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Federal Funds Data, Fiscal
1994-2001—Presents annual expenditures or obligations
for each Federal program and for each county and State.
The data include Federal expenditures and obligations
for grants, salaries and wages, procurements, direct
payments, direct loans, guaranteed loans, and insurance.
Natural Amenities Scale—Measures
the physical characteristics of a county area that enhance
the location as a place to live. The index was constructed
by combining six measures of climate, typography, and water
area that reflect environmental qualities most people prefer.
These measures are warm winter, winter sun, temperate summer,
low summer humidity, topographic variation, and water area.
The data are available for counties in the lower 48 States.
Creative
Class County Codes—The creative class thesis—that towns need to attract engineers, architects, artists,
and people in other creative occupations to compete in today's economy—may be
particularly relevant to rural communities, which tend to lose much of their
talent when young adults leave. The ERS creative class codes indicate a county's
share of population employed in occupations that require "thinking creatively." A
separate break-out of employment in the arts is also included. Data are provided
for all counties in the U.S. for 1990 and 2000.
Major
Land Uses—This data series contains estimates
for major land uses in the United States, by State, for
1945-2002. The series is the only consistent historical
accounting of major land uses, public and private, in
all 50 States. The latest inventory of U.S. major land
uses finds that total cropland area in 2002 was 442 million
acres, its lowest level since 1945. Several other classes and subclasses of land
are considered, including forest, pasture and range, urban, and miscellaneous
and special uses such as parks and recreational areas.
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