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Population: 1900 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0002)

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About

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts. This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

Fields

nametypeunitstags
int:4 year year
int 1000 persons country persons
float pct_persons inv_year country rate:pct_persons-time
int 1000 persons country persons
int 1000 persons country persons

Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition) Washington, DC, 2007; http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php

U.S. Census Bureau,

Data for 1900 to 1935: http://www.census.gov/popest/archives/1990s/popclockest.txt

Data for 1940 to 1969:Current Population Reports. Population Estimates and Projections. Series p-25, No.802.

Data for 1970 to 1979: Current Population Reports. Population Estimates and Projec…

Usage Notes

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record. Some of our products, however, are special cases. [...] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns. The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

    The tables that were changed:

    0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231

  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Percent change from immediate preceding year.

Headnotes

[In thousands, except percent (76,094 represents 76,094,000). Estimates as of July 1. Prior to 1940, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Total population includesArmed Forces abroad; civilian population excludes Armed Forces. For basis of estimates, see text of this section]

Shape

table: [76, 5]

Snippet

Year Total Population (1,000) Percent change Resident population (1,000) Civilian population (1,000)
1900 (NA) (NA) 76094 (NA)
1905 (NA) (NA) 83822 (NA)
1910 (NA) (NA) 92407 (NA)
1915 (NA) (NA) 100546 (NA)
1920 (NA) (NA) 106461 (NA)
1925 (NA) (NA) 115829 (NA)
1930 (NA) (NA) 123077 (NA)
1935 (NA) (NA) 127250 (NA)
1940 (NA) (NA) 132457 (NA)
1941 (NA) (NA) 133669 (NA)
1942 (NA) (NA) 134617 (NA)
5=. ... snip ...
2005 296940.126 0.980944406691 296507.061 295316.207
2006 299801.097 0.963484133498 299398.484 298218.586

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.
  • (X) Not applicable.

Tablenum

0002

Year

2008

History

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