A national preference for sport utility vehicles is apparent from the 1997 US Census Bureau Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS) -- a data source on truck physical attributes and use in the US. Currently, reports on Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are posted with up-dates expected until...

The Census Bureau has recently released the fifth edition of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, which compares the nation's states and metropolitan areas in everything from banking and births to wages and welfare. Users can view a number of state and metro rankings tables in HTML or download the entire publication in .pdf format. The Data Book also serves as a guide to sources of data from...

Using the data collected from Wyoming business, this report shows that the cities of Casper and Cheyenne account for almost half of the 1997 receipts from that state's certified public accountants. Legal offices made up to one third of the "$388.8 million received by taxable firms in 1997 in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services sector of the state's economy." The information...