrition Programs briefing room provides a central point for obtaining information about the four major domestic food assistance programs that USDA administers, exclusively or primarily serving the nutritional needs of children—the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program. In addition, the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program provides fruit and vegetable snacks free to children in schools in selected States and Indian reservations. The briefing room highlights research, publications, and data related to child nutrition programs.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
From an e-mail alert:
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive source of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information. For more than 60 years, NTIS has served as an innovative resource to Federal agencies, businesses and universities looking for high-caliber information. Now NTIS users can subscribe to any of the 39 RSS Feeds of information about technical documents recently added to the collection of almost 3 million information products.
While you can find information on virtually any subject on the web, there’s no guarantee that the information is accurate – or that it has been published by a legitimate source. NTIS undergoes a rigorous process to ensure that all the information we offer is authentic and credible. This integrity, along with the breadth and depth of our collection, is why NTIS is regarded as the nation’s preeminent source of government scientific information.
NTIS classifies citations into 39 subject categories. Each of these subject categories is divided into subcategories. This method provides sorting categories for both hard and soft sciences.
The feeds are updated every two weeks.
Here’s a complete list of feeds organized by category.
Source: National Technical Information Service
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2006 and 2007
These tables provide estimates of income and poverty for states and counties, as well as estimates of poverty and population for school districts, median household income and poverty rates of various age groups. SAIPE provides annual updates for the administration of federal programs and the allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions. Internet address: <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/index.html>.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
American Community Survey Gives Midsized Areas Their First Detailed Update Since 2000
New data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau give more than 2,500 midsized counties, cities and towns [Excel] nationwide (those with populations between 20,000 and 64,999) their first statistical “portrait” since the 2000 Census on a wide range of key socioeconomic and housing topics.
These are the first American Community Survey (ACS) estimates that combine three years of survey responses (2005-2007) to produce data. The technique makes it possible to release a new set of multiyear estimates annually for smaller geographic areas. The three-year data can produce estimates for areas with populations as small as 20,000.
“Today’s release represents an important milestone for data users everywhere,” said Census Bureau Director Steve H. Murdock. “Communities are no longer limited to a once-a-decade look at their population’s characteristics. The ACS’s multiyear data will allow small towns and communities to track how they are changing on an ongoing basis.”
Also released today are three-year estimates for areas with populations of 65,000 or more. The Census Bureau released single-year data for these larger areas in September.
The data are of particular interest to areas that have experienced significant population growth or change since the 2000 Census. Some of the highlights among the top 20 fastest-growing midsized counties [Excel] since 2000…
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
FBI Releases 2008-2009 Facts and Figures Report
Today, the FBI released its 2008-2009 Facts and Figures report titled Today’s FBI: Celebrating a Century of Service. This informative, 60-page pictorial reference book provides an overview of the FBI’s mission, priorities, capabilities, history, and general facts and statistics. This resource is available online for the general public, civic leaders, law enforcement colleagues, community outreach partners, and others with an interest in learning about the FBI. Both a web-based text version and a printable pdf version of the report can be found on www.fbi.gov.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
PRB’s DataFinder Updated and Expanded
Guinea-Bissau and Liberia have the world’s highest birth rates, but India produces the most births—because of India’s combination of moderately high fertility and 1 billion-plus population size. These are a few facts users can find through PRB’s searchable database, DataFinder, which has just been updated with the 2008 World Population Data Sheet
DataFinder includes 143 variables for more than 200 countries and 29 world regions and subregions. Users can select a combination of countries or regions to be ranked on a specific variable or to compare on several variables. User-created tables can be downloaded as Excel files to use for further analysis. Rates and values can be displayed on world maps, revealing geographic patterns of demographic, health, or environment variables.
Source: Population Reference Bureau
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
National Endowment for the Arts Issues Research Note on Women Artists: 1990 to 2005
A new National Endowment for the Arts research note shows that women are making gains in traditionally male artist occupations, but still earn less than male artists. Women Artists: 1990-2005 takes a closer look at female artist employment trends that were previously mentioned in the May 2008 NEA report Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.
Totaling almost 919,000 artists in 2005, women represented 46 percent of the artist labor force, comparable to their percentage of all civilian workers. The note reveals significant patterns in pay disparity, demographic and educational trends, and women’s advancement in various art fields over the past 15 years. This note draws on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2003-2005 American Community Surveys (ACS), along with the 1990 and 2000 population censuses.
+ Full Document (PDF; 1.3 MB)
Source: NEA
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Census Bureau Announces a New Product for Tracking Business Activity
The U.S. Census Bureau announces the release of the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), a data series that allows users to track annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses at the establishment level.
There are more than 6 million establishments with paid employees in the United States. These businesses are dynamic: opening and closing, adding and losing employees.
The BDS monitors this activity, tracking annual job creation and destruction at the establishment level using elements not found in similar databases, such as firm age and size. Tracking by firm age, for example, allows users to distinguish between new establishments of new firms and new establishments of mature firms. These statistics are crucial to understanding current and historical entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
2007 Records Fifth Consecutive Annual Increase in U.S. Doctoral Awards
U.S. institutions awarded 48,079 doctorates in 2007, the highest number ever reported by the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and an increase of 5.4% over 2006. This is the fifth consecutive annual increase in U.S. doctoral awards (table 1).
