Author Description

Designed for easy use, The American Marketplace gives readers a population profile of the United States in one handy volume. Its 255 tables are organized into nine chapters on education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending, and wealth. New to the sixth edition is analysis of data on volunteering and the work-at-home population. The expanded housing chapter includes data on appliance ownership and energy-use indicators. The chapter on the labor force shows the latest data on child and after-school care arrangements, while the health chapter provides new data on chronic conditions, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. New Strategist's own projections of the population by age, sex, and race to 2010 appear in the chapter on population.