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Per Capita Consumption of Major Food Commodities: 1980 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0205)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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.

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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. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures,

Food Availability( Per Capita) Data System.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/FoodConsumption/FoodAvailIndex.htm

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures,

Food Availability( Per Capita) Data System.

For more information:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/FoodConsumption/FoodAvailIndex.htm

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

Usage Notes

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Rights Info

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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. Excludes edible offals.
  2. Excludes shipments to Puerto Rico and the other U.S. possessions.
  3. Milk-equivalent, milk-fat basis. Includes butter.
  4. Fluid milk figures are aggregates of commercial sales and milk produced and consumed on farms.
  5. Includes eggnog, not shown separately.
  6. Heavy cream, light cream, and half and half.
  7. Excludes full skim American, cottage, pot, and baker’s cheese.
  8. Includes other cheeses not shown separately.
  9. Includes rye flour and barley products not shown separately. Excludes quantities used in alcoholic beverages.
  10. Dry weight. Includes edible syrups (maple, molasses, etc.) and honey not shown separately.
  11. Includes glucose and dextrose not shown separately.

Headnotes

[In pounds, retail weight, except as indicated. Consumption represents the residual after exports, nonfood use and ending stocks are subtracted from the sum of beginning stocks, domestic production, and imports. Based on Census Bureau estimated resident population]

Shape

table: [81, 11]

Snippet

Commodity Unit 1980 1990 1995 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-0.225416509314 -0.2460628788 0.0864843166752 -0.176701298149 0.189030207234 -0.372320446399 -0.246554970656 -0.150361508913 -0.000747423636131
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-1.26356235125 -1.22461240697 -1.27612696825 -1.46671304591 -1.29005084011 -1.40762129788 -1.39381245885 -1.38015920775 -1.3674481517
Red meat, total (boneless, trimmed weight) 1 2 Pounds 126.427994991 112.204564534 113.565854633 113.679095736 111.387295933 114.037355204 111.640776348 112.00607594 110.034539519
Beef Pounds 72.0700573707 63.8951328117 63.5344597966 64.5424076317 63.1042270502 64.4988496493 61.9010489564 62.9218324164 62.3711149409
Veal Pounds 1.26075783178 0.891191211041 0.819768379746 0.54576454841 0.489750428453 0.484917046358 0.480054066963 0.412528452878 0.378709475153
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Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures,
Food Availability( Per Capita) Data System.

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

0205

Year

2008

History

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