Source: National Science Foundation
Also available as PDF.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
By Degrees: A Big Year for History
History departments conferred an almost unprecedented number of undergraduate degrees in 2005–06. The U.S. Department of Education reports that American colleges and universities conferred 33,153 new baccalaureate degrees—a 5.6 percent increase from the year before. This marked the largest number of degrees conferred in the discipline, with the exception of a few years at the peak of the baby boom.
Source: American Historical Association
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
North American Transportation Statistics
From Introduction:
Statistics On-Line Database presents information on transportation and transportation-related activities among Canada, the United States and Mexico, both within individual countries and between the countries. This database, presented in French, English, and Spanish is, accessible in table and time series formats, and covers twelve thematic areas, including transportation and the economy, transportation safety, transportation’s impact on energy and the environment, passenger and freight activity, and transportation and trade.
This On-Line Database currently contains 31 tables with additions planned for the future, and allows users to obtain both value data in any of the three national currencies and volume data in metric or U.S. measurement units via the time series function. Data in table or time series format can be printed or downloaded for further processing and analysis. For most tables, data are available for 1990, 1995 to 2004. The data will be updated on a regular basis, thus a few tables already contain more recent data.
The On-Line Database updates a subset of tables and figures from the North American Transportation in Figures report published in 2000. The report, also released in French, English and Spanish, includes data for 1990, 1995 and 1996, with value data reported only in current U.S. dollars and all measurement units in metric.
Source: Statistics Canada and Transport Canada from Canada; the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) (Ministry of Communications and Transportation), the Instituto Mexicano del Transporte (IMT) (Mexican Institute of Transportation) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) (National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics) from Mexico; and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the U.S. Census Bureau from the United States.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
New Web Site Provides Info on Adopting Children from Other Countries
In recognition of National Adoption Month, the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs has launched Adoption.state.gov, a new Web site devoted exclusively to intercountry adoption.
Last year alone, Americans adopted more than 17,000 children from abroad. Adoption.state.gov will provide adopting parents with the answers and information they need. The site includes step-by-step instructions for adopting a child from another country, and a new publication for adoptive parents, “Intercountry Adoption from A to Z.”
Adoption.state.gov provides a central resource for adopting parents, adoption agencies, and others involved in the intercountry adoption process. Prospective parents will find country specific information and background about the Hague Adoption Convention on the Web site.
Adoption.state.gov also includes information such as who is eligible to adopt, from which countries Americans adopt children, what protections the Hague Adoption Convention provides families, when an organization needs to renew its accreditation, and advice to prospective parents about selecting an accredited adoption agency. The site also provides information for foreign citizens who are interested in adopting American children.
+ Fiscal Year 2008 Adoption Statistics (PDF; 126 KB)
Source: U.S. Department of State
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Spotlight on Statistics: Thanksgiving
What activities do you have planned for this Thanksgiving? Perhaps cooking and enjoying a meal with family or friends, playing sports or watching sports on television, doing volunteer work, or shopping? Here’s a look at some BLS data behind those Thanksgiving scenes.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
SLA — 2008 Salary Survey & Workplace Study
The 2008 SLA Salary Survey results show that the average salary increases for SLA members have again outpaced inflation. Based on salaries as of April 1, the mean percent increase in salaries for 2008 over 2007 was 5.3% for U.S. based respondents. This is slightly higher (0.2%) than the mean percent increase from 2006 to 2007. For the same 12 month period, the Consumer Price Index rose less than 4%. Salaries for Canadian members were 5.4% higher on April 1, 2008, than a year earlier, while the CPI had increased just less than 4% in the same period.
The average salary for U.S. members who answered the survey was $71,812, compared with $69,426 in 2007 and $67,400 in 2006. The mean for Canadian members was Can$ 69,971 compared with Can$ 67,171 in 2007 and Can$ $65,522 in 2006.
The SLA Salary Survey also includes data from members of SLA Europe. These data are separated into two categories: U.K. and other European members. The average salary for U.K. respondents was £42,674, with a reported increase of 4.2% over the previous year. For other European members, the average salary was €64,986, an increase of 7.0% from 2007.
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More information on the survey results and workplace study will be available in the Information Management column of the December 2008 issue of Information Outlook.
Full survey available for purchase.
Source: Special Libraries Association
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Credit card industry facts, debt statistics 2006-2008
This page contains credit card-related statistics — including statistics on credit card debt, credit card delinquencies, credit scores, credit card interest rates, bankruptcies and more — compiled by the CreditCards.com staff. Statistics on this page will be updated regularly as we receive new or updated credit card data.(Note: Some data may appear multiple times on the page because the information is applicable in multiple categories.)
Source: CreditCards.com
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
U.S. Catholic Population by State, 2008
“…here is a list of states with their population and percentage who are Catholics according to the 2008 Official Catholic Directory.”
Source: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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