MAIN CATEGORIES:
 1. Population
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9. State and Local Government
Finances and Employment
10. Federal Government
Finances and Employment
11. National Defense and
Veterans Affairs
12. Social Insurance and Human
Services
13. Labor Force, Employment,
and Earnings
14. Income, Expenditures, and
Wealth
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Insurance
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Information Technology
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21. Transportation - Land
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and Water
23. Agriculture
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Services
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29. Outlying Areas
30. Comparative International
Statistics
31. Industrial Outlook
32. 1997 Economic Census
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324. Libraries--Number, by Type
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TYPE
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1980
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1985
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1990
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1991
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1992
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1993
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1994
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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Total 1
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31,564
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32,323
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34,613
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35,130
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35,825
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36,445
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37,042
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36,980
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37,258
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37,414
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37,519
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United States
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28,638
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29,843
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30,761
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31,167
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31,850
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32,414
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32,625
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32,441
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32,666
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33,004
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33,108
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Public
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8,717
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8,849
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9,060
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9,075
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9,076
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9,097
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9,123
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9,101
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9,165
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9,767
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9,815
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Public branches
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5,936
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6,330
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5,833
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5,873
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6,093
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6,215
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6,223
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6,172
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6,205
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6,332
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6,435
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Special 2
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7,649
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7,530
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9,051
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9,348
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9,811
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10,149
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10,059
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10,192
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10,282
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9,983
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9,898
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Medicine
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1,674
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1,667
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1,861
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1,861
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1,893
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1,925
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1,922
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1,929
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1,982
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1,924
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1,900
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Religious
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913
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839
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946
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955
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981
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1,011
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1,008
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1,032
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1,042
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1,019
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1,010
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Law 3
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417
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435
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647
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665
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1,124
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1,140
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1,150
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1,146
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1,155
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1,123
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1,153
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Academic
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4,591
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5,034
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4,593
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4,613
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4,620
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4,619
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4,914
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4,684
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4,730
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4,707
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4,700
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Junior college
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1,191
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1,188
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1,233
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1,237
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1,256
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1,255
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1,261
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1,261
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1,262
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1,265
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1,270
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Colleges, universities
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3,400
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3,846
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3,360
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3,376
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3,364
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3,364
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3,653
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3,423
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3,468
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3,442
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3,430
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Departmental
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1,489
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1,824
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1,454
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1,472
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1,459
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1,455
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1,666
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1,482
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1,491
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1,466
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1,452
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Law,
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medicine,
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religious
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269
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531
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501
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495
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496
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495
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495
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491
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491
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489
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491
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Government
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1,260
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1,574
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1,735
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1,773
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1,776
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1,871
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1,864
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1,864
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1,875
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1,837
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1,897
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Armed Forces
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485
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526
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489
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485
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474
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463
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442
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428
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409
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378
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363
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Outlying areas
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113
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114
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110
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(NA)
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(NA)
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(NA)
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(NA)
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110
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NA Not available.
1 Includes Canadian libraries, and libraries in regions administered by the United States, not shown separately. Data areexclusive of elementary and secondary school
libraries. Law libraries with fewer than 10,000 volumes are included only if they specializein a particular field.
2 Includes other types of special libraries, not shown separately. Increase between 1985 and 1990 is due mainly to revised criteria for identifying special libraries and
improved methods of counting.
3 Increase beginning 1992 due to increased effort in identifyingspecial libraries.
Source: R.R. Bowker Co., New Providence, NJ, The Bowker Annual: Library and Book Trade Almanac and American LibraryDirectory, annual. (Copyright by Reed Elsevier Inc.)
http://www.bowker.com/
https://allcountries.org/uscensus/324_libraries_number_by_type.html
These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.
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