Census Product Update

July 23, 2009

Economic Indicators

Housing Vacancies and Homeownership: Second Quarter: 2009. Press release showing rental and homeowner vacancy rates and characteristics of units available for occupancy. Scheduled for release July 24, 2009.

New Residential Sales: June 2009. Press release reporting new one-family houses sold and for sale. Includes sales prices, months on the market, and stage of construction. Scheduled for release July 27, 2009.

Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufactures' Shipments, Inventories and Orders: June 2009. Press release showing advance information on key business indicators. Scheduled for release July 29, 2009.

Construction Spending (Put-in-Place): June 2009. Press release showing estimates of the value of total new construction put-in-place by type of construction (residential and non-residential), annual value, and by type of owner (private and public). Scheduled for release August 3, 2009.

Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders: June 2009. Press release showing information on key business indicators. Shows revised durable goods totals, in addition to nondurable goods manufacturers' shipments, inventories, and orders. Scheduled for release August 5, 2009.

Economic Census and Surveys

Consolidated Federal Funds Report: 2008 and Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2008. These two reports provide an overview of federal spending at the national, state, and county levels. The data are obtained from federal agencies and describe spending for procurement contracts, salaries and wages, direct payments, loans and insurance, as well as federal grants to state and local governments.

2007 Business Expenses for Wholesale and Retail Trades. This supplement to the annual surveys of wholesale and retail trades provides detailed data on business operating expenses. Expense data, along with cost of goods sold and sales, is one of the key ingredients used by market researchers to develop a profit/loss analysis. This expense data covers such items as labor costs, expensed materials and supplies, purchased advertising, rent, utilities, and depreciation.

Quarterly Public-Employee Retirement Systems Survey: 1st Quarter 2009. This survey provides quarterly summary data on assets, revenue and expenditure of the largest public-employee retirement systems in the United States, which comprise about 85 percent of national activity among such entities. It provides the most current data about investment decisions by public employee retirement systems, which are among the largest types of institutional investors in the U.S. financial markets. These reports are published three months after each calendar quarter and show national financial transactions and trends for the past five years.

Governments

Public Education Finances: 2007. This report offers a comprehensive look at school district revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets. Highlights include spending on salaries, construction, support services, administration, and transportation. These figures allow users to examine per pupil expenditures, and compare federal, state, and local funding sources for public education systems by state.