Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 741):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 60 rows and 26 columns.

Births represent an employing unit which is determined, for the first time, as meeting the definition of “employer” in the state unemployment compensation law or a previously terminated employing unit which again is deterined as meeting the definition of employer

Footnotes

1. Includes Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, not shown separately.
   Bankruptcy data also includes Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.
2. Data not comparable with prior years.