Friday, December 15, 2006

[IWS] Census: STATISTICAL ABSTRACT of the UNITED STATES 2007 [15 December 2006]

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Statistical Abstract of the United States 2007 [15 December 2006]
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html


Press Release 15 December 2006
126th Statistical Abstract
Nearly Half of our Lives Spent with TV, Radio, Internet, Newspapers,
According to Census Bureau Publication
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/007871.html

     Adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours) next year watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to personal music devices. That's only one of thousands of nuggets of information on Americana and the world in the U.S. Census Bureau's < http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html> Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007, released today.

     "The Statistical Abstract is a collaborative effort that showcases our government statistics and the work of the international community, private industry and nonprofit agency researchers," said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon.

     According to projections from a communications industry forecast (Table 1110), people will spend 65 days in front of the TV, 41 days listening to radio and a little over a week on the Internet in 2007. Adults will spend about a week reading a daily newspaper and teens and adults will spend another week listening to recorded music. Consumer spending for media is forecasted to be $936.75 per person.

     The Statistical Abstract includes topics as diverse as condo and mobile home sales to new tables on alternative work schedules and the North American cruise industry. Overall, the book features more than 1,400 tables and charts on social, political and economic facts about the United States, and the latest available international statistics.


AND MORE....

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