No. 1253. PUERTO RICO-BUSINESS SUMMARY: 1958 AND 1963 Represents zero. NA Not available. 1 Workweek ended nearest Nov. 15. Includes data not shown separately. Includes lottery agencies and horserace betting agencies. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Puerto Rico Census of Business: 1963, Bulletin BC63-PR (in cooperation with Puerto Rico Planning Board). Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Censuses of Business, Manufactures, and Mineral Industries: 1983, EC 63-2. X Not applicable. Includes 3 establishments classified as mining. Includes motion picture theaters. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Censuses of Business, Manufactures, and Mineral Industries: 1965, EC 63-1. FIG. LIII. AREA AND POPULATION-UNITED STATES AND LEADING COUNTRIES: Source: Chart prepared by Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Data from Statistical Office of the Section 33 Comparative International Statistics This section presents summary statistics on the industrial, social, and agricultural organization of the various nations and on finances of international agencies. The principal source for the data presented in this section is the United Nations Statistical Yearbook. Statistics of the individual nations may be found primarily in official publications, generally in the form of yearbooks, issued by most of the nations at various intervals in their own national languages, expressed in their own or customary units of measure. For handier reference, especially for international comparisons, the Statistical Office of the United Nations compiles and issues a number of international summary publications, generally in English and French. Among these are the Statistical Yearbook, the Demographic Yearbook, the Yearbook of International Trade Statistics, the Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics, Population and Vital Statistics Reports (quarterly), the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, The Growth of World Industry: National Tables, 1938-1961, and The Growth of World Industry: International Analyses and Tables, 1938-1961. are the For foreign agricultural and labor statistics, the outstanding sources Yearbook of Food and Agricultural Statistics, issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, issued by the International Labour Office; both are specialized agencies of the United Nations. These publications usually present data covering an extensive period of time, frequently up to 20 years. The International Population Statistics Reports, Series P-90 and P-91, issued by the Bureau of the Census, also present population figures for many foreign countries. Statistical coverage.-Problems of space and availability of data limit the number of countries and the extent of statistical coverage shown here. The list of countries included is based on, but not limited to, the membership rosters of the United Nations and of the larger specialized agencies of the United Nations (see table 1283). In a few instances, member countries were omitted because of an almost complete lack of data. The items selected for presentation here are believed to be among those most significant. However, certain important items, such as those on national income, are omitted because of the inability to convert the available statistics, stated in terms of the national currencies, to meaningful consistency in United States measures. OECD, EEC, and EFTA.-The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), a regional grouping of Western European countries established in 1948 for the purpose of harmonizing national economic policies and conditions, was succeeded on September 30, 1961, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD consists of the member nations of the former OEEC-Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany (Federal Republic), Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom-and also Canada and the United States. The European Economic Community (EEC), or "Common Market," consisting of Belgium, France, Germany (Federal Republic), Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, was formed in 1958 for the purpose of promoting European economic integration. It is based on agreement among the member nations to stimulate their economic growth, primarily through the gradual elimination of trade barriers among themselves, the establishment of a common external tariff, the coordination of monetary, fiscal, and agricultural policies, and the removal of restrictions on movement of services, labor, capital, and business enterprises within the community. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA), established in late 1959, consists of Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It represents an agreement among the member nations to promote free trade and cconomic cooperation in Europe through gradual elimination of tariffs and quotas among themselves but without establishment of a common external tariff. Quality and comparability of the data.—The quality and the comparability of the data presented here are affected by a number of factors: (1) The year for which data are presented may not be the same for all subjects for a particular country, or for a given subject for different countries, though the data shown are the most recent available. All such variations have been noted. The data shown are for calendar years except as otherwise stated in headnotes or footnotes. Space limitations made it impracticable to present the data for a series of years except for population, indexes of per capita product, agriculture, and gold and foreign exchange holdings. (2) The bases, methods of estimating, methods of data collection, extent of coverage, precision of definition, scope of territory, and margins of error may vary for different items within a particular country, and for like items for different countries. Footnotes and headnotes to the tables give a few of the major timeperiod and coverage qualifications attached to the figures; considerably more detail is presented in the source publications. Many of the measures shown are, at best, merely rough indicators of magnitude. (3) Figures shown in this section for the United States may not always agree with figures shown in the preceding sections. Disagreements may be attributable to the use of differing original sources, a difference in the definition of geographic limits (conterminous United States only, or including Alaska and Hawaii or certain outlying areas and possessions), or to possible adjustments made in the United States figures by the United Nations in order to improve their comparability with figures from other countries. Conversion factors. To facilitate comparison in terms of familiar units, items shown in metric units in the source have been converted to U.S. equivalents by means of the conversion factors given in the Statistical Yearbook and shown below. Additional conversion factors appear in Appendix I, Weights and Measures, pages 945 and 946. |