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President Ford today announced publication of the first issue of "Status", A Monthly Chartbook of Social and Economic Trends [Notice to Press]
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Digitized from Box 28 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
[7-1-76]
President Ford today announced publication of
the first issue of STATUS, A Monthly Chartbook of
Social and Economic Trends.
STATUS is a document of tremendous positive
potential, the President said. "It encompasses the output
of up to 20,000 Federal statisticians, reduced to chart
form, and covering the critical domestic statistics of
all aspects of American life -- economic, social and
political.
"For the first time, this information will
be made available to the American people in one consolidated
publication. Up to now, most of this material has been
issued through numerous separate departmental and agency
publications."
The publication had its crigin a year ago when
major Federal statistical agencies began to prepare a
selection of computer-drawn charts as a briefing reference
at the request of the President and the Vice President.
"I was so impressed with the usefulness of the
material being produced that I decided, if these facts
were available to the American people and distributed
throughout the Federal Government on a monthly basis,
both the public and the whole Government would mutually
benefit," the President said.
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"STATUS will encourage ... broader use of
statistics by systematically bringing together critical
domestic information from all Federal agencies and
expressing it in clear and easily understandable chart
form," the President added.
Included in the first issue of STATUS are charts
covering such standard indicators as the gross national
product, employment and unemployment, personal income,
and the consumer price index. In addition, there are charts
and tables showing U.S. population projections, labor
turnover, characteristics of women, housing trends, criminal
justice expenditures, and voter participation in elections.
A special 15-page bicentennial feature in the
first issue reviews historical U.S. statistics on population,
agriculture, employment and other subjects from Colonial
times to the present.
In order to compare developments here with those
in other industrialized countries, comparative data on
selected items such as unemployment and prices are also
being included.
The new magazine has been designed for the general
public as well as for a broad audience of decision- and
policymakers in all fields. STATUS is not intended for
the exclusive use of the professional statistician or
economist.
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The first three monthly issues available in July,
August, and September will be sold as single issues (at
$3.60 each), and may be ordered from Subscriber Services
Section (Publications), U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Washington, D.C. 20233.
Although the Bureau of the Census has the
responsibility of preparing the magazine for publication
each month, the contents are selected with the aid of two
committees ---- a technical committee and a smaller editorial
committee established by the Office of Management and Budget.
The editorial committee consists of representatives from
the following Federal agencies:
-- Department of Agriculture: Economic Research
Service and Statistical Reporting Service.
-- Department of Commerce: Bureau of the Census
and Bureau of Economic Analysis.
--- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare:
National Center for Educational Statistics,
National Center for Health Statistics, and
Social Security Administration.
--- Department of the Interior: Bureau of Mines.
-- Department of Justice: Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration.
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-- Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
-- Department of the Treasury: Internal Revenue
Service.
- Federal Energy Administration.
---- Federal Reserve System.
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