This classic reference annual compiles information on key demographic and economic data for all U.S. states, counties, and metropolitan areas, and this new historical edition covers 1790-2010. The tabular layout is similar to the regular editions, featuring a variety of tables that give the user a snapshot of statistical information on a wide variety of topics, such as population changes ... Read morethrough the decades and information on census coverage by state. Suitable for most reference collections, and a good addition to libraries owning previous volumes.
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Using information from the US Census, the Census Bureau's two-volume Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, and smaller bureau publications, this title supplies data from the earliest days of the republic into the early twenty-first century. . . .This handy reference compiles a wealth of data in one place; the graphs, tables, charts, and notes and definitions facilitate both use and comprehension.
American Reference Books Annual
Exceptionally comprehensive and thoroughly 'user friendly', County and City Extra: Special Historical Edition, 1790-2010 is an essential and critically important addition to professional, governmental, corporate, NGO, community, and academic library American Demographic Studies and American Economic Studies reference collections.
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