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Mining the Census Bureau Information Goldmine

The Census Bureau maintaines a wealth of information and resources for you to use in your business marketing and planning and for supporting the interests of your customers and clients.  Here are some examples...
 

For help in finding the most recent information click here for the link to the lastest U.S. Census Bureau Tip Sheet of recently released information that was published by the bureau or of near future events.
 
Census Bureau and HUD have released National Housing Characteristic data: Current release
 
For an updated extensive report of the Business Patterns by County for all United States. It is available for download in pdf format...   for example, click here to download the New Jersey 2004 report.
 
For the annual survey of state and local government employment and payroll click here for full details, including prior year reports.
 
Profile America is a daily, 60-second feature that uses interesting vignettes from key events, observances or commemorations for that day to highlight information collected by the Census Bureau. These features can be heard or downloaded in the mp3 format. Click here to access the index.
 
The U.S. Census Bureau has a web information facility, called "American Factfinder", which is a source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data, including data sets, maps and other detailed data compiled by the Census Bureau.

The Economic census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level. Fifty-seven reports for several industry sectors - all at the national level - are now being issued on a flow basis. These reports include information such as product shipments by contributing industries. All 883 geographic area series reports and 651 industry reports have been published. Click here for the 2002 Economic Census Reports.
 
The report, Disability and American Families: 2000 [pdf], provides information on disability prevalence in families at the national, regional and state levels. It presents data on family income, employment status of the family householder and poverty status of the families with a member who has a disability. the report also has information on families who raise children with disabilities. Lmited data by race and Hispanic origin also are included.

The Census report "Characteristics of New Housing 2005" is available online at: http://www.census.gov/const/www/charindex.html 
 
Facts for Features and Special Editions consist of collections of statistics from the census bureau's demographic and economic subject areas intended to commemorate anniversaries or observances or to provide background information for topics in the news.

This just scratches the surface of the vast amount of accumulated data, analysis reports, interesting facts and figures that the government has acquired through the use of you tax dollars and are available for your use.
 
 
 
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