Facts for Features and Special Editions consist of collections of statistics from the Census Bureau's demographic and economic subject areas intended to commemorate anniversaries or observances or to provide background information for topics in the news.
That's a modest description of how awesome this particular Census Bureau is. And it is an archive, with individual releases dated back to January 2000.
If you're a reference librarian...or a school librarian...or a news librarian, you're well aware of the holiday calendar throughout the year. And you know that someone will always ask for information and statistics about a particular holiday or commemorative event. This site is one of those "Check Here First" resources, designed to save you time scrounging for this stuff on the Web or elsewhere.
Besides all of the popular holidays, there's also information here about lesser-known annual events, such as:
You can keep up with new releases of Facts for Features via RSS. Or if you're the old-school mailing list type, subscribe to the Census Bureau's news release list and you'll be alerted to Facts for Features releases as well as other Census Bureau news.
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