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Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities by Country: 2004 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1175)

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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,

Survey of Current Business, July 2007.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, http://www.bea.gov/

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,

Survey of Current Business, July 2007.

For more information:

http://www.bea.gov/

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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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. Includes foreign official holdings.
  2. Includes other countries not shown separately.
  3. With the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on January 1, 1979, the U.S. government
    recognized the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledged
    the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China.
  4. Comprises Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Headnotes

[In billions of dollars (1,813.6 represents $1,813,600,000,000).
Covers only private holdings of U.S. securities, except as noted. See also Table 1271]

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table: [60, 5]

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U.S. Treasury securities 1 2 Billion dollars 1813.55321306 1984.39175886 2115.01019242
Japan Billion dollars 684.344555479 659.063363352 633.44841819
China 3 Billion dollars 245.163854388 327.140647692 439.100059231
OPEC Asia 4 Billion dollars 48.1226301309 69.5246925589 96.3756969698
Belgium/Luxembourg Billion dollars 56.0901163336 62.8188157712 77.7034163369
Korea, South Billion dollars 56.7459121956 67.2372949114 67.590497268
Taiwan 3 Billion dollars 66.3407862574 66.3692390025 60.2847058992
Hong Kong Billion dollars 43.2763140773 40.4644089473 54.6220930302
Brazil Billion dollars 15.7627234216 28.9231021711 52.4938326013
Germany Billion dollars 41.6719965947 44.2155033077 43.6944151914
United Kingdom Billion dollars 51.6807826039 74.6879204093 36.5248922853
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Survey of Current Business, July 2007.

Tablenum

1175

Year

2008

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