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- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
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Grumblings Persist Over Demise of Statistical Abstract
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Grumblings Persist Over Demise of Statistical Abstract
By Charles S. Clark
September 2, 2011
Government Executive
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0911/090211cc2.htm
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Late this month, the 131st edition of the Statistical Abstract of the
United States is scheduled for release. It will be the final installment
of the paper edition of the fact-packed government annual, a planned
casualty of the current budget austerity that stands only a slight chance,
sources say, of winning a reprieve when Congress tackles appropriations
this fall.
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The abstract, the Census Bureau's compendium of some 1,400 neatly aligned
data tables on economics, demographics and geography, has been published
almost every year since 1878. Since President Obama's budget came out in
February, the plan to discontinue it -- offered reluctantly by the Census
director and the Commerce Department -- has ruffled feathers among
librarians, historians and journalists.
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While the data will continue to be gathered and made available in various
locations online, critics of the decision to kill the hardbound and
paperback editions, which are sold by the Government Printing Office, the
National Technical Information Service and some private vendors, say ease
of usability will suffer.
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Complaints from fans of the Statistical Abstract have not faded.
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"In the next months and years, we will stumble across countless examples
of good government coming to grief," Robert Samuelson wrote in an Aug. 29
Washington Post column pleading for the abstract to be saved. "Budget
pressures will force cutbacks and cancellations. Many will be desirable
and overdue: programs that don't work, have outlived their usefulness or
favor the undeserving. But some will represent valuable activities that
were reluctantly or foolishly eliminated to meet budget targets."
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In May, the American Library Association and the Association of Research
Libraries sent letters to the House and Senate appropriations committee
asking them to support continued funding for the Statistical Compendia
Branch. "ARL and ALA believe that the loss of these important resources,
in a time of striving for greater government transparency, is a step
backward," they said. "It is a mistake to end usable access to this
information without a plan in place to ensure that the public has another
way to locate it."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Learning to Live Without a Statistical Abstract
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learning-to-live-without-a-statistical-abstract
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