July 28, 2006

Population

First Wave of 2005 Data From American Community Survey. Extensive data on demographic and socioeconomic topics available in the American FactFinder for areas of 65,000 or more. Available mid-August.

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2005. Annual Internet files 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.

State and County Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin: July 1, 2005. Population estimates by these demographic characteristics for the nation's states and counties.

Economic Census and Surveys

"On the Map" Interactive Online Tool. Three more states join "On the Map" (16 states are currently available), an interactive mapping application that shows where people work and live with companion reports on their age, earnings and industry distributions. "On the Map" is a component of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership between the Census Bureau and state labor market information agencies. LED supplies statistics on employment, job creation, turnover, earnings by industry, age, and sex, and provides dynamic information on the rapidly changing economy.

Economic Indicators

Construction Spending (Put-in-Place): June 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 August 1, 2006.

Full Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders: June 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 August 3, 2006.

Monthly Wholesale Trade: June 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 August 9, 2006.

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: June 2006. Press release showing monthly exports, general imports (including data by country), and limited data on imports for consumption. Scheduled for release August 10, 2006.

Reference and Compendia

Facts for Features: Unmarried and Single Americans Week (Sept 17-23). The third full week of September is dedicated to the approximately 90 million unattached Americans. The Census Bureau presents statistics about this group, comprising about 41 percent of all U.S. residents age 18 and older.

Facts for Features: Special Edition: 300 Million. To commemorate the expected historic milestone of the nation's population reaching 300 million later this year, this collection of statistics compares life today to 1967, when the population reached 200 million, and to 1915, when it reached 100 million.

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