Census Catalog and Guide

Chapter 24

 

From this chapter:

The Census Catalog and Guide: 1996, the 50th edition of the publication, is both a comprehensive catalog and a substantial guide to the programs and services of the Census Bureau. As a catalog, it describes or lists the products (such as reports and machine-readable files) issued from mid-1993 through 1995. Those issued since 1995 appear in the Monthly Product Annoucement (see Recommended Supplement"). Readers interested in Census Bureau products issued from 1988 through 1993 should refer to Census Catalog and Guide: 1994, which provides a generally complete record of those years. The Census Catalog and Guide: 1996 also includes a number of features, such as a chart on product series in the "Product Overview" chapter and an extensive "Sources of Assistance" appendix. Chapter introductions provide key information about the censuses, surveys, and other programs that are the sources of data products described in the chapters. Most products are organized by subject into such chapters as agriculture, business, and foreign trade; but a special section combines references for the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, which is particularly useful for marketing research.




Census Catalog and Guide