The American Marketplace Demographics and Spending Patterns

Product Description Quick and easy access is the goal of the new 10th edition of The AmericanMarketplace: Demographics and Spending Patterns. Designed for convenience, The American Marketplace draws on scores of government sources to give you a population profile of the United States in one handy volume. Its hundreds of tables are organized into 11 chapters covering attitudes, education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending, time use, and wealth. This edition of The American Marketplace contains the latest attitudinal data from the recently released 2010 General Social Survey. The chapter on time use examines data from the 2009 American Time Use Survey. Plus, you get a look at new data onthe changing housing market and demographic profiles of who owns or rents theirhome. Also included are up-to-date income and labor force data and 2010 census dataprofiling the Asian, black, and Hispanic populations. Data in the spending chapterreveal how spending patterns are changing. Review The American Marketplace should be on your bookshelf. --The Wall Street JournalThe organization of the book is straightforward, and the index makes it easy for the user to locate needed data quickly. The type is clear and easy to read, and the charts and tables are well constructed for data clarity. . . This book is highly recommended. --American Reference Books Annual