No. 1349. FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES, BY COUNTRY: 1971 [National currency units per U.S. dollar. As of December 31. Except as indicated, represents mid-point rates, which are averages of selling and buying rates. Selling rates are rates at which monetary authorities and authorized banks sell foreign exchange against payment in national currency. Buying rates are rates at which the authorities and banks buy foreign exchange from those obtaining it. Free market rates are rates which fluctuate in response to purchases and sales of foreign exchange by private individuals] Source: Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, N.Y., Statistical Yearbook. (Copyright.) No. 1350. UNITED NATIONS COUNTRY AND CERTAIN SPECIALIZED AGENCIES-MEMBER ASSESSMENTS: 1973-Continued X Not applicable. 1 Miscellaneous income and adjustments to prior year budgets. 2 Nonmember. 3 Inactive members. Source: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, unpublished data. 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 |