Then Select Business Directories . Use the drop down menu to choose Official Guide to the American Marketplace . Contains tables and figures that examine access to technologies, budgets, capacities, consumption, costs, employment, funding sources, number of products on the market, number of units existing, penetration, popularity, prices, production, sales, trade, usage, values, etc. HA 694 A6 Gives a diversity of data on Washington, its people, economy and government. The data comes from state and federal agencies as well as private business.
Data are from many statistical publications, both government and private.
Sources are given. Service provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications since 1973, state and private sources since 1980, and about 2,000 documents from international organizations since 1983. Site maintained by Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. It is not always obvious which agency of the government produces statistics, for their responsibilities sometimes overlap.