Statistical Abstract of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992

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Page 557 - A Btu is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit (F) at or near 39.2 degrees F.
Page 35 - Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race. Source: US Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports.
Page 333 - The purpose of the reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency...
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Page 64 - The total fertility rate is the number of births that 1 ,000 women would have in their lifetime if, at each year of age. they experienced the birth rates occurring in the specified year. A total fertility rate of 2,110 represents "replacement level" fertility for the total population under current mortality conditions (assuming no net immigration).
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Page 8 - 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 direct access from the outside or through a common hall.
Page 356 - In addition, the sample included persons in the Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post. CPS Estimation Procedure. This survey's estimation procedure inflates weighted sample results to independent estimates of the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States by age, sex, race and Hispanic/nonHispanic categories.
Page 462 - Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices among cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
Page 333 - Reserve forces (Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve).

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