51.6 household-debt-service-payments-and-financial-obligations-as-a-p 1137 11 2 Table 1145 of the 2008 US Statistical Abstract 2010-03-11T08:42:12Z america,census,debt,demographics,financial,government,household,income,payments,percentage,personal,population,service 9 63 59 census-bureau 2008-04-04T12:00:00Z U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition) Washington, DC, 2007; "http://www.census.gov/statab/www/":http://www.census.gov/statab/www 1 http://www.census.gov/statab/www 2010-03-11T08:50:40Z philip-flip-kromer 2008-04-04T12:00:00Z Please add a description to this source. 2 http://infochimp.org/flip 2010-03-11T08:50:40Z The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the "US Census Department":http://www.census.gov/population/www/popdata.html as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns. 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 (this is table 1145): <pre> 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 </pre> This dataset consists of a table of 35 rows and 5 columns. As of end of year, seasonally adjusted. Household debt service ratio is an estimate of the ratio of debt payments to disposable personal income. Debt payments consist of the estimated required payments on outstanding mortgage and consumer debt. The financial obligations ratio adds automobile lease payments, rental payments on tenant-occupied property, homeowners' insurance, and property tax payments to the debt service ratio 2008-04-04T12:00:00Z 11646 2009-09-22T04:30:11Z 2009-08-07T04:15:43Z From the "US Census bureau":http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ bq.. The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. p. The Infochimps repository contains the entirety of the 2008 Statistic Abstract, one dataset for each of its 1356 tables. Stock ownership rates, statistics on livestock, foreclosure frequencies -- you name it, it's in the Statistical Abstract. 3 This dataset was prepared by the government and is therefore in the public domain. There are no restrictions upon its use. 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z csv 6817 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-csv.zip zip 4301 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z csv 6818 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-csv.tar.bz2 tar.bz2 4301 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z yaml 6819 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-yaml.zip zip 5436 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z yaml 6820 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-yaml.tar.bz2 tar.bz2 5436 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z xls 6821 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-xls.zip zip 7720 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z xls 6822 infochimps.org -1 3409 http://infochimps.org/ics/data/pkgd/demographics/us/statisticalabstract/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin/statab2008_1145_HouseholdDebt_ServicePaymentsAndFin-xls.tar.bz2 tar.bz2 7720 2010-03-11T08:37:44Z