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Key Global Telecom Indicators for the World Telecommunication Service Sector: 1995 to 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1353)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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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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
International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Switzerland, 2001. Reproduced with the kind

International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Switzerland, 2001. Reproduced with the kind

permission of ITU.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Switzerland, 2001. Reproduced with the kind http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/index.html

International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Switzerland, 2001. Reproduced with the kind

permission of ITU.

For more information:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/index.html

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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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. Revenue from installation, subscription and local, trunk and international call charges for fixed telephone service.
  2. Retail revenue.
  3. Including leased circuits, data communications, telex, telegraph, and other telecom-related revenue.
  4. Note that the data of the growing number of new market entrants are not always reflected in national statistics.
  5. Fixed telephone lines refer to telephone lines connecting a customer’s terminal equipment (e.g.
    telephone set, facsimile machine) to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and which have a
    dedicated port on a telephone exchange. Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants is calculated by dividing
    the number of fixed telephone lines by the population and multiplying by 100.
  6. From 1994 including traffic between countries of former Soviet Union.

Headnotes

[In billions U.S. dollars (779 represents $779,000,000,000), except as indicated. All data were converted by annual average exchange rates.
Country fiscal year data was aggregated to obtain calendar year estimates.]

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table: [20, 11]

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Telecom market total revenue .(billion dollars) 779 885 946 1015 1123 1210 1232 1314 1426 (NA)
Services 596 672 712 767 854 920 968 1039 1126 (NA)
Equipment 183 213 234 248 269 290 264 275 300 (NA)
Telecom telephone services revenue 1 .(billion dollars) 428 444 437 456 476 477 479 478 475 552
Other Services (billion dollars):
International 2 53 53 54 56 58 60 56 52 48 32
Mobile 78 114 142 172 223 278 317 364 414 454
Other 3 89 114 133 139 155 165 180 195 210 210
Telecom services capital expenditure .(billion dollars):
Total 4 161 174 177 177 186 198 201 205 215 190
Other statistics:
Main telephone lines (millions) 5 689 738 792 846 905 983 1053 1086 1140 1207
11=. … snip …
Source: International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Switzerland, 2001. Reproduced with the kind
permission of ITU.

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Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

1353

Year

2008

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