Section 33 Statistics for Federal Administrative Regions and States This section presents statistics for the ten standard Federal administrative regions (SFAR's) and their component States as officially designated by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (Circular No. A-46, Transmittal Memorandum No. 16, August 1972). In a directive issued in 1969, President Nixon instructed various Federal agencies (among them the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Labor, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the Small Business Administration) to adopt a uniform field system of ten geographic regions with common boundaries and headquarters cities. The President's action was taken to correct the development over a period of many years of a fragmentation of Federal field organization structures, as each agency or component evolved along its own lines with little reference to other agency arrangements. As a result of the President's directive, most Federal domestic agencies or their components have completed realignments and relocations to conform to the SFAR's shown here. In February 1972, President Nixon issued Executive Order 11647 establishing a Federal Regional Council for each of the SFAR's in further implementation of "the development of closer working relationships between major Federal grant making agencies and State and local governments and improved coordination of the categorical grant system." Reprints of this section of the Statistical Abstract and section 34, Metropolitan Area Statistics, may be obtained under the title of "Statistics for Federal Regions, States, and Metropolitan Areas" from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C., 20402, or from any U.S. Department of Commerce District Office. The price per copy is 85 cents; a 25 percent discount is allowed on orders of 100 copies or more sent to the same address. 835 No. 1344. COMMUNICATIONS-TELEPHONES, TELEGRAMS, MAIL, NEWSPAPERS, RADIO, AND TELEVISION, BY COUNTRY: 1971-Continued [See text, p. 800, for general comments concerning the data. For additional qualifications for individual countries, see source] Represents zero. NA Not available. 1 Comprises public and private telephones installed which can be connected to a central exchange. World total in 1971 estimated at 291.3 million. 2 Comprises generally all types of telegrams including cablegrams and radiograms, but excludes messages in transit. 3 Items mailed for distribution within national territories. Comprises letters, postcards, printed matter, merchandise samples, small packets, and phonopost packets. Includes mail carried without charge, but excludes ordinary packages, and insured letters and boxes. Publications containing general news and appearing at least 4 times a week; may range in size from a single sheet to 50 or more pages. Circulation data include copies sold outside the country. Data cover estimated number of receivers in use, except as noted, and apply to all types of receivers for radio broadcasts to the public, including loudspeakers connected to a radio "redistribution system" but excluding television sets. Estimated number of sets in use, except as noted. 7 Excludes Hawaii. Includes messages to and from Canada, Mexico, St. Pierre and Miquelon. Domestic and foreign, including ordinary packages as well as insured letters and boxes. English dailies only. 16 For 9 dailies only. 17 For 1966. 20 Includes foreign received and sent. 24 Includes Faeroe Islands and Greenland. 14 For 152 dailies only. 33 For 15 dailies only. 34 For 11 dailies only. 37 Year ending Sept. 30. 38 For 18 dailies only. 35 For 1964. 36 For 58 dailies only. 39 Revenue telegrams, excluding those transmitted exclusively over railway telegraph lines. 40 Includes Liechtenstein. Source: Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, N. Y., Statistical Yearbook. (Copyright.) Defense Expenditures-Military Personnel 829 No. 1345. National DefenSE EXPENDITURES, 1968 TO 1971, and Armed Forces PERSONNEL, 1968 To 1972 [Personnel data as of July; regular forces, except as noted] NA Not available. 1 Defense expenditure as percent of gross national product valued at market prices. Estimated range from 10 to 16 billion dollars. 3 At free rate of exchange, 500 Kip=$1. Royal-Lao forces only. Pathet-Lao forces number about 36,000. Includes 350,000 in Strategic Rocket Forces, not shown separately. Change in exchange rate used to calculate dollar equivalent. Excludes reservists. At U.S. prices. Source: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England, The Military Balance, 1970-1971, 1971-1972, and 1972-1973. (Copyright.) 494-860 O-73-54 ww No. 1346. TOTAL MILITARY SHIPS, 1970 AND 1972, AND BY TYPE: 1972 - Represents zero. 1 Includes river gunboats, motor launches, motor patrol craft, boom defense vessels, netlayers, training ships, and miscellaneous, not shown separately. 2 Survey depot, repair, maintenance, and supply ships; transports; oilers; and tugs. Includes Coast Guard. Partially estimated. Source: McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, N. Y., Jane's Fighting Ships 1972-73, edited by Raymond V. B. Blackman. (Copyright by Jane's Fighting Ships Publishing Co. Ltd., London, England.) Source: U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bulletin. No. 1348. GOLD AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE HOLDINGS, BY COUNTRY: 1970 AND 1971 [In millions of U.S. dollars. Data refer to gross holdings of gold and short-term foreign assets of central banks, treasuries, exchange stabilization funds and other official institutions as of end of year, except as noted] Excludes gold used in payment of a country's subscriptions to International Monetary Fund or International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Reported in U.S. dollars at $38 per ounce. 2 Foreign exchange holdings ordinarily include foreign currencies, bank deposits abroad, payment and clearing agreement balances, and short-term foreign bills and securities (generally those with an original maturity of 1 year or less) and, in those instances where information is available, foreign investments held by official institutions. Excludes subscriptions to International Monetary Fund, drawing rights in the European Payments Union or the European Fund, undrawn portions of foreign loans, and similar rights to incur foreign debts. Holdings have been converted into U.S. dollar equivalents at par value or, in absence of a par value, at official exchange rate. Source: Statistical Office of the United Nations. New York, N.Y., Statistical Yearbook. (Copyright.) |