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No. 1465. Puerto Rico—Business Summary: 1972 And 1977

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D Withheld to avoid disclosure > For week including Mar. 12. 'Includes data not shown separately > includes drug proprietaries and druggists' sundries. * For 1972, excludes arrangement of pasaenger transportation, dental laboratories; legal services; engineering, architectural, and surveying servicesSource: US. Bureau of the Census. Census of Outlying Areas, netat Trade. Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service Indusfms. 1977. Puerto Rico, series OAC77-t.

No. 1466. Puerto Rico— Manufactures, By Industry: 1972 And 1977

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1 Average lor year. * See footnote 6. table 1337. a Represents net selling value, fob. plant. Excludes freight excise taxes. Includes extensive duplication arising from shipments between establishments m the same industry Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Censuses ol Outlying Areas, Manufactures, 1977. Puerto Rico.

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No. 1467. Puerto Rico—Merchandise Imports And Exports: i960 To 1983

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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States, annual; U.S. Trade with Puerto Rico and U.S. Possessions, FT 600; and unpublished data.

No. 1468. Puerto Rico And Guam—Agriculture: 1978 And 1982

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Cuerda in farms... 979,603

982,457

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31.1 99.3 122.8

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28.619

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Cucumbers

Watermelons..

Green beans..

Tomatoes

Cantaloups

Pineapples

Bittermelons..

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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1982 Census of Agriculture, vol. 1, parts 52 and 53.

No. 1469. Guam, Virgin Islands, And Northern Mariana Islands—Economic Summary: 1982

[Sales and payroll In millions of dollars]

— Represents zero. D Withheld to avoid disclosure ot information pertaining to a specific organization. 'For pay period including March 12. * Includes those who worked 15 hours or more during the week including March. 12. 3 Selected industries including travel agencies, dental labs; and legal, engineering, architectural and surveying services.

Source: U.S. Bureau ol the Census, 1982 Economic Census ot Outlying Areas, OAC 82-5 to OAC 82-7

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This section presents statistics for the world as a whole and for many countries on a comparative basis with the United States. Selected data are shown for area and population, births and deaths, social and industrial indicators, finances, agriculture, transportation and communication, and military affairs.

The principal sources for these data are the United Nations Statistical Yearbook and the U.S. Bureau of the Census annual publication World Population. Statistics of the individual nations may be found primarily in official national publications, generally in the form of yearbooks, issued by most of the nations at various intervals in their own national languages, expressed in their own or customary units of measure. For handier reference, especially for international comparisons, the Statistical Office of the United Nations compiles data as submitted by member countries and issues a number of international summary publications, generally in English and French. Among these are the Statistical Yearbook; the Demographic Yearbook; the Yearbook of International Trade Statistics; the Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics: Vol. II, International Tables; Population and Vital Statistics Reports (quarterly); the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics; and Energy Statistics Yearbook. Specialized agencies of the United Nations also issue international summary publications on agricultural, labor, and education statistics. Among these are the Production Yearbook and Trade Yearbook, issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Yearbook of Labour Statistics issued by the International Labour Office, and the Statistical Yearbook issued by the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

The Bureau of the Census, in Country Demographic Profiles, series ISP-30, presents data on individual countries for both a recent census year and the current period; and in the annual World Population series, estimates of basic demographic measures for countries and regions of the world. The International Population Statistics Reports, series P-90 and P-91, issued by the Bureau of the Census, also present population figures for many foreign countries. More detailed population statistics are also available from the Bureau of the Census' computerized data system, the International Data Base.

The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also compile data on international statistics. In its World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, published annually, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency presents data on various economic indicators, as well as basic military data. Among the topics presented have been military expenditures, gross national product, imports and exports, and armed forces, by region and/or country. The IMF publishes a series of reports relating to financial data. These include international Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, and Balance of Payments Yearbook, published in English, French, and Spanish.

Statistical coverage, country names, and classifications.—Problems of space and availability of data limit the number of countries and the extent of statistical coverage shown. The list of countries included is based almost entirely on a U.S. Department of State list of sovereign nations, dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty published by the U.S. Department of State in Status of the World's Nations. Country names are shown here as specified in that publication. In the few cases where a lack of comparability exists between State Department and United Nations' terminology, the State Department's preferences are used.

The countries and regions in tables 1472, 1473, 1475, and 1476 are classified as either "more developed" or "less developed," according to a regional classification system used by the Census Bureau in its World Population: 1984. The system is based on the assumption that, within regions, levels of such factors as industrial development, literacy rate, gross reproduction rate, per capita income, etc., are somewhat constant. "More developed" countries comprise Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Soviet Union, and those countries in Northern America and Europe. All others are "less developed".

Economic associations.—The Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), a regional grouping of Western European countries established in 1948 for the purpose of harmonizing national economic policies and conditions, was succeeded on September 30, 1961, by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The member nations of the OECD are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark. Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany. Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Yugoslavia in special status category.

Quality and comparability of the data.—The quality and comparability of the data presented here are affected by a number of factors:

(1) The year for which data are presented may not be the same for all subjects for a particular country, or for a given subject for different countries, though the data shown are the most recent available. All such variations have been noted. The data shown are for calendar years except as otherwise specified.

(2) The bases, methods of estimating, methods of data collection, extent of coverage, precision of definition, scope of territory, and margins of error may vary for different items within a particular country, and for like items for different countries. Footnotes and headnotes to the tables give a few of the major time-period and coverage qualifications attached to the figures; considerably more detail is presented in the source publications. Many of the measures shown are, at best, merely rough indicators of magnitude.

(3) Figures shown in this section for the United States may not always agree with figures shown in the preceding sections. Disagreements may be attributable to the use of differing original sources, a difference in the definition of geographic limits (the 50 States, conterminous United States only, or the United States including certain outlying areas and possessions), or to possible adjustments made in the United States figures by the United Nations or other sources in order to make them more comparable with figures from other countries.

International comparisons of national accounts data.—In order to compare national accounts data for different countries, it is necessary to convert each country's data into a common unit of currency, usually the U.S. dollar. The market exchange rates which are often used in converting national currencies do not necessarily reflect the relative purchasing power in the various countries. For example, using table 1482, it should not be concluded that Switzerland's individual standard of living in 1983 was 11 percent higher than that of the U.S., or that the United Kingdom's was 43 percent lower, as the statistics may imply. It is obviously necessary that the goods and services produced in different countries should be valued consistently if the differences observed are meant to reflect real differences in the volumes of goods and services produced. The use of purchasing power parities (see table 1483) instead of exchange rates is intended to achieve this objective.

The method used to present the data shown in table 1483 is to construct volume measures directly by revaluing the goods and services sold in different countries at a common set of international prices. By dividing the ratio of the gross domestic products of two countries expressed in their own national currencies by the corresponding ratio calculated at constant international prices, it is possible to derive the implied purchasing power parity (PPP) between the two currencies concerned. PPP's show how many units of currency are needed in one country to buy the same amount of goods and services which one unit of currency will buy in the other country. For further information, see National Accounts, Main Aggregates, volume I, issued annually by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France.

Conversion factors.—To facilitate comparison in terms of familiar units, some items shown in metric units in the source have been converted to U.S. equivalents by means of the abbreviated conversion factors shown below. Additional conversion factors appear on p. xfv.

Conversion Factors

Metric units U.S. equivalents

1 square kilometer 0.3661 sq. mile

1 metric ton (1,000 kilograms) 1.1023 short tons

1 hectolitre 26.4172 U.S. gallons

1 cubic meter 35.3147 cubic feet

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