The statistical history of the United States from colonial times to the present.

United States Bureau of the Census. (Author). Social Science Research Council (U.S.) (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: print
xxiv, 789 pages illustrations 26 cm
Publisher: Stamford, Conn., Fairfield Publishers; distributed by Horizon Press, New York [1965]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Up-dated edition, containing two reference works prepared by 125 distinguished scholars under the direction of the U.S. Bureau of the Census with the cooperation of the Social Science Research Council: Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1957, published 1960, and Continuation to 1962 and revisions, published in 1965."

"A companion volume to U.S. deskbook of facts & statistics."

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments for chapter contributions -- Source notes for continuations and revisions -- Cross-reference index to statistical abstract -- Introduction -- Corrections -- A. Population -- B. Vital statistics and health and medical care -- C. Migration -- D. Labor -- E. Prices and price indexes -- F. National income and wealth -- G. Consumer income and expenditures -- H. Social statistics -- J. Land water and climate -- K. Agriculture -- L. Forestry and fisheries -- M. Minerals -- N. Construction and housing -- P. Manufactures -- Q. Transportation -- R. Communications -- S. Power -- T. Distribution and services -- U. Foreign trade and other international transactions -- V. Business enterprise -- W. Productivity and technological development -- X. Banking and finance -- Y. Government -- Z. Colonial statistics.