The web links below will likely lead you to updated data that may be used in conjunction with a particular activity and/or project referenced by the data web icon in your textbook.
Be aware that the data you find may or may not be the same as that presented in tables in the text. Some data are collected in a census of the entire population while other data are found by surveying a sample from the population. Also, the manner in which data are collected may have changed over a period of several years (
e.g., information for Hawaii would not have been included with data for U.S. states prior to 1959).
Another reason for dissimilar data is that various sources may tabulate data differently. For example, one source listing the number of households with VCRs will include data for U.S. armed forces living abroad and another source may not.
Many of the references link you to the
Statistical Abstract. The 2000 (and possibly later)
Statistical Abstracts are easily searched from the referenced page by clicking on the letter of the alphabet corresponding to the suggested key search word(s).
