June 30, 2006

Population

Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2003. Report available online in PDF providing national level 10-year trends of child-support income received by parents with children whose other parent lives elsewhere. It also examines other support the children received, such as health insurance and noncash assistance.

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.

Financing the Future: 2001-2002. Internet files providing data on the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of college students and the costs and financing associated with their schooling during the 2001-2002 academic year.

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.

Economic Indicators

Construction Spending (Put-in-Place): May 2006. Press release showing estimates of the value of total new construction put in place by type of construction (residential and non-residential) annual value, and by type of owner (private and public). Scheduled for release July 3, 2006.

Full Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders: May 2006. Press release showing information on key business indicators. Revised durable goods totals, in addition to nondurable goods manufacturers' shipments, inventories, and orders. Scheduled for release July 5, 2006.

Monthly Wholesale Trade: May 2006. Press release showing estimates for sales, inventories on a non-LIFO ("last in-first out") basis, and stock-sales ratios for merchant wholesalers by three-digit major kind-of-business groups. Scheduled for release July 10, 2006.

Quarterly Financial Report for Retail Trade: 1st Quarter 2006. Press release shows second quarter sales of large retail trade corporations. Includes large U.S. retailers' after-tax profits. Scheduled for release July 11, 2006.

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: May 2006. Press release showing monthly exports, general imports (including data by country), and limited data on imports for consumption. Scheduled for release July 12, 2006.

Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services: June 2006. Press release presenting advance monthly estimates of retail store sales by kind-of-business groups. Report includes seasonally adjusted estimates and percentage changes for major kind-of-business groups. Scheduled for release July 14, 2006.

Manufacturing and Trade: Inventories and Sales: May 2006. Press release showing sales, inventories, and inventories-to-sales ratios for the combined domestic activities of retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. Scheduled for release July 14, 2006.

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.

Facts for Features:

Back to School. Summer's fleeting and, the Census Bureau is already looking ahead to the close of the traditional summer break. This factsheet presents statistics from the Census Bureau's demographic and economic subject areas pertaining to teachers, students, and the reopening of our country's schools.

Labor Day. The first Labor Day observance was in 1882, and Congress made it a federal holiday in 1894. The Census Bureau spotlights our nation's workforce through this array of data and statistics from our demographic subject area.

Grandparents Day. Data from the Census Bureau's demographic subject area highlighting these unsung role models and caregivers.

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