June 15, 2006

Population

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2005. Tables-only annual update from the Current Population Survey, with national and state data on educational attainment. Also included are earnings data by level of education and statistics by race and Hispanic origin.

Geographical Mobility: 2005. Internet files containing national and regional information on how often and how far people move, along with characteristics of the movers and reasons why they move.

Poverty Status of Families by Type and by U.S. Citizenship Status of the Householder: 2003. Four national-level tables from the American Community Survey present poverty data on the foreign-born by the citizenship status, year of entry, region of birth, and family type.

Subcounty Population Estimates: July 1, 2005. Internet files showing estimated population of the nation's incorporated places - cities, towns, villages and boroughs.

Economic Indicators

New Residential Construction: May 2006. Press release showing data for housing starts, completions, and building permits.

Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders: May 2006. Press release showing advance information on key business indicators.

New Residential Sales: May 2006. Press release reporting new one-family houses sold and for sale. Shows sales prices, months on the market, and stage of construction.

Economic Census and Surveys

2004 County Business Patterns. Downloadable Internet files and reports available online in PDF providing data on number of business establishments, number of employees, payroll, and employment-size class. The data are provided at various geographic levels, including state, county, and metropolitan statistical area.

Survey of Business Owners: Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-Owned Firms: 2002. Report on the state of these businesses from a survey conducted every five years. Statistics are shown separately for businesses with and without paid employees. The report includes data on sales and receipts for the nation, states and local areas with 100 or more Native Hawaiian- and other Pacific Islander-owned businesses. Also, data on business ownership for major, individual Pacific Islander groups are included. Due to limitations, publications of data will be withheld at many levels of geography.

Survey of Business Owners: American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Firms: 2002. Report on the state of these businesses from a survey conducted every five years. Statistics are shown separately for businesses with and without paid employees. The report includes data on sales and receipts for the nation, states and local areas with 100 or more American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses. The 2002 survey did not include tribal-owned businesses -considered to be government entities - so the data are not directly comparable to those collected in the 1997 survey.

Housing

2005 American Housing Survey National Public Use Microdata File. Microdata (i.e., household records with identifying information removed) from this survey enable users to generate their own tabulations on a wide range of housing topics; e.g., housing costs, satisfaction with neighborhood and the frequency of repairs made. The file consists of records of individual responses to the survey, with identifying information removed. Also available in statistical tabulations and as PDF reports.

Reference and Compendia

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book. Advance tables from the publication will be available in downloadable spreadsheet format and Adobe Acrobat PDFs. The data book is a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the state and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and micropolitan areas are also included. More information, including ranking tables, will be made available in both downloadable spreadsheet format with the printed versions of the book later this summer.

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