This Catalog/Guide contains

• Product overview and indexes

Abstracts of products since mid-1988 • Directories of sources of assistance • Descriptions of Bureau programs

• Information on other Federal data reports

It can help you—

• Learn what is available
• Choose the right products
• Order the product you want

• Understand Bureau statistical programs • Obtain assistance and training

Principal Parts of the Catalog/Guide

1. "Introduction" and "Product Overview" chapters-the former giving basics about obtaining data products and special services; the latter briefly describing each product series and giving the abstract number for more information.

2. Chapters on such subjects as business, foreign trade, and population, each with information about data products issued by the Census Bureau mid-1988 through December 1992.

3. A title index and a subject index.

4. A "Sources of Assistance" appendix that lists thousands of data specialists and organizations offering guidance, reference resources, processing, and other services to users. It also includes a section describing key reports from other Federal statistical agencies and a section listing participants in the Federal-State population estimates program.

Understanding the Abstracts

The Catalog/Guide describes publications, computer tape files, and other products using abstracts like the annotated one shown below. In each chapter, the abstracts are generally arranged by Census Bureau program or series. If an abstract describes a product that is new-a neverbefore-issued product, a new edition of an earlier product, or a series or periodical for which one or more new items have appeared-the word "New!" will appear immediately before the abstract number. Previously announced products are not labeled in this way and also have "Cited in the 1992 Catalog" following their title.

This edition of the Census Catalog and
Guide was prepared by the Data Access
and Use Branch (DAUB), under the guid-
ance of Marie G. Argana, Assistant Chief
for User Services. Deborah Barrett, Chief,
DAUS, provided overall direction. Gary M.
Young, Chief, User Publications Section,
supervised the project and contributed to
the writing and editing. John McCall coor-
dinated and assisted in the preparation of
the chapters and indexes. Barbara Hatchl,
Mary Kilbride, and Michael A. Wolfson
assisted in such activities as abstract prepa-
ration and updating, appendix preparation,
and data entry work flow. Data entry sup-
port was provided by Karen Johns and
Mary Thomas. Marjorie Nicolas assisted
in price and availability checking.

The staff of Administrative and Publica-
tions Services Division, Walter C. Odom,
Chief, provided publication planning,
editorial review, design, composition, and
printing planning and procurement.

Subject-matter specialists who assisted
in the review of materials found in this
Catalog include Tom Manning, Sharon
Powers, and Debbie Norton, Agriculture
Division; Janis Byrd, Business Division;
Donna M. Dove, Center for International
Research; William Mittendorf, Construc-
tion Statistics Division; Alan Blum,
Economic Census and Surveys Division;
Haydn Mearkle, Foreign Trade Division;
Donald Hirschfeld, Geography Division;
Diana Cull, Governments Division;
F. John Devaney, and other staff mem-
bers, Housing and Household Economic

Library of Congress Card No. 85-644573
GPO Catalog No. C3.163/3

SUGGESTED CITATION

United States. Bureau of the Census.
Census catalog and guide. 1985-

:

Statistics Division; Michael Zampogna,
Bruce Goldhirsch, Judy Dodds, Thomas
Flood, Steve Andrews, Elinor Champion,
John McNamee, and Kenneth Hansen,
Industry Division; and Linda Showalter
and other staff members, Population
Division.

Washington U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by the Supt. of
Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985-