Dictionary of Economic and Statistical TermsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 83 pages |
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account measures changes accrual affiliates balance of payments balance-of-payments basis Bureau of Economic capital consumption allowances capital flows Census central city classified Compensation of employees Cont'd Corporate profits cost debit deposits disbursements earnings Economic Analysis excluding military expenditures exports Federal Reserve System fees and royalties fixed investment foreign currencies foreign governments foreign official agencies free alongside ship funds Gross national product household housing units Income and Product indicators industries line 34 liquidity balance long-term manufacturing ments merchandise military grant monthly National Income Nonliquid Liabilities official reserve assets passenger fares period population Private Foreigners Product Accounts receipts rental repayment reported by U.S. reserve agencies retail sector shipments short-term special drawing rights statistics tion transactions Treasury Department U.S. banks U.S. dollars U.S. Government U.S. military U.S. nonbanking concerns U.S. parents U.S. private U.S. residents wages and salaries
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Page 66 - Except in the New England States, a standard metropolitan statistical area is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county or counties containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are...
Page 65 - A household consists of. all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment, or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there Is either (1) direct access from the outside or through a common hall or (2) a kitchen, or cooking equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.
Page 64 - According to the current definition, the farm population consists of all persons living in rural territory on places of less than 10 acres yielding agricultural products which sold for $250 or more in the previous year...
Page 63 - Employed persons comprise all civilians 16 years old and over who were either (a) "at work"— those who did any work at all as paid employees or in their own business or profession, or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (b) were "with a job but not at work...
Page 63 - ... all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management dispute, or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid by their employers for the time off, and whether or not they were seeking other jobs.
Page 63 - Also included as unemployed are those who did not work at all, were available for work, and (a) were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off; or (b) were waiting to report to a new wage or salary job within 30 days.
Page 66 - ... twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county, or counties, containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are essentially metropolitan in character and are socially and economically integrated with the central city.
Page 69 - Urbanized areas. — The major objective of the Bureau of the Census in delineating urbanized areas was to provide a better separation of urban and rural population in the vicinity of the larger cities, but individual urbanized areas have proved to be useful statistical areas. They correspond to what are called "conurbations
Page 66 - other married, spouse absent" includes married persons employed and living for several months at a considerable distance from their homes, those whose spouses were absent in the Armed Forces, in-migrants whose...
Page 63 - ... in kind, or at piece rates for a private employer or for any governmental unit. Self-employed workers are persons working in their own business, profession, or trade, or operating a farm, for profit or fees. Unpaid family workers...