Data! Data! Data!

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.

H.G. Wells

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay!

Sherlock Holmes

The U.S. Census Bureau is terminating the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011. The Statistical Compendium program is comprised of the Statistical Abstract of the United States and its supplemental products - - the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. In preparation for the Fiscal Year 2012 (FY 2012) budget, the Census Bureau did a comprehensive review of a number of programs and had to make difficult proposals to terminate and reduce a number of existing programs in order to acquire funds for higher priority programs. The decision to propose the elimination of this program was not made lightly. To access the most current data, please refer to the organizations cited in the source notes for each table of the Statistical Abstract.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Now there is even less transparency in Government.   Cost cutting gone amuck!

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There are five kinds of lies:
Lies
Damned Lies,
Statistics,
Politicians quoting statistics,
and Novelists quoting politicians on statistics.

Stephen K Tagg