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• Business and Economics contains information on employment, unemployment, industry and occupational wages, occupational projections, construction and real estate (including housing prices and foreclosures, and non-residential vacancy rates), inflation, foreign trade, retail and taxable sales, sales tax rates, gross state product, personal and per capita income, farm income, and airport operating statistics.
• Population and Demographics contains U.S., California, county, and city population estimates, including population estimates by race, ethniticy, and age for most areas. It also includes population projections, border crossing and immigration statistics, and vital statistics.
• Education covers public and private Kindergarten through college schools in California. It includes enrollment, enrollment projections, test scores, class size, student and teacher demographics, teacher salaries, district finances, and other data. Many of the databases are searchable by zip code.
• Community includes a number of "quality of life" measures, such as crime rates, traffic, population density, and tax rates.
• Health and Socioeconomic covers public assistance programs, such as TANF (welfare), Medi-Cal, SSI, and Medicare.
• Government summarizes federal, state, and local expenditures in California. This link includes tax rates, R&D spending, and govenment employment.
• Census reports a number of categories from the 1990 Census, such as educational attainment, language spoken at home, median household income, and poverty levels.
• Politics and Public Opinion reports Statement of Vote (election returns from the Secretary of State) and other political and public opinion statistics.
• Energy and Environment reports electricity generation and consumption, oil and gas sources, air quality, toxic gases and metals, gas emissions and estimated water usage.

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