Statistical Abstract of the United States, Volume 111

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991
 

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Page 4 - Shelter-and-StreetNight" operation, see Appendix D, Collection and Processing Procedures.) HISPANIC ORIGIN The data on Spanish/Hispanic origin were derived from answers to questionnaire item 7, which was asked of all persons. Persons of Hispanic origin are those who classified themselves in one of the specific Hispanic origin categories listed on the questionnaire— "Mexican," "Puerto Rican," or "Cuban"— as well as those who indicated that they were of "other Spanish/Hispanic
Page 412 - Wages and salaries of employees plus employers' contributions for social insurance and private benefit plans.
Page 335 - The purpose of the reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency...
Page 426 - ... some farm families receive noncash benefits in the form of rent-free housing and goods produced and consumed on the farm; or that noncash benefits are also received by some nonfarm residents which often take the form of the use of business transportation and facilities, full or partial payments by business for retirement programs, medical and educational expenses, etc. These elements should be considered when comparing income levels. For data on noncash benefits, see section 12.
Page 470 - Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices among cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
Page 387 - New England Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut Middle Atlantic New York New Jersey Pennsylvania East North Central Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin West North Central Minnesota Iowa Missouri...
Page 320 - tax expenditures" means those revenue losses attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability; and the term "tax expenditures budget" means an enumeration of such tax expenditures.
Page 5 - A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall.
Page 469 - Prices used in constructing the index are collected from sellers and generally apply to the first significant large-volume commercial transaction for each commodity — ie, the manufacturer's or other producer's selling price or the selling price on an organized exchange or at a central market. The weights used in the index represent the total net selling value of commodities produced or processed in this country. Values are fob (free-on-board) production point and are exclusive of excise taxes.
Page 4 - The US population is classified according to mobility status on the basis of a comparison between the place of residence of each individual at the time of the survey or census and the place of residence at a specified earlier date. Nonmovers are all persons who were living in the same house or apartment at the end of the period as at the beginning of the period.

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