Statistical Abstract of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - United States
 

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Page 457 - GNP can be viewed in terms of expenditure categories which comprise purchases of goods and services by consumers and government, gross private domestic investment, and net exports of goods and services. The goods and services included are largely those bought for final use (excluding illegal transactions) in the market economy.
Page 369 - 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...
Page 494 - 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 354 - tax expenditures" means those revenue losses attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability; and the term "tax expenditures budget" means an enumeration of such tax expenditures.
Page 396 - employee welfare benefit plan" and "welfare plan" mean any plan, fund or program which was heretofore or is hereafter established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization, or by both, to the extent that such plan, fund, or program was established or is maintained for...
Page 6 - 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 369 - Reserve forces (Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve).
Page 515 - FDIC supervises state-chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System and insures deposits at banks and savings and loans.
Page 460 - The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Page 494 - The CPI-U includes in addition to wage earners and clerical workers, groups which historically have been excluded from CPI coverage, such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, shortterm workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force. The current CPI is based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists

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