An Atlas of U.S. Economy, Technology and Growth, is designed to give you a detailed view of the size, characteristics and growth of all individual state and county economies in the United States, their comparative strengths and weaknesses, their growth dynamics and future prospects. You can use the detailed information provided in the 409 state and county maps, organized by subject material, to relate, at a glance, data for different subjects for any geographic area, or to compare detailed characteristics of different areas across the United States. You can follow up on the insights and leads gained from maps by referring to county and state data tables which list in full the actual data for each of the more than 220,000 data items graphed in the maps. The Atlas addresses the growing need in business and education for improving understanding of economic geography and of changes in individual local economies. A self-contained reference source, the Atlas. provides basic economic information for employment, population, households, income, resources, and growth patterns:

Population: by age, sex and race; birth, death, international, and domestic migration rates; educational attainment; occupational characteristics Employment: by industry, type of employer; earnings. Personal income: per capita; per household; sources; absolute and percent changes; relative to the U.S. Science and technology base of regional economies: graduate science and engineering education by field; R&D by sector; residence of inventors; patenting by product field; output of technology-intensive industries. Also, housing economics and government spending. For intensive research on these subjects, a self-con-tained interactive CD-ROM A Geographic Database for U.S. Economy, Technology and Growth is offered as a companion publication to the Atlas. In addition to the 398 series listed and mapped in the Atlas, it contains all the underlying data of the Atlas and many additional related data items for a total of 928 state and county data series that contain 705,000 geographic data items. Both publications are very accessibly priced with a special $125 saving for the purchase of both.

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