State and Metropolitan Area Data BookU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1983 Contains data similar to that found in the County and City Databook, but on the state and MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Areas) levels. |
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Page xxxiv - dependent child" means a needy child under the age of sixteen, or under the age of eighteen if found by the State agency to be regularly attending school, who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent...
Page xvi - ... of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Energy Information Administration, Statistical Methods Group EI-73, 1000 Independence Ave.
Page lxxiii - This major group includes establishments furnishing point-to-point communication services, whether by wire or radio, and whether intended to be received aurally or visually; and radio and television broadcasting.
Page lxxvii - Development is the systematic use of the knowledge and understanding gained from research directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods, including design and development of prototypes and processes.
Page xlii - The manufacturing division includes those establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of inorganic or organic substances into new products, and usually described as plants, factories, or mills, which characteristically use power driven machines and materials handling equipment.
Page xxxv - 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...
Page xxxv - The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. Aggravated assault. — An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.
Page xxxiii - ... permanently and totally disabled at retirement. For this purpose, an individual is considered permanently and totally disabled if he or she is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death, or that has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
Page xxxv - Reports was made clear in 1929 by the Committee on Uniform Crime Records of the International Association of Chiefs of Police — to show the number and nature of criminal offenses committed. At the time it was argued that among the variety of official data, not only were "offenses known...
Page lii - Permanent inland water surface, such as lakes, reservoirs, and ponds having 40 acres or more of area; streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals one-eighth of a statute mile or more in width; deeply Indented embayments and sounds, and other coastal waters behind or sheltered by headlands or islands separated by less than 1 nautical mile of water; and Islands having less than 40 acres of area.