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EMBARGOED UNTIL: MARCH 10, 1995 (FRIDAY)
Public Information Office CB95-53
301-457-2794
301-457-4067 (TDD)
Glenn King
301-457-1171
CENSUS BUREAU CD-ROM PROVIDES
VAST DATABASE ON U.S. COUNTIES
EMBARGOED UNTIL: MARCH 10, 1995 (FRIDAY) The Commerce
Department's Census Bureau today released an extensive database
on CD-ROM for the nation's 3,141 counties, containing more than
2,840 data items from the Census Bureau and 15 other federal and
private agencies.
Titled USA Counties 1994, the CD-ROM product comes with
mapping software called Landview II. This enables users to
display on their computer screens thematic maps for more than
60 data items in counties.
"This is truly a unique CD-ROM product," said Glenn King,
chief of the Census Bureau's Statistical Compendia Branch. "With
it, reporters will be able to build quickly a statistical profile
of an area to go along with a breaking news story."
King also noted that the advent of government-developed
Landview mapping software on the disc will offer researchers,
planners, and other users a new way of visualizing statistics.
Included on USA Counties 1994 are data about age,
agriculture, ancestry, banking, business, construction, crime,
education, elections, federal government, local government,
Hispanic-origin, health, households, housing, labor force, and
employment.
Other data detail land area, manufactures, personal income
and earnings, earnings by industry, population, poverty, retail
trade, service industries, social insurance and human services,
veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to work.
Another feature of the product enables users to make
comparisons between 1980 and 1990 census data sets. The data
span for population stretches from 1960 to 1992; for personal
income and earnings from 1969 to 1990.
The long-awaited CD-ROM is a virtual electronic library of
statistical data for counties, and supplements such other
compendia products as the Statistical Abstract of the United
States and County and City Data Book, new editions of which are
scheduled for release on CD-ROM shortly.
USA Counties costs $150, including shipping and handling.
The Census Bureau will include a free copy of Statistical
Abstract of the United States 1994 on CD-ROM when USA Counties
1994 is purchased together with County and City Data Book 1994 on
CD-ROM (total price: $300). Statistical Abstract of the United
States 1994, when purchased alone, costs $50.
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Editor's note: EMBARGOED UNTIL: MARCH 10, 1995 (FRIDAY) all
orders should go to the Census Bureau's Customer Services Branch:
telephone: 301-457-4100; fax: 301-457-3842; or via the Census
Bureau's Gopher Internet node (gopher.census.gov).
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