The largest occupation recorded during the census was sales assistant with 93,840 people.
Each month Trulia's Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to "normal". We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR) and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate (LPS First Look).
When the Bureau called me the next day, I was thrilled at the prospect of trading door-to-door sales for door-to-door Census work.
We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR), and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate (LPS First Look).
In this post, I look at five measures of housing activity: search activity (Trulia), asking prices (Trulia), new construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR) and housing inventory (deptofnumbers.com).
The Census's monthly retail sales report does not adjust for inflation.
The 2000 census has provided their sales forces with detailed analyses of demographic data elaborating on the rapid growth of the Hispanic population, which increased to 12.5percentt of the total from 9percentt in 1990.
The census does not list sales by category of used merchandise, but antiques sold by auction -- that is much of high-end antique furniture or art purchases -- are excluded.
"We take census data, against real tracked-sales information, and then analyze the data with our customer so that [each store's meat case looks like] a store from the neighborhood," explains John Lea, Tyson boss for consumer fare.
ABC regulations allow for three liquor sale sites in the proposed store's census tract, according to a report by city senior planner Fred Buss, but five already exist — Alcorn Liquor, La Cañada Imports, Vons, Ralphs and Trader Joe's.
