Publisher's Synopsis
This easy-to-use, alphabetically-arranged dictionary serves as a guide to current sources of factual quantitative information on more than 20,000 specific subjects, incorporating almost 100,000 citations and more than 2000 sources. The reference provides the widest possible range of print and nonprint, published and unpublished, and electronic and other forms of US and international statistical data on industrial, business, social, educational, financial and other topics. Three appendices help the user pinpoint data sources, including Internet and World Wide Web addresses.