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 1144):

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 37 rows and 18 columns.

In percent. All dollar figures are adjusted to 2004 dollars using the “current methods” version of the consumer price index for all urban consumers published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Families include one-person units; for definition of family, see text, Section 1, Population. Based on Survey of Consumer Finance; see Appendix III. For definition of median, see Guide to Tabular Presentation

Footnotes

1. Percentiles of income distribution in 2004 dollars:
   20th: $18,900; 40th: $33,900; 60th: $53,600; 80th: $89,300; 90th: $129,400.
   Percentiles of distribution of net worth in 2004 dollars:
   25th: $13,300; 50th: $93,100; 75th: $328,500; 90th: $831,600.
   Percentile: A value on a scale of zero to 100 that indicates the percent of a
   distribution that is equal to or below it. For example, a family with income/net worth in
   the 80th percentile has income/net worth equal to or better than 80 percent
   of all other families.

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