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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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

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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
Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright). http://www.schooldata.com/

Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

For more information

http://www.schooldata.com/

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

referenced on dataset section 2000 to 01 (#3)

Usage Notes

[none]

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. Includes estimates for schools not reporting number of computers.
  2. Distance learning programs as determined by respondents.
  3. For student instruction.
  4. Statistics based on responses to those indicating type of Internet connection.
    High speed includes Internet connection types: T1, T3, and cable modem.

Headnotes

[54,848 represents 54,848,000. Market Data Retrieval collects student use computer information
in elementary and secondary schools nationwide through a comprehensive annual technology survey
that utilizes telephone and Internet data methods]

Shape

table: [26, 10]

Snippet

Schools Schools with Schools with computers
with a distance learning Schools with with high speed
Level Total Number of wireless programs for laptop Internet Schools with
Total enrollment computers 1 Students per network students computers 3 access video-streaming
schools (1,000) (1,000) computer (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) 4 (percent)
U.S. total, 2005-06 114749 54848 14165 3.9 54.1582484641 19.0615593947 59.6915845462 84.3442048406 43.4214324001
Public schools, total 91977 49567 12914 3.8 54.4348615524 20.2950522015 60.0226963232 85.6831593282 45.0249659555
Elementary 53245 23805 5612 4.2 49.0897577964 11.17619123 55.3981320247 85.000791515 41.3249960424
Middle/junior high 14310 9376 2503 3.7 61.6275936405 15.6022635408 66.2085691188 85.8259229318 53.1662624629
Senior high 17282 14028 4067 3.4 64.0417457306 43.7618595825 67.8605313093 87.5237191651 50.3557874763
10=. … snip
Source: Market Data Retrieval, Shelton, CT, unpublished data (copyright).

Tablenum

0252

Year

2008

History

